John Blondell, 蜜桃传媒 theater arts professor, reveals how he developed and directed a world premiere play last summer in Macedonia at a free lecture, 鈥淎nother Fool in the Balkans,鈥� Friday, Sept. 18, in 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 Porter Theatre at 3:30 p.m.
Blondell will discuss how he co-wrote 鈥淎n American Tune鈥� with Jeton Neziraj, artistic director of the National Theatre of Kosovo in Prishtina, and staged at the Bitola National Theatre in August. The play is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald鈥檚 famous novel, 鈥淭he Great Gatsby.鈥�
鈥淲hen the rights to the novel proved too difficult to obtain,鈥� Blondell says, 鈥淛eton and I wrote a show inspired by the novel. The talk will discuss this labyrinthine past, how I came to write most of the show, and some of the cross-cultural and aesthetic challenges of its staging in Macedonia this past summer.鈥�