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Tag Archives: Theatre

Episode 43: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

06 Saturday Apr 2013

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Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Literature, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare, Theatre, Writing Podcast

Episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, I talk to the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram,

Lillian Yvonne Bertram

Plus James Best discusses Gatsby.

James Best

Texts Discussed

Carlton Melton’s Photos of Photos.

Photos Of Photos

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

titus andronicus

Music for this week’s essay provided by Carlton Melton.

Daybreak

Princess Parizade

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Grrr: Amazon buys Goodreads.com.

The Tequila Worms have generously offered their album Cantina as a free download.

 Episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 42: Stephen Elliott, Isaac Fitzgerald, & The Rumpus!

29 Friday Mar 2013

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Burrow Press, Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Isaac Fitzgerald, Literature, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare, Stephen Elliott, stephen king, The Rumpus, Theatre, Titus Andronicus

Episode 42 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, I talk to Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of

 Stephen Elliot/Isaac Fitzgerald

plus Astrid Cook writes about Stephen King’s The Stand.

Astrid Cook

Texts Discussed

Happy Baby

The Adderall Diaries

About Cherry

Isaac Fitzgerald’s Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend.

The Stand

Things Fall Apart

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

titus andronicus

Music for this week’s essay provided by Zelda Re-orchestrated.

Chinua Achebe, Literary Titan, dies at 82.

Episode 42 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 39: Rick Moody!

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Homer, Literature, Memoir, Poetry, rick moody, Theatre, Writing Podcast

Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to Rick Moody,

Rick Moody

James Best explains why he isn’t afraid of sharks,

James Best

Plus I talk to the playwright and actor Charlie Bethel about his current one man show of The Odyssey.

Charlie Bethel's Odyssey

Texts Discussed

On Celestial Music

The Four Fingers of Death

DemonologyThe Ring of Brightest Angels

Notes

The Drunken Odyssey will be making a pub crawl in Boston this Friday.

AWP Conference

Episode 39 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

The Drunken Odyssey Attends The Odyssey

03 Sunday Mar 2013

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Last night The Drunken Odyssey (i.e., me (John King)) attended Charlie Bethel’s one-man performance of Homer’s The Odyssey at Orlando Shakespeare Theater.

Here is a review of the play for listeners in the Central Florida area.

The Odyssey is one king-hell of an adventure story, but the old, dusty translations and ancientness of the tale and the epic scope can make it seem like a really long, not always-engaging read (if you know Greek, which I sure don’t, perhaps you feel differently).  In this performance, Charlie Bethel makes the story deeply immediate and wildly fun both to hear and to watch.  This show is a masterpiece of both writing, translation, acting, stage setting, and all-around good theater.

Charlie Bethel's Odyssey

Seats start at $17, so if you were thinking of going to the movies in the next two weeks, spend just a little more and get an unforgettable piece of entertainment.  Get yourself to Orlando Shakespeare Theater to see this before it goes away on March 17th.

Episode 35: Philip F. Deaver!

09 Saturday Feb 2013

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Burrow Press, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, Literary Magazines, Literature, Poetry, Theatre, Writing Podcast

Episode 35 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk with my friend Philip F. Deaver, who happens to have won a Flannery O’Conner Award,

Philip Deaver and John King 3

plus Helena-Anne Htittel discusses Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.

Helena-Anne Hittel

Texts Discussed:

silent_retreats

How Men Pray

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The Kite Runner

Richard III

Notes

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series, Winter with the Writers.

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.  Get the Groupon here.

In other Shakespeare news, Richard III’s remains were found underneath a parking lot. I’m not making this up–it’s in The Times.

Episode 35 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 34: Stephen Burdman!

01 Friday Feb 2013

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Cinema, Creative Writing, Literature, Shakespeare, Theatre, Writing Podcast


Episode 34 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk Shakespeare with Stephen Burdman, the artistic director of New York Classical Theatre,

Stephen Burdman

New York Classical Theatre

Plus Bronte Bettencourt talks about Lestat.

Bronte Bettencourt

Texts Discussed:

HamletThe Vampire Lestat

Notes

Laurence Olivier’s screenplay adaptation of his never-filmed Macbeth has been found, according to The Guardian.

Barnes and Noble will be closing 20 stores a year for the next decade, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series,Winter with the Writers.

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

Episode 34 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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Episode 4: Comedy, Tragedy, and the Plight of the Preterit

30 Saturday Jun 2012

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Adam Walck, Literature, Shakespeare, Theatre, Writing Podcast

Episode 4 of is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This latest show features an interview with the mellifluous Kevin Crawford, of the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival.

Kevin Crawford as Macbeth

Plus Adam Michael Walk discusses Gravity’s Rainbow.

And John responds to mail.

Texts Discussed:

Episode 4 of is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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