The Curious Lives of Shakespeare and Cervantes
Asa Palomera
The Curious Lives of Shakespeare and Cervantes
Asa Palomera
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Description
This comic romp through the lives of literary masters William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes charts their influence on the modern world. It contrasts the fortunes of two contemporaries whose native countries' - England and Spain - went from alliance to enmity in a short space of time.
There is a chemistry at work which transcends expectations...an engaging and hilarious 90-minute performance. THE EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS “this well-charted account of key events in each of their lives moves at a relentless pace ... dynamic narration...the audience never loses touch.” “The private lives of creative geniuses have long fascinated literary groupies in search of clues about where inspiration comes from... Asa Gim Palomera's restless piece of imagined history [treats] the two writers as equals with an awful lot in common, despite the age gap that nevertheless saw both men shuffle off this mortal coil within 11 days of each other.” Herald
Asa Palomera is a Korean/American playwright and director. Trained at New York’s TISCH School of the Arts, she started her theatre career both on and off Broadway under the producer Joseph Papp. As an artistein-residence at the Chulalongkorn University of Thailand, she pioneered the Pagoda Dance Company. She also established the Modern Theatre Company in Thailand, before expanding the company to Costa Rica and New York. After moving to Melbourne, she started both the Spiral Theatre Company and the Women of Asia Company that produced Monologues and The Prodigal Daughter which won the ‘City of Melbourne Award for Original Play’ and was invited to open at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Curious Lives of Shakespeare & Cervantes was produced in a short run at Edinburgh’s Adam House Theatre and then at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London in 2010 before returning to Asia. It was staged in association with the Embassy of Spain, the British Council (Singapore) and the National Library Board of Singapore.
There is a chemistry at work which transcends expectations...an engaging and hilarious 90-minute performance. THE EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS “this well-charted account of key events in each of their lives moves at a relentless pace ... dynamic narration...the audience never loses touch.” “The private lives of creative geniuses have long fascinated literary groupies in search of clues about where inspiration comes from... Asa Gim Palomera's restless piece of imagined history [treats] the two writers as equals with an awful lot in common, despite the age gap that nevertheless saw both men shuffle off this mortal coil within 11 days of each other.” Herald
Asa Palomera is a Korean/American playwright and director. Trained at New York’s TISCH School of the Arts, she started her theatre career both on and off Broadway under the producer Joseph Papp. As an artistein-residence at the Chulalongkorn University of Thailand, she pioneered the Pagoda Dance Company. She also established the Modern Theatre Company in Thailand, before expanding the company to Costa Rica and New York. After moving to Melbourne, she started both the Spiral Theatre Company and the Women of Asia Company that produced Monologues and The Prodigal Daughter which won the ‘City of Melbourne Award for Original Play’ and was invited to open at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Curious Lives of Shakespeare & Cervantes was produced in a short run at Edinburgh’s Adam House Theatre and then at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London in 2010 before returning to Asia. It was staged in association with the Embassy of Spain, the British Council (Singapore) and the National Library Board of Singapore.