Past participants include Aharon Appelfeld, David Ferry, Margot Livesey, and Jayne Anne Phillips. Epstein, who will emcee the event, says that in addition to introducing each reader, he plans to call attention to other resources the Creative Writing Program offers that are not represented at the annual reading. They're not in the program, so they're not invited. But the great thing about BU is that they do teach, and a lot of our students take their courses. There are these great unseen presences, and they're part of what makes our program as fine as it is.
Admission is free, and the event is open to the public.
His plays are filled with robust action, songs, and verse. To create this year's project, Eves has taken portions from A Midsummer Night's Dream, which she has set in contemporary New York, along with selections from Richard II and Richard III, Cleopatra, and Macbeth, and connected them through songs, sonnets, dances, fights, and instrumental interludes. She has been aided by Judith Chaffee, associate professor of theater movement, who choreographed the dances, and Robert Walsh, teaching associate in movement, who coordinated the fight scenes. She plans to stage her own adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities in February and to codirect Brecht's Happy End with Roger Croucher, director of the Theatre Arts Division, in the spring. As well, Eves believes Shakespeare's works have a universal appeal.