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Tuck Everlasting Is a Family-Friendly Musical about Ordinary Life versus Immortality

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:June 11, 2016
Post category:Children's Literature Literature Theater Reviews

Tuck Everlasting is a musical about an eleven-year-old girl named Winnie Foster (Sarah Charles Lewis) who longs to escape her house and have adventures. She gets her wish when she meets her mysterious neighbors, the Tuck family. The Tucks need to keep moving around and separating because they all drank water from the spring in their woods, which makes them immortal. They can survive gunshots and other attempts to kill them. But most humans perceive the Tucks as weird, distrust them, and persecute them. This musical questions our assumption that eternal life is desirable. (more…)

Two New One-Act Plays by by Award-Winning Playwright Jordan Tannahill in Toronto

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 10, 2016
Post category:Literature Theater Reviews

Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom, two one-act plays by Jordan Tannahill in their world premieres, are currently being performed by Canadian Stage at the Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto. Tannahill has won the Governor General’s Award. Both new plays are modern retellings. Botticelli in the Fire focuses on a segment of the life of the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. Sunday in Sodom retells the story of Lot’s wife in Genesis. The Berkeley Street Theatre is a small theater in a remodeled factory building. (more…)

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.