Salman Rushdie and the Sea of Stories: the world-famous fabulist speculates about the innate theatricality of his richly imaginative novels.(Interview)
American Theatre, March, 2003 by Ahmad, Shazia
OME ARTISTS ARE BLESSED WITH OUTRAGEOUS HUMOR. Some artists are blessed with wonderful imagination. Some have extraordinary intelligence. Some have raw emotional power. And some seek in their work a kind of spiritual understanding of how the world works. It is extremely rare that those qualities are combined in one person." So spoke Berkeley Repertory Theatre artistic director Tony Taccone as he introduced the novelist Salman Rushdie to the audience of a special Berkeley Rep event in November.
While Rushdie is indeed a consummate literary man of our time, his own ...
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