Chicago: ready for the close-up.(FRONT and CENTER)(Mary Zimmerman adapting novel Silk by Alessandro Baricco)(Interview)
American Theatre, April, 2005
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MARY ZIMMERMAN, THE CHICAGO-BASED auteur who has coaxed theatricality out of writers from Ovid to Leonardo da Vinci, now turns to Alessandro Baricco, Italian author of Silk, a sparse but passionate novel about a French traveler--and seller of silkworms--who finds forbidden love in Japan. Zimmerman's version runs at Chicago's Goodman Theatre April 23-May 29.
CHRIS PEPUS: Many will view this as a follow-up to your meditation on love in Metamorphoses. What new themes does Silk explore?
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