(Photo credit: Cory Weaver) The West Coast premiere of “The Handmaid’s Tale“, by composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley fills the War Memorial Opera House with a performance as harrowing as the dystopic story itself. Delayed by the pandemic from its originally scheduled debut, the co-production of San Francisco Opera (SFO) and the Royal Danish Theatre runs through October {…}
Despite the weighty subject matter and current human rights issues at hand, Glow Lyric Theatre’s 2023 Festival production of Poul Ruders and Paul Bentley’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” held nothing back. The curtains open to display “Under His Eye,” one of the aphorisms used by the patriarchal, totalitarian, dystopian Republic of Gilead, at center stage. Other tenets such as “Blessed be {…}
Glow Lyric Theatre is set to present “The Handmaid’s Tale” on July 28, 2023. The production by the South Carolina-based company will be part of the organization’s 2023 Festival season, which kicks off on July 21, 2023 and runs through August 6, 2023. The opera, which is based on Margaret Atwood’s famed novel and features a libretto by Paul Bentley {…}
