reading on broadway, a photo by MarkelConnors on Flickr.
'Dickins found himself reading Plath at a very difficult time, five years ago. He was, he says, "so seriously sick, I nearly perished of hopelessness". Of all the treatment that he received, he adds, "nothing worked like reading".
He describes himself as "a slow reader and maybe too speedy a writer", but reading and re-reading Plath was a kind of saving grace. He found himself "reloving, if there is such a word, her poetry". On devising a play that builds on that experience, he says, "There's a way to write for someone, and not like them ..." '
from 'Theatre play a tribute to poet's talents: Plath's potent words find voice on stage', Philippa Hawker, The Age, 10 September 2013, p. 18
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/stage/plaths-potent-words-find-voice-on-stage-20130909-2tg5x.html
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/barry-dickins-is-back/3053296
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzkx6gfyUIk
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/best-and-worst-of-times-in-a-bleak-house-20120325-1vs7k.html
