“The ambitious, genre-melding performances will begin in the spring of 2019, and include a musical series conceived by Steve McQueen and Quincy Jones and a collaboration between the poet Anne Carson, the actor Ben Whishaw and the opera singer Renée Fleming. A newly commissioned piece by Ms. Carson entitled “Norma Jeane Baker of Troy,” based on Euripides’ “Helen,” will be shown in the venue’s more intimate theater space. “I asked Anne, ‘Would you ever consider writing a dramatic monologue for a performer?’” Mr. Poots recalled. “Within six to nine months, she sent me the first draft and said: ‘I’ve written this for Ben Whishaw. And he’ll do it.’” Mr. Whishaw will perform it with Ms. Fleming.”
— https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/arts/design/the-shed-season-steve-mcqueen-and-quincy-jones.html
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