Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the novel [Anthem], and half have not read it. That is interesting. — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Who can I marry? Where can I live? What kind of career can I achieve? These are just some of the stories breaking with… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories. — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage. — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium. — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre for an… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
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