I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when I began working in the theater. So, I have written… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
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
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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