Assassinating
Shakespeare – Confessions of a Bard in the Bush by
Thomas Goltz. Saqi Books, 2008. Read in April, 2013.
The
author of this book wrote a comment on Shakespeare Calling some time back and
mentioned that I might enjoy this. So I
read it. It is indeed very
interesting.
Young Goltz
left his Midwestern American home in 1976 for a road trip around Africa looking
for his brother. It took him a long time
and on the trip he encountered many situations which demanded all the ingenuity
he could muster. Among his most fruitful enterprises were his street
performances of Shakespeare’s plays across the continent which led to
everything from prison to large theatres to schools in Botswana, South Africa,
Rhodesia, the Kalahari and Zambia.
It’s
funny and fascinating and a very unusual read.
Thank
you, Thomas Glotz!
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