Review: (Winnipeg) Gone With the Wind

Meaghan Moloney and Miche Braden (photo: Bruce Monk)

Shadow-Boxing
by Edgar Governo

In the programme  accompanying the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's world première adaptation of Gone with the Wind, playwright Niki Landau discusses the process of asking herself why such an adaptation of the novel by Margaret Mitchell should be done. She concludes that the universal theme of survival in the original story continues to resonate with audiences around the world, calling out for a new adaptation that speaks to today's struggles and inequities, but I still find myself looking for a satisfactory answer to Landau's original question.

Sunday Feature: Steven Schipper on Gone With The Wind

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On Gumption and Defenses

by Steven Schipper, Artistic Director, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre

Here are two items: my remarks to the assembled cast, crew and staff at the “meet and greet” on the first day of Gone With the Wind rehearsal, and two samples of observations made by Dr Michael Eleff, a psychiatrist I consult about each play I direct.  

From GONE WITH THE WIND Opening Remarks

December 7, 2012

Margaret Mitchell said GONE WITH THE WIND is about survival, especially gumption.

For those of you who don’t know what gumption is, if you are here voluntarily, you have gumption.