Overture Magazine - 2015-2016 Season September-October 2015 | Page 10

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How did all this come about?
The idea for this, which really came about
after I did Midsummer, was combining the
Prokofiev ballet score with Shakespeare.
I first went through the Prokofiev score
—which is enormous — to see which elements went best with Shakespeare. Then
I went to Shakespeare to see what parts of
the text could be cut to help with meshing the two pieces. Then I came up with
a script that puts the two together. There
are sections where dialogue is acted on top
of Prokofiev, then sections where Prokofiev
and Shakespeare are on their own. The
combining of it creates a po