Jonathan Bank, artistic director of the Mint Theater Company, discusses his company’s 2007-08 season. It features two plays written by authors who are much better known as novelists rather than playwrights: Leo Tolstoy’s The Power of Darkness, which opens in September; and Ernest Hemingway’s The Fifth Column, which opens in early 2008.

Jonathan talks about both plays at length, and provides a lot of background about the development and production histories of both. The Hemingway drama — the only play by the great American writer — is about his own experiences during the Spanish Civil War.

Jonathan touches on the Mint’s exemplary publishing program as well: they’ve put together several collections of plays that they’ve “rediscovered” by authors such as Schnitzler, St. John Hankin, and Harley Granville-Barker.

Episode Links:

• Mint Theater Company website
• The Power of Darkness info on nytheatre.com

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