Hello Reader,

This year's Sundance hit Ghostlight is rolling out to cinemas across the US and Canada. To celebrate, I talked to the co-directors on the podcast.

A few years ago, Alex Thompson directed the wonderful Saint Frances, written by and starring Kelly O'Sullivan. The film was a wonderful thirtysomething coming-of-ager featuring a thoughtful abortion subplot. Despite premiering at SXSW, it felt like a Sundance film, only better than almost everything that had premiered at that level at Sundance that year.

Hoping to please Saint Frances fans, the pair (life partners, parents, and collaborators) have reteamed, this time as a directorial team, for Ghostlight, which O'Sullivan penned but does not appear in. She was busy directing the other actors!

The film is the story of middle-aged grief-stricken Dan who discovers theatre and Shakespeare are an excellent outlet for coping with his feelings and anger, which are starting to damage his family and his life.

In this episode, I sat down with Kelly and Alex to discuss the power of theatre, falling in love with Shakespeare, adapting Shakespeare for the screen, and why they wanted to tell this story.

The conversation is a continuation of our ongoing look at Shakespeare on screen.

​>>Listen to the Ghostlight episode <<​

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Happy listening and watching!

Best,

Alex

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