Irreverent Reverence or Playing with Shakespeare: An Interview with Saheem Ali
摘要
Valerie Clayman Pye shares an interview conducted with Saheem Ali, director of the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Fat Ham, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2023. In this conversation, they discuss Ali’s collaborations with playwright James Ijames, his process as a director, some of the pivotal moments of the play that are explored in the essays in this volume, and what it was like to move the New York production from the Anspacher Theater at the Public Theater to the American Airlines Theatre (now known as the Todd Haimes Theatre) on Broadway.