Sunday Feature: Art Babayants on staging The...Musician. An Étude
Performing Half-Blind: Staging The ... Musician. An Étudeby Art BabayantsIn March 2011, I approached the novella The Blind Musician by the noted Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko (1853-1921) in an attempt to transform it into a stage production. Korolenko's novella is full of powerful descriptions of how a congenitally blind boy experiences the world, encounters people, nature and especially music. The boy goes t…