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This is the main location for both our multimedia clips and background on theatrical performances based on Hunger's Brides.
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Digital
video clips developed for use by the author at public readings.
The "web ready" versions of the original supporting DVD files are available on two separate pages.
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The Flash movies play at 30 frames per second and have terrific sounding
STEREO audio.
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sure or have a home Cable or ADSL connection. You can of course try the
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version.
The Flash movies play at 15 frames per second and have pretty good MONO
audio.
Multimedia
clip based on a sonnet by Sor Juana
The sonnet "Este que ves, engaño colorido..." interpreted by the celebrated Mexican actress (and celebrated friend) Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez.
TV
interview with the author.
Excerpts of the author and Random House Canada Publisher Anne Collins in conversation with Carolyn Weaver, host of Fine Print: Where books can take you. Fine Print can be seen on Book Television, Canadian Learning Television, Rogers Television, and The Biography Channel.
Staged
readings on the theme of music in the novel Hunger's Brides
Caracol, the voices of Hunger's Brides
An evening of multimedia and readings based on the theme of music, inspired by Sor Juana's lost musical treatise, Caracol. Excerpts from the script. Performed as a one-off at the Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival.
Lectern
theatre — theatrical adaptation and tour of Hunger's Brides
More on the One Yellow Rabbit tour to Mexico with an adaptation of Hunger's Brides.
Preface to the manuscript as "lectern theatre," by the authors Blake Brooker and Paul Anderson.
An old clip of handheld palmcorder footage (the audio reverbs like crazy to boot) of One Yellow Rabbit's Denise Clarke, Michael Green and Elizabeth Stepkowski performing a scene of lectern theatre in Sor Juana's convent, now a Mexico City university bearing her name.