In this second volume of Blackstone’s audio theater production of An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, a full cast of award-winning narrators present miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. Based on Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb and featuring Elizabethan songs and dances in new arrangements for stringed instruments, this original audio recording is a Skyboat Road Company production, conceived, adapted, and produced by Stefan Rudnicki for Blackstone Audio, Inc.
MUSIC: Willow Song by Emily Janice Card
OTHELLO read by Mirron Willis
SOLILOQUY: Othello read by Mirron Willis
KING LEAR read by Yuri Rasovsky
SCENE: “Blow Winds...” read by Yuri Rasovsky, Lorna Raver
SCENE: Lear, Fool, Kent read by Stefan Rudnicki
MACBETH read by Harlan Ellison
TIMON OF ATHENS read by Robertson Dean
PERICLES read by Stefan Rudnicki
SCENE: Pericles, Marina read by Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card
CYMBELINE read by Don Leslie
THE WINTER’S TALE read by Gabrielle de Cuir
THE TEMPEST read by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
SOLILOQUY: Prospero read by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
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Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.
Mary Lamb (1764 –1847) was an English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb. She is best known today for her collaboration with Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare. She and Charles presided over a literary circle in London that included the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among others.
Charles Lamb is the author of the AL:ICE series of science fiction novels. He was raised in the Southwest, survived a tour of duty in the Pacific Northwest, and now resides in Florida with his wife and three dogs.