Dara Weinberg is from Los Angeles and lives in Kraków, Poland. She writes poems and texts for performance. Her opera libretto PENNY, with music by Douglas Pew, premieres at the Washington National Opera in 2015. Website: darastrata.com.
This may come as a surprise, but probably only insofar that you didn't realize we hadn't written this yet. The cry of "we're alive!" has been made a few times, but it's time to say we're not.
While I found the cover off-putting for a handful of reasons, once inside I was caught in the flow of the narrative. Roberts realizes her players well, showing multiple sides to mythic characters, and the details she puts into this historical re-imagining of "The Epic of Gilgamesh" really bring the story to life.
