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Reaching For The Moon (English) / Flores Raras (Portugese) (2013)
This 2013 dramatic romance chronicles Elizabeth Bishop’s years with her lover and friend Lota de Macedo Soares. It stars Miranda Otto as Elizabeth Bishop and Gloria Pires as Lota Soares.
Prizes and Awards:
Winner of the Audience Award, Outfest 2013
Winner of the Audience Award, Frameline 2013
Official Selection, Berlin International Film Festival
Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival
IMDb Rotten Tomatoes: 65%
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Ruhl, Sara. Dear Elizabeth. 2012. Yale Repertory Theater.
A stage adaptation of letters written between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, broken into two acts:
Act 1
Part One: Water
Part Two: Come To Yaddo
Part Three: Brazil
Act 2
Part One: Skunk
Part Two: Art just isn’t worth that much
The play was bound and printed in 2014 as Dear Elizabeth: A Play In Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again and distributed by Faber and Faber, Inc.
Google Books Amazon (also available on Kindle)
Reaching for the Moon
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Reaching For The Moon (English) / Flores Raras (Portugese) (2013)
This 2013 dramatic romance chronicles Elizabeth Bishop’s years with her lover and friend Lota de Macedo Soares. It stars Miranda Otto as Elizabeth Bishop and Gloria Pires as Lota Soares.
Prizes and Awards:
Winner of the Audience Award, Outfest 2013
Winner of the Audience Award, Frameline 2013
Official Selection, Berlin International Film Festival
Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival
IMDb Rotten Tomatoes: 65%
Dear Elizabeth
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Ruhl, Sara. Dear Elizabeth. 2012. Yale Repertory Theater.
A stage adaptation of letters written between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, broken into two acts:
Act 1
Part One: Water
Part Two: Come To Yaddo
Part Three: Brazil
Act 2
Part One: Skunk
Part Two: Art just isn’t worth that much
The play was bound and printed in 2014 as Dear Elizabeth: A Play In Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again and distributed by Faber and Faber, Inc.
Google Books Amazon (also available on Kindle)