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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Jim Milton, director of “Women and War” at Conkling Hall
Description: Director Jim Milton says he was attracted to theater because, being raised as a Cathoic, he found this Biblical phrase profound: “The Word was made flesh.”“To me, words are sacred,” Milton says in this week’s podcast. “Words are almost living things.”Milton, who lives in Tannersville in the Catskills, has adapted Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” and Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw” for the stage. He shortened Richard Wilbur’s translation of Molière’s “Tartuffe,” in iambic pentameter, by one-fifth, writing it in tetrameter instead.Milton is currently directing Jack Cunningh...