India Abroad
03-24-2006
Salman Rushdie has had great ambitions with his novel Haroun and the Sea of
Stories, written shortly after Ayatollah Khomeini's infamous fatwa against
him. At one point Rushdie wanted former Monty Python actor Terry Gilliam to
direct an animated film based on the book.
The film project never took off, but Haroun made it to the theater, written
for the stage by Tim Supple, at London's National Theater. Later Supple
co-wrote the stage script for Midnight's Children with Rushdie himself. And
in the fall of 2004, the New York City Opera staged Haroun, based on a
score written by the American composer Charles Wuorinen, and a libretto by
British poet and journalist James Fenton.
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