The Left Hand of Darkness on Stage

Extended through 9 June 2013

Tickets

• Theater review: The Left Hand of Darkness on Stage finds deeply human love on a cold, blue world, by Marty Hughley, The Oregonian

  6 May 2013

• Review: Hand2Mouth and Portland Playhouse Tackle Left Hand of Darkness, by Aaron Scott, Portland Monthly

  15 May 2013

• Adapting Le Guin: Theater and Sci Fi, Together at Last, by Alison Hallett, Portland Mercury

  8 May 2013

• Theater Review The Left Hand of Darkness, by Rebecca Jacobson, Willamette Week.

  8 May 2013

• Review: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness at Portland Playhouse, by Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly

  6 May 2013

• Adapting The Left Hand of Darkness for the stage meant breaking the ice with author Ursula K. Le Guin, by Marty Hughley, The Oregonian.

  5 May 2013

• “Putting The Left Hand of Darkness on stage,” an interview with UKL by Dave Miller at Think Out Loud. [MP3 download]

  3 May 2013

• Dmae Roberts, Stage and Studio, KBOO radio, interviews UKL, director Jonathan Walters, and actor Damian Thompson about the forthcoming stage play of The Left Hand of Darkness. [MP3] [SoundCloud]

  2 May 2013

• Degender Bender, by Rebecca Jacobson, Willamette Week.

  2 May 2013

• Hand2Mouth Theatre and Portland Playhouse team up to take on classic tale The Left Hand of Darkness on Stage, by Marty Hughley, The Oregonian

  2 May 2013

• Hand2Mouth Theatre and Portland Playhouse Team Up to Tackle a Sci-Fi Classic, by Ben Waterhouse, Portland Monthly Magazine.

  2 May 2013

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The Seeds of Love
(a British folk song)

I sowed the seeds of love

and I sowed them in the spring,

in April and in May time

when the small birds do sing.

In June is the red rose bud

and that’s the flower for me.

I pulled and plucked at the red rose bud

till I gained the willow tree.

For the willow tree will twist

and the willow tree will twine.

I wish I was in a young man’s arms

who had this heart of mine.

My gardener he stood by

and told me to take good care,

for in the middle of the red rose bud

there grew a sharp thorn there.

I told him I’d take no care

until I felt the smart,

for I pulled and plucked at the red rose bud

till it pierced me to my heart.

—British Folk Song

Here’s the tune, and some same some different words:
The Seeds of Love

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New on the Website

& New Offsite Links

• The Left Hand of Darkness on Stage

  6 May 2013

• Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #28

  5 May 2013

• Men Read Jane Austen, Stephenie Meyer, and Ursula K. Le Guin, by Noah Berlatsky, The Atlantic

  30 April 2013

• Review of Patrick Ness’s The Crane Wife, by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian.

  21 April 2013

• Review of Jo Walton’s Among Others, by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian.

  15 April 2013

• These Mountains that Divide, poetry reading, Sunday, 21 April 2013, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Milepost 5, Portland OR. Facebook event

  11 April 2013

• Schedule update: Portland Playhouse and Hand2Mouth Theater present a new stage adaptation of The Left Hand of Darkness, 2 May-2 June 2013

  10 April 2013
  

• The 25 Books Every Kid Should Have on Their Bookshelf (A Wizard of Earthsea), at flavorwire.com

  9 April 2013

• “Little and Big: a story about a town,” by UKL at Upper Left Edge, 5 April 2013

  9 April 2013

• New photos: Ursula and Chaos at the Sigma Tau Delta Convention, Portland, Oregon, March 21, 2013

  9 April 2013

• Blogging for a Good Book reviews Finding My Elegy.

  8 April 2013

• Schedule update: Seattle, The Dalles

  19 March 2013

• Le Guin on the art of elegy, blogging and hearing the sea , Watt Childress, The Oregonian

  17 March 2013

• Update: Short Biography

  7 March 2013

• “World Without Imperialism ,” by Noah Berlatsky

  7 March 2013

• New publicity photos from Laura Anglin

  2 March 2013

• The Real and Unreal: Ursula K. Le Guin, American Novelist — A major essay by Julie Phillips (author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon)

  2013 Featured link

• Updates: Short biography, Major Titles PDF [Printer-friendly PDF, 60Kb, Updated January 2013], Bio, Bio PDF, audiobooks, audio downloads and “Read by the Author.”

Offsite Links of Current Interest

• Alert to NWU members and other writers: Is your work about to be given away by France?

  7 May 2013

• The Country That Stopped Reading, by David Toscana, New York Times

  6 March 2013

• Google Again — The National Writers Union, Dramatists’ Guild, Romance Writers of America, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and others have filed an amicus brief with the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals, supporting class-action litigation against Google for the massive copyright infringement involved in scanning whole libraries of books without ascertaining their copyright status. http://www.nwu.org/nwu-files-amicus-against-google-scanning-project

  17 February 2013