American playwright donates to save Shakespeare's daughter's house

The group which takes care of historic websites related to Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon has acquired a £1 million donation from Olivier-winning American playwright Ken Ludwig.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Belief (SBT), the world's main promoter of the works and lifetime of the English poet and playwright, can now cowl the price of main conservation work at Corridor's Croft, the house of Shakespeare's daughter Susanna and of her physician husband, John Corridor, who’s believed to have suggested his father-in-law on medical issues.

It’s the largest personal donation in its 177-year historical past, as reported in an article in “The Guardian” newspaper.

Ludwig, who has a ardour for Shakespeare, informed the Guardian that, whereas on a go to to Stratford, he felt he had to assist after listening to concerning the constructing's plight whereas being given a tour by Charlotte Scott, one in all SBT's administrators. “'How can we save the home as a result of it's actually falling aside?'” was the query posed by Scott. I replied, “How a lot wouldn’t it value to reserve it?” And I simply stated, 'I'll do it,'” the playwright stated.

Corridor's Croft, one of many final full examples of Jacobean structure, dates from 1613. Metal beams put in within the final century to assist the roof are sunk into the bottom. An extension added within the seventeenth century strikes away from the unique constructing, so the 2 elements lean in numerous instructions, the paper notes.

Ludwig has written 34 performs and musicals which were carried out in 30 nations. His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, gained two Tony Awards and was described by the Washington Submit as “one of many basic comedies of the twentieth century.” The theatrical adaptation of Agatha Christie's Homicide on the Orient Specific is on tour to 25 cities within the UK and Eire from September 6.

Supply: cnn.gr