Do you have any thoughts or ideas about the show? Send us a text! Hello Creators, Ever meet a classic through its film cousins first? Join our final Guest Reader of 2025, trans voice actor Robyn McConnell, as she traces the surprising lineage between Treasure Planet and Muppets Treasure Island and the book that started it all—then slip into a soft, steady reading of Stevenson’s opening chapter. Robyn shares how adaptations simplify early stakes, why some versions erase Jim Hawkins’ father, ...
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Do you have any thoughts or ideas about the show? Send us a text! Hello Creators, Ever meet a classic through its film cousins first? Join our final Guest Reader of 2025, trans voice actor Robyn McConnell, as she traces the surprising lineage between Treasure Planet and Muppets Treasure Island and the book that started it all—then slip into a soft, steady reading of Stevenson’s opening chapter. Robyn shares how adaptations simplify early stakes, why some versions erase Jim Hawkins’ father, ...
Battling Giants and Windmills in Don Quixote Chapter 8
Sleepless Creatives
24 minutes
8 months ago
Battling Giants and Windmills in Don Quixote Chapter 8
Do you have any thoughts or ideas about the show? Send us a text! Hello Creatives, Windmills transform into fearsome giants through the eyes of our deluded knight in another captivating exploration of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, which has been beautifully adapted into plays, musical theatre and film performances many times since its first release. Today we'll be reading Chapter 8 — featuring perhaps literature's most iconic scene — where imagination and reality collide spectacularly. T...
Sleepless Creatives
Do you have any thoughts or ideas about the show? Send us a text! Hello Creators, Ever meet a classic through its film cousins first? Join our final Guest Reader of 2025, trans voice actor Robyn McConnell, as she traces the surprising lineage between Treasure Planet and Muppets Treasure Island and the book that started it all—then slip into a soft, steady reading of Stevenson’s opening chapter. Robyn shares how adaptations simplify early stakes, why some versions erase Jim Hawkins’ father, ...
