Richard Armitage Performs Romeo and Juliet: A Novel for Audible
December 06 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Bestselling Author David Hewson’s
Audio-Exclusive Reimagining of Shakespeare’s Romantic Tragedy is
Now Available for Download at Audible
Audible Studios, a production arm of Audible.com, today
announced the release of stage and screen actor Richard Armitage’s
heartfelt performance of David Hewson’s Romeo and Juliet: A Novel.
Hewson reimagined the world’s most famous love story exclusively
for Audible, and in it he plumbs both Shakespeare’s classic play
and its source material to produce a romantic, historical tragedy
told in modern English that takes listeners through Juliet’s search
for individual identity at a time when women were rarely treated as
though they had one. Armitage’s performance is now available for
download at audible.com/R&J.
“What David Hewson did with this script is so exciting to me,”
said Armitage, whose stage and screen credits include Berlin
Station, The Hobbit, and Hannibal. “I really love the fact that he
followed avenues that Shakespeare suggested but didn’t necessarily
detail in depth. If you want to immerse yourself in a warm bath of
Garganega and the heat of Verona and hear a brilliant story about a
young woman who is challenging the restraints of her time, listen
to this audiobook, which has romance, poetry, politics, and humor
to spare.”
“David Hewson’s novelization of Hamlet was the first audiobook
Richard Armitage ever performed for Audible, and he has since
become a narrator who delights our customers regularly with his
buttery, melodious tone and skilled pacing,” said Audible EVP and
Publisher Beth Anderson. “We are thrilled to pair Armitage and
Hewson once again for another memorable audio-original
production.”
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel, written by David Hewson and
A.J. Hartley, and performed by Richard Armitage, was chosen by
Audible members as Audible’s best audiobook of the year in 2014.
Armitage’s performance of Classic Love Poems, released on
Valentine’s Day in 2015, was one of the most downloaded audiobooks
on Audible that year, and the most downloaded poetry
collection.
With a 30-day membership trial at Audible, new listeners can
enjoy any one audiobook, including this performance of Romeo and
Juliet: A Novel, free.
In addition to Richard Armitage, among the acclaimed performers
who have narrated works of literature for Audible are Sean Penn,
Nick Offerman, Zachary Quinto, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins,
Emma Thompson, James Franco, and Jesse Eisenberg. In 2013, Audible
Studios won its first Grammy Award, for its production of Janis
Ian’s memoir Society’s Child, and also won the Audie Award for
Audiobook of the Year, for Colin Firth’s performance of Graham
Greene’s The End of the Affair.
Audible, the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable
audiobooks and other spoken-word content, invented and
commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has
since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook
download segment. Audible members downloaded an average of more
than 17 books over the course of the year. More than half of new
Audible members are first-time audiobook buyers.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio information and entertainment, offering customers a new way
to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible was created to
unleash the emotive music in language and the habituating power and
utility of verbal expression. Audible content includes more than
325,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers,
broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and
business information providers. Audible is also the preeminent
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Store.
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Audible.comEsther Bochner, 973-820-0781bochnere@audible.com
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