The Mountain Goats’ Musical Theatre Storytelling in ‘Jenny From Thebes’
Can the Mountain Goats’ uncompromisingly oblique and challengingly uncommercial Jenny From Thebes become a fully-staged Jennymusical?
Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien is an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University, in Newcastle, England, and the author of Now Here We Are Thirty Years Later: a podcast and newsletter about the Mountain Goats, available on Spotify and Substack. His poems have appeared in Subtropics, The Hudson Review and The Poetry Review, and his most recent publication is The Dolphin House, a chapbook released by Broken Sleep Books in 2021. Find him on Twitter/Bluesky @notrockyhorror.