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The Quarantine Chronicles: Home School from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A couple of overwhelmed Quebecois parents are caught off guard when their children make a power-play. A thriller by Governor General's Award winner Erin Shields.
ListenThe Quarantine Chronicles: Blue Rare from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A swanky restaurant invites a naive food reviewer to taste a truly rare dish. A humorous horror by Dora Award winner Kat Sandler.
ListenThe Quarantine Chronicles: Saving Grace from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A strained relationship between two sisters, who are separated by much more than a border. A family drama by Dora award winner Rosamund Small and Governor General Award winner Nicolas Billon.
ListenThe Quarantine Chronicles: Liming from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Travel to a distant future where Rihanna rules the world and people are mandated to socialize ... or else. A sci-fi by Secret Life of Canada co-host Leah-Simone Bowen.
ListenThe Quarantine Chronicles: Mizuko (Water Baby) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A couple at a lakeside cottage is haunted by a mysterious presence trapped between two worlds. A Japanese-infused horror story by Governor General Award winner Hiro Kanagawa.
ListenThe Quarantine Chronicles: Raking Light from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Deep within the Prado in Madrid, an art historian restores Velázquez's famous Las Meninas painting while society crumbles outside. A drama by Governor General Award winner Jordan Tannahill.
ListenThe Quarantine Chronicles: Don’t Get Me Startered from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A novice baker is gifted a sourdough starter with a mind of its own. An absurd comedy by Mark Crawford, 2020 nominee for the Leacock Medal for Humour.
ListenIntroducing: The Quarantine Chronicles — a special summer series from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
You hover on the edge of two realities. Behind you is the life you’ve always known, growing more distant with each passing hour. Ahead is a world you could never have imagined. This summer, PlayME ...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Sir John A: Acts of A Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion” (Interview with Drew Hayden Taylor) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura talks to Drew Hayden Taylor, who was visiting Toronto from Curve Lake First Nations. They talk about why he decided to tackle the daunting task of writing a comedy about Sir John A MacDonald,...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Sir John A: Acts of A Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion” (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Bobby Rabbit has some unfinished business with Canada’s first prime minister. When he finds out his grandfather’s medicine bundle has been rotting away in a British museum, he talks his buddy Hugh ...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Sir John A: Acts of A Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion” (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
At a bar on a break from the road, Bobby and Hugh share the real reason they are heading to Kingston with Anya. She storms off after a heated debate and Hugh warns Bobby that he has to stop making ...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Sir John A: Acts of A Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion ” (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Back on the road, tensions in the car mount between Bobby and Anya as they square off about everything from racism to colonialism to the lingering effects of residential schools. They both know the...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Three Women of Swatow” (Interview with Chloe Hung) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris talks to Chloe Hung who is currently living and working in LA. The Three Women of Swatow playwright shares why her relationship with her two grandmothers inspired her to write about family lo...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Three Women of Swatow” (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Grandmother is drinking gin naked while reading the Bible when she hears an anxious voicemail from Mother. The message says she wants to know how to make drunken chicken, which is odd because she i...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Three Women of Swatow” (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The women flash back through a history of abuse. Grandmother has had to watch Mother repeat her mistakes and is determined to keep Daughter from following in the same footsteps. Three generations o...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Three Women of Swatow” (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After arriving at Mother’s home, Grandmother is confronted with a grisly mess in the bathtub that she must help clean up. The two generations of women argue over tea, emojis, and who is responsible...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: "Cowgirl Up" (Interview with Anna Chatterton) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura talks to Anna Chatterton who is physically distancing at home in Hamilton with her family. The Cowgirl Up playwright explains how she got interested in rodeo culture, the parallels she’s disc...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Cowgirl Up” (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The crowd goes wild as cowgirl Cassidy and her trusty horse Starbright successfully qualify for the Canadian Finals Rodeo in Red Deer Alberta, but first-time jitters make for a disastrous first run...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Cowgirl Up” (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
With the stakes as high as ever, Cassidy and her horse Starbright enter the ring for the next barrel race, but something isn’t right with her mare. After a nail-biting ride, they manage to win but ...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: "Cowgirl Up" (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After a huge win at the Canadian Finals Rodeo, fledgling cowgirl Cassidy wants a little time away from her horse and the Goddesses to celebrate. She saddles over to the bar and meets Jed, a Cowboy ...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: "The Runner" (Interview with Christopher Morris) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris talks to playwright Christopher who is self-isolating at home in Toronto, about how he first became interested in the Jewish volunteer force ZAKA when he was just a teen growing up in Markham...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “The Runner” (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Where is Jacob? He doesn’t know. All he does know is that he is a volunteer for Z.A.K.A, an Israeli organization responsible for putting the bodies of Jews back together following accidents or terr...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “The Runner ” (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Arab girl haunts Jacob’s every thought. He thinks of her when he is sent to Ukraine to unearth remains from a mass grave. And when he slips through the door into a crowded nightclub in Tel Aviv...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “The Runner” (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Reeling from the loss of his job at Z.A.K.A, Jacob flees to his brother Ari’s home in an Israeli settlement. The two brothers, on opposite sides of an ideological argument, get into a dispute and A...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Secret Life of a Mother” (Hannah Moscovitch, Maev Beaty and Ann-Marie Kerr) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura talks with Hannah, Maev, and Ann-Marie who are all working from home and mothering during isolation in Halifax, Toronto, and Lunenburg, N.S. The three women share how they wrote (and re-wrote...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Secret Life of A Mother” (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Two months after giving birth to her son, a mothering app sends Hannah Moscovitch a tip: “Consider getting back in the sack with your husband, even if you don’t feel ready!”(Let's just say it didn'...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Secret Life of A Mother” (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Hannah, played by Maev, confides her fear that she — someone who can tune out oncoming traffic — won’t be a good mother. Also, would the pain of labour expose something ugly at the bottom of her ps...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Secret Life of A Mother” (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After her son Elijah’s birth, Hannah is struck by the urge to sing him traditional Hebrew songs mixed with a smattering of Céline Dion. Both Hannah and Maev reveal their birthing war wounds before ...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Take d Milk, Nah?” (Interview with Jivesh Parasram) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura talks to playwright and performer Jiv Parasram, who is currently quarantining at home in Vancouver and getting ready to take a play online. Parasram reflects on being the first in his family ...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Take d Milk, Nah?” (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jiv is Canadian. Jiv is Indian. And Hindu. And West Indian. And Trinidadian too. Or maybe he is just colonized. In order to explore all these hyphenated identities, he creates the first-ever Hindu-...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Take d Milk, Nah?” (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jiv is the first in his family to be born in Canada and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Here some people call him black, while his own family calls him “white boy”. Jiv goes on a teenage quest to...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Take d Milk, Nah?” (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jiv shapeshifts again to prove identity is pretty trippy. Maybe we are all “Jiv”. Maybe this is all an illusion. But then a memory from Junior High brings him crashing back down to earth. Disaster ...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Take d Milk, Nah?” (Part 4: Epilogue) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We all meet again for one final thought from our multi-hyphenated hero. Here’s why it matters how we choose to define the divides between us, and within us.
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Carried away on the crest of a wave” (Interview With David Yee) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris talks to Governor General Award-winning playwright David Yee, who is currently isolating from home and workshopping a new play over Zoom. Yee reflects on why “underused” actors of colour ofte...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Carried away on the crest of a wave” (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 2004, the deadliest tsunami in recorded history tore through over a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean. In a series of vignettes, David Yee imagines the people left behind in disaster’s wak...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Carried away on the crest of a wave” (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The tragedy travels all the way to Toronto where a radio DJ defies his bosses to perform a parody of Tears for Fears. In Sri Lanka, a man speaks frankly to a child orphaned by the tsunami. And in T...
ListenThe Show Must Go On: “Carried away on the crest of a wave” (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The ripples extend far below the surface of the earth as two men endlessly fall down a hole. In Salt Lake City, an FBI agent questions a bereaved mother about the child she lost in the tsunami. And...
ListenCrawlspace (Interview with Karen Hines) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura talks to playwright and performer Karen Hines about her solo show Crawlspace. Hines explains how her play was inspired by her true-life experience of buying a home, how it fundamentally chang...
ListenCrawlspace (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Writer Karen Hines dreams of homeownership so when she discovers a lemon yellow coach house advertised as a “condo alternative,” she decides to invest her life savings. She adores the granite count...
ListenCrawlspace (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Karen learns that not only is her coach house actually a converted garage, but also that it’s encroaching on her neighbour’s property. And because her neighbour won’t sell her the land, she can’t s...
ListenCrawlspace (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The stench pervading from somewhere is a mystery no one can solve. Karen incurs tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt to find the problem and … deal with it. Karen’s coach house goes fro...
ListenThe Boy in the Moon (Interview with Ian Brown and Emil Sher) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris talks to playwright Emil Sher and journalist Ian Brown about Ian’s bestselling book-turned-play, The Boy in the Moon. Both tell the story of Ian’s quest to connect with his son, Walker, who w...
ListenThe Boy in the Moon (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
An early delivery of their son catches Ian Brown and his wife Johanna Schneller by surprise. Their son Walker is born with a rare genetic disorder, which went undetected in the womb. His condition ...
ListenThe Boy in the Moon (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Walker is diagnosed with Cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome, a condition so rare only 300 people in the world have been diagnosed with it. Ian and his wife are faced with the task of raising a boy who c...
ListenThe Boy in the Moon (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ian reflects on the beautiful moments — the private language of tongue clicks and the joys of an echoing hallway. He also recalls the worst moments — his wife at the bottom of the darkness, and wel...
ListenBUTCHER: Interview with Nicolas Billon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura talks to Governor General award-winning playwright Nicolas Billon about his play "BUTCHER", a dark political thriller set on Christmas Eve. Billon explains why he felt the need to invent a co...
ListenBUTCHER (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
At first, it seems like a Christmas miracle. The Lavinian interpreter arrives to find the old man moaning in pain. Besides being fluent in his language, Elena is also a nurse with some timely advic...
ListenBUTCHER (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“Revenge is the confession of pain … it wants you to feel what it feels.” We all know what it means to kill someone, but what does it mean to break them? No one in the room is playing the same ro...
ListenBUTCHER (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It’s Christmas Eve at a Toronto police station, and Inspector Lamb is no longer having a silent night. A drugged old man in a Santa hat and military uniform has been dropped on his doorstep. Around...
ListenPlayME NOW: Bunny by Hannah Moscovitch from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura and Chris revisit the perfect play for summer, Bunny by Hannah Moscovitch. The play explores taboos of female sexuality when Sorrel, a grown-up married woman, finds herself alone in a canoe w...
ListenBetween Breaths (Interview with Robert Chafe) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris talks to Governor General award-winning playwright Robert Chafe about his play "Between Breaths", a life-affirming look at the life of Dr. Jon Lien who was known as the "Whale Man of Newfound...
ListenBetween Breaths (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Robert Chafe. Between Breaths tells the story of Dr. Jon Lien, the "Whale man of Newfoundland," known for his pioneering efforts in freeing whales from fishing nets. Told in reverse chronologica...
ListenBetween Breaths (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Robert Chafe. Between Breaths tells the story of Dr. Jon Lien, the "Whale man of Newfoundland," known for his pioneering efforts in freeing whales from fishing nets. Told in reverse chronologica...
ListenBetween Breaths (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Robert Chafe. Between Breaths tells the story of Dr. Jon Lien, the "Whale man of Newfoundland," known for his pioneering efforts in freeing whales from fishing nets. Told in reverse chronologica...
ListenHuff (Interview with Cliff Cardinal) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura speaks with award-winning writer and performer Cliff Cardinal about his gut-wrenching play, Huff. He talks about the taboo subculture of Indigenous kids who abuse solvents and are at risk of ...
ListenHuff (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Cliff Cardinal. A gut-wrenching yet darkly humorous tale about Wind and his brothers, all caught in a cycle of solvent abuse following their mother's death. Wind's fantastic dream world bleeds i...
ListenHuff (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Cliff Cardinal. A gut-wrenching yet darkly humorous tale about Wind and his brothers, all caught in a cycle of solvent abuse following their mother's death. Wind's fantastic dream world bleeds i...
ListenHuff (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Cliff Cardinal. A gut-wrenching yet darkly humorous tale about Wind and his brothers, all caught in a cycle of solvent abuse following their mother's death. Wind's fantastic dream world bleeds i...
ListenThe Fish Eyes Trilogy (Interview with Anita Majumdar) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris talks to Dora award-winning playwright Anita Majumdar about her one-woman, multi-voice play The Fish Eyes Trilogy. They discuss consent, cultural relevance and coming of age as a South Asian ...
ListenThe Fish Eyes Trilogy (Part One: Boys with Cars) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Anita Majumdar. Set in the hormone-filled halls of Port Moody Senior Secondary School, we meet Naznin. Her story is the first in three inter-woven Bollywood-meets-high school plays where cultur...
ListenThe Fish Eyes Trilogy (Part Two: Let Me Borrow That Top) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Anita Majumdar. Set in the hormone-filled halls of Port Moody Senior Secondary School, we meet Candice. Her story is the second in three inter-woven Bollywood-meets-high school plays where cult...
ListenThe Fish Eyes Trilogy (Part Three: Fish Eyes) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Anita Majumdar. Set in the hormone-filled halls of Port Moody Senior Secondary School, we meet Meena (and her blunt auntie). Her story is the third in three inter-woven Bollywood-meets-high scho...
ListenPlayME NOW: Better Angels by Andrea Scott. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Who should be feared? Who should be grateful? And who should get to tell the story? These questions are as relevant today as they've ever been. As Black History Month winds down, the theatre-powere...
ListenWhat A Young Wife Ought To Know (Interview with Hannah Moscovitch) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura talks to award-winning playwright, Hannah Moscovitch about her haunting play, What A Young Wife Ought To Know. They discuss the inspiration for the piece, the birth control movement of the 19...
ListenWhat A Young Wife Ought To Know (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Hannah Moscovitch. Set in 1920s Canada, What a Young Wife Ought to Know tells the story of Sophie, a young working-class wife who has a lot to learn about love, sex, and birth control. The play ...
ListenWhat A Young Wife Ought To Know (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Hannah Moscovitch. Set in 1920s Canada, What a Young Wife Ought to Know tells the story of Sophie, a young working-class wife who has a lot to learn about love, sex, and birth control. The play ...
ListenWhat A Young Wife Ought To Know (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Hannah Moscovitch. Set in 1920s Canada, What a Young Wife Ought to Know tells the story of Sophie, a young working-class wife who has a lot to learn about love, sex, and birth control. The play ...
ListenPlayME NOW: Iceland by Nicolas Billon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the midst of a severe stock market correction, PlayME revisits Iceland by Nicolas Billon. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 banking crisis, Iceland unearths greed, selfishness, and other ugly...
ListenPlayME NOW: Vitals by Rosamund Small from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On the heels of the recent California fires, PlayME revisits a clip from past show, Vitals by Rosamund Small. Listen to get inside the mind of a paramedic in the heat of the action. PlayME NOW is a...
ListenPrairie Nurse (Interview with Marie Beath Badian) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris talks to Marie Beath Badian, the playwright of Prairie Nurse, about how her mother's immigration from the Philippines to the prairies in the 60s inspired her hit show.
ListenPrairie Nurse (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Marie Beath Badian. A comedy about two Filipino nurses who come to work at a small-town Saskatchewan hospital in the late 1960s. Cultural clashes, personality differences, homesickness, and the ...
ListenPrairie Nurse (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Marie Beath Badian. A comedy about two Filipino nurses who come to work at a small-town Saskatchewan hospital in the late 1960s. Cultural clashes, personality differences, homesickness, and the ...
ListenPrairie Nurse (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Marie Beath Badian. A comedy about two Filipino nurses who come to work at a small-town Saskatchewan hospital in the late 1960s. Cultural clashes, personality differences, homesickness, and the ...
ListenBang Bang (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Kat Sandler. A white playwright uses the shooting of an unarmed young black man by a police officer as a "jumping-off point" for his hit play, soon to be adapted into a major movie. As Hollywood...
ListenBang Bang (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Kat Sandler. A white playwright uses the shooting of an unarmed young black man by a police officer as a "jumping-off point" for his hit play, soon to be adapted into a major movie. As Hollywood...
ListenBang Bang (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Kat Sandler. A white playwright uses the shooting of an unarmed young black man by a police officer as a "jumping-off point" for his hit play, soon to be adapted into a major movie. As Hollywood...
ListenBang Bang (Part 4) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Kat Sandler. A white playwright uses the shooting of an unarmed young black man by a police officer as a "jumping-off point" for his hit play, soon to be adapted into a major movie. As Hollywood...
ListenIceland (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Nicolas Billon. Set against the backdrop of the banking crisis, a confrontation between a real estate agent and a tenant takes an unexpected turn. (1/3)
ListenIceland (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Nicolas Billon. Set against the backdrop of the banking crisis, a confrontation between a real estate agent and a tenant takes an unexpected turn. (2/3)
ListenIceland (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Nicolas Billon. Set against the backdrop of the banking crisis, a confrontation between a real estate agent and a tenant takes an unexpected turn. (3/3)
ListenBunny (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Hannah Moscovitch. Aroused by inappropriate love, a young woman discovers the power of her own allure. Ever the outsider, she struggles with what's social acceptable only to find herself increas...
ListenBunny (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Hannah Moscovitch. Aroused by inappropriate love, a young woman discovers the power of her own allure. Ever the outsider, she struggles with what's social acceptable only to find herself increas...
ListenBunny (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Hannah Moscovitch. Aroused by inappropriate love, a young woman discovers the power of her own allure. Ever the outsider, she struggles with what's social acceptable only to find herself increas...
ListenVitals (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Rosamund Small. A paramedic named Anna spends her days saving lives and dealing with the darkness, cruelty, and sheer incompetence of the people all around her. How many 911 calls can she deal w...
ListenVitals (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Rosamund Small. A paramedic named Anna spends her days saving lives and dealing with the darkness, cruelty, and sheer incompetence of the people all around her. How many 911 calls can she deal w...
ListenVitals (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Rosamund Small. A paramedic named Anna spends her days saving lives and dealing with the darkness, cruelty, and sheer incompetence of the people all around her. How many 911 calls can she deal w...
ListenVitals (Part 4) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Rosamund Small. A paramedic named Anna spends her days saving lives and dealing with the darkness, cruelty, and sheer incompetence of the people all around her. How many 911 calls can she deal w...
ListenVitals (Interview with Rosamund Small) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura talks with Rosamund Small, the playwright behind Vitals, about researching the life of a paramedic to write her solo show.
ListenLo (Or Dear Mr. Wells) (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Rose Napoli. Laura, a 15-year-old school girl, is in an inappropriate relationship with her English teacher. She is in love, but he's in a complicated marriage he can't leave. Things ignite when...
ListenLo (Or Dear Mr. Wells) (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Rose Napoli. Laura, a 15-year-old school girl, is in an inappropriate relationship with her English teacher. She is in love, but he's in a complicated marriage he can't leave. Things ignite when...
ListenLo (Or Dear Mr. Wells) (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Rose Napoli. Laura, a 15-year-old school girl, is in an inappropriate relationship with her English teacher. She is in love, but he's in a complicated marriage he can't leave. Things ignite when...
ListenLo (Or Dear Mr. Wells) (Interview with Rose Napoli) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris speaks with Rose Napoli, the playwright of Lo (Or Dear Mr. Wells), about her past life as an educator and what inspired her to write about an inappropriate relationship between a school girl ...
ListenQuiver (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Anna Chatteron. Maddie's sweet sixteen sister, Beatrice, is dating someone she shouldn't. Their brassy single mom, Sheila, makes up with her ex-boyfriend again. So fourteen-year-old Maddie is le...
ListenQuiver (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Anna Chatteron. Maddie's sweet sixteen sister, Beatrice, is dating someone she shouldn't. Their brassy single mom, Sheila, makes up with her ex-boyfriend again. So fourteen-year-old Maddie is le...
ListenQuiver (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Anna Chatteron. Maddie's sweet sixteen sister, Beatrice, is dating someone she shouldn't. Their brassy single mom, Sheila, makes up with her ex-boyfriend again. So fourteen-year-old Maddie is le...
ListenQuiver (Interview with Anna Chatterton) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura talks with Anna Chatterton about being a playwright and librettist. She delves into the inspiration for her 14-girl-old character of Maddie and her dysfunctional family.
ListenTheory (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Norman Yeung. Isabelle, a young liberal professor of film theory, creates an Internet discussion board for her class. A mysterious student posts offensive comments and videos, testing Isabelle's...
ListenTheory (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Norman Yeung. Isabelle, a young liberal professor of film theory, creates an Internet discussion board for her class. A mysterious student posts offensive comments and videos, testing Isabelle's...
ListenTheory (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Norman Yeung. Isabelle, a young liberal professor of film theory, creates an Internet discussion board for her class. A mysterious student posts offensive comments and videos, testing Isabelle's...
ListenTheory (Interview with Norman Yeung) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris talks with Norman Yeung, the playwright of Theory, about diversity and race in theatre, liberalism, censorship and the fine line between legal and illegal in graffiti art.
ListenBetter Angels (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Andrea Scott. Akosua is a young woman from Ghana who has come to Canada to work as a nanny for a couple in Toronto. They insist she is a member of their family, but when they increasingly deny h...
ListenBetter Angels (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By Andrea Scott. Akosua is a young woman from Ghana who has come to Canada to work as a nanny for a couple in Toronto. They insist she is a member of their family, but when they increasingly deny h...
ListenBetter Angels (Interview with Andrea Scott) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris and Laura talk with Andrea Scott, the playwright of Better Angels, about domestic slavery, racism, and making the transition from acting to writing.
ListenGrade 8 (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Grade 8 looks at what it means to be a black father today, and the role men play in young girls' lives as they grow up and become women. Told through spoken word, this one-man show is part beat poe...
ListenGrade 8 (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Grade 8 looks at what it means to be a black father today, and the role men play in young girls' lives as they grow up and become women. Told through spoken word, this one-man show is part beat poe...
ListenGrade 8 (Interview with Dwayne Morgan) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura talks with Dwayne Morgan, the playwright of Grade 8, about being a spoken word artist and the trials and triumphs of raising a girl.
ListenThe Philosopher's Wife (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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