End of Season Announcement
CYGNET RADIO HOUR
Produced by Cygnet Production for your listening pleasure. All episodes are free to listen and share. Thank you from all of us to all of you! Host & Director: Louanne Moldovan
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol. Charles Dicken’s classic Christmas tale is brought to life by a cast of seven using an original script by Lisa Barck Garofalo, a cofounder of Portland’s New Rose Theatre. In this production, Dickens himself narrates the action, giving extra resonance to his vivid characters and the glorious renaissance of Ebenezer Scrooge.
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Withering Looks
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Find yourself transported into the front room of the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth where your hostesses Audrey and Olivia will lead you on a romp through the lives and letters of Charlotte Brontë (author of Jane Eyre) and Emily Brontë (best known for Wuthering Heights)—with a few zany detours. The duo's blundering comedy is right out of the British farce playbook.
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Louanne Moldovan sits with Maggie Fox & Sue Ryding
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Listen in as our director Louanne Moldovan connects with the delightful duo Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding of LipService… described by The Guardian as “the Laurel and Hardy of literary deconstruction.”
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My Sweetie Is Gone!
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Oh no, my sweetie is gone!
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The Wild Party!
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The Wild Party is a jazz-age, book-length narrative poem throbbing with passionate rhythms. Louche characters of all sorts engage in colorful debauchery, while main characters Queenie and Burr circle each other in a cynical, dangerous game of sexual power.
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CONVERSATION: Director Moldovan and Professor Sonia Sabnis chat about the Wild Party.
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Listen in as Artistic Director Louanne Moldovan and Sonia Sabnis, Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities at Reed College, discuss the power and poetry of language and rhyme in The Wild Party.
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Faith Healer
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Haunting, magical, mystical, Faith Healer tells the story of Francis Hardy, an Irish traveling faith healer, his wife Grace, and his Cockney manager Teddy. This play was voted as one of the 100 most significant plays of the 20th century and one of the "40 best plays of all time." This Cygnet Radio Hour production stars Bruce Burkhartsmeier as Frank, Vana O’Brien as Grace, and Keith Scales as Teddy. Bruce and Vana were recorded live in the studio. Keith was recorded virtually from Arkansas.
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CONVERSATION: Gemma Whelan speaks about, Faith Healer
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Director Louanne Moldovan and Gemma Whelan, artistic director of Corrib Theatre in Portland, Oregon, discuss the power and potency of the language in Faith Healer.
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XINGU
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XINGU By: Edith Wharton
info_outlineThe Wild Party is a jazz-age, book-length narrative poem throbbing with passionate rhythms. Louche characters of all sorts engage in colorful debauchery, while main characters Queenie and Burr circle each other in a cynical, dangerous game of sexual power.
About the Playwright
Joseph Moncure March (1899–1977) was best known for his long narrative poems The Wild Party and The Set-Up. He attended Amherst College and was a protégé of Robert Frost's. He left school to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1918; he participated in the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. In 1919, he was discharged from the Army, returned to school and graduated Honoris Causa in 1920.