Listening to Lake Song
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LAKE SONG makes its debut today on the Tribeca Audio Premieres podcast! Listen . Starting on October 13, listen to LAKE SONG on its own podcast feed. Available everywhere, including , , , and on the web at . Follow or subscribe to LAKE SONG to hear new episodes as they appear each week.
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Trailer 2: Chicago Poets--Past, Present, Future
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co-creator Nate Marshall talks about what Chicago poets have always done. . . and what they're *going* to do. Lake Song, the epic new audio-drama series from , will debut October 12 as an official selection of . For more, visit .
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Trailer: Lake Song
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OFFICIAL SELECTION - Tribeca Festival Audio Premieres. It's 2098 and the Republic of Chicago has what the world needs: fresh water. But with new opportunities come new threats, especially for a pair of siblings on the South Side. Can the people come together to save their city--and each other? LAKE SONG is the joint creation of seven multidisciplinary Chicagoans. Combining sci-fi and music, politics and poetry, it's a collective response to our times, and a shared dream of our future. Go to the new LAKE SONG feed to subscribe. Coming in mid-October.
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Our Decameron: Shakespeare in Utopia
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Following the cancellation of Shakespeare in the Park, Oskar Eustis talks about a utopian story in one of Shakespeare's plays. A practical guide to what a vision of the future can do--and what it can't.
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Our Decameron: Lorraine Hansberry at the End of the World
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Can a new society arise from a cataclysm? Does humanity deserve a second chance? Chicago author and journalist Natalie Moore joins a virtual audience to explore utopia, dystopia, and the radical imagination while discussing the great Chicago dramatist's "What Use Are Flowers?".
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Our Decameron: The Tortoise, the Hare, and Will Leitch
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To tide us over until baseball returns, sportswriter Will Leitch breaks down the most famous athletic contest of all time, and a lively virtual audience debates its moral today.
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Our Decameron: Chicken Little
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The sky might or might not be falling, but the story that gave rise to that phrase is everywhere. In episode two of our series inspired by Boccaccio, Stephanie Ybarra and fascinating people from all over the country reconsider the tale of the moment.
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Our Decameron: Zen in Seattle
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Inspired by Boccaccio, a new series of conversations in which we share a story and invite a fascinating person to talk about what it means. In episode one, Martin Edlund of Malaria No More talks about the Zen fable about the tiger and the strawberry.
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City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919
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A docudrama about the summer that ravaged a city--and remade it. Co-produced with WBEZ.
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Lost Books of the Odyssey
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Odysseus, the "man of twists and turns", goes on five new adventures, portrayed by five amazing actors. Performed and recorded live in Chicago, plus audience conversation.
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Brava
A folktale con música
Script and corrido by Nancy García Loza
Music direction and additional music by Eréndira Izguerra
Sound team led by Mikhail Fiksel
Directed by Laura Alcalá Baker
Executive produced by Jeremy McCarter
Performed and recorded live at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen, Chicago
CAST (in order of appearance)
Young Girl - Ilse Zacharias
Father/Patrón - Christian Castro
Viejita/Cook - Ana María Alvarez
Walking Stick/Servant - Brandon Rivera
Guard/Soldado - Carlos Rogelio Diaz
Prince/Bolumbí - Eduardo Curley-Carrillo
BAND
Violin - Eréndira Izguerra
Guitarron - Jeanette Nevarez
Vihuela - Laura Velazquez
SOUND TEAM
Sound designer - Mikhail Fiksel
Associate sound designer - Robert Hornbostel
Recording engineer - Steve Labedz
Audio technician - Maddie Doyle
PRODUCTION STAFF
Production manager - Madeleine Borg
Stage manager - Jaclynn Joslin
Community manager - Jennifer Aparicio
Folk music adviser - Juan Dies, Sones de México Ensemble
POST-PRODUCTION
Editing, mixing, and additional recording by Mikhail Fiksel
Additional recording by Robert Hornbostel
Mastering by Joe Palermo
Based on a folktale in Tales from Jalisco, Mexico by Howard T. Wheeler, published by The American Folklore Society.
Casting by Paskal Rudnicke Casting
Graphic design by Carly Pearlman
Equipment provided by TechMagic Designs
Make-Believe theme music by Mikhail Fiksel
SPECIAL THANKS
Catherine Allen and The Den Theater; The American Folklore Society; Carolyn Casselman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison; Erica Daniels and Victory Gardens; Maria Hinojosa; Nate Marshall; Chris Rooney; SAG-AFTRA; and Carlos Tortolero and the National Museum of Mexican Art
PRODUCTION SPONSORS
The Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Family Foundation, for an essential launch grant
The Poetry Foundation, our lead season sponsor
Joyce Chelberg, whose generosity supports the work of Make-Believe’s actors
All our donors and supporters
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