DeScripted

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Doubt, a Parable" by John Patrick Shanley. From Encyclopedia.com [http://Encyclopedia.com]: Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, Doubt concerns an older nun, Sister Aloysius, who does not approve of teachers' offering friendship and compassion over the discipline she feels students need in order to face the harsh world. When she suspects a new priest of sexually abusing a student, she is faced with the prospect of charging him with unproven allegations and possibly destroying his career as well as her own. To help build her case, she asks for help from an idealistic young nun, who finds her faith in compassion challenged, and the mother of the accused boy, who is protective of her son, the first black student ever admitted to St. Nicholas. ******* IN OUR NEXT EPISODE ******* Join us as we discuss the 1931 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Alison's House by Susan Glaspell. From StageAgent.com [http://StageAgent.com]: Susan Glaspell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Alison’s House, takes us to Iowa on the last day of the nineteenth century. The Stanhope family are preparing to say goodbye to their old homestead on the banks of the Mississippi but the house holds a lot of memories for each generation. Their sister and aunt, Alison, has been dead for eighteen years but her influence, both as a poet and a person, remains strong. Aunt Agatha is fiercely protective of her sister’s reputation and legacy, but what is she hiding? When disgraced daughter Elsa returns home, old wounds are opened and it becomes clear that her scandalous relationship with a married man is not the first in the family. Like Elsa, Alison also fell deeply in love but, unlike her niece, she let her lover go and channeled her secret passions into her poetry. Unable to bring herself to burn the pages, Agatha finally relinquishes the poetry to Elsa and reveals Alison’s secret. DeScripted Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod [https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod] Twitter: @DeScriptedPod - www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod [http://www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod] Instagram: @DeScriptedPod - www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod [http://www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod]

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1930 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly. From Encyclopedia.com: The Green Pastures follows stories of the Bible, such as Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and the crucifixion of Christ, but places them in a rural black southern setting. Thus, one of the opening scenes takes place at a “fish fry” in “pre-Creation Heaven,” during which God spontaneously decides to create Earth and man. God eats boiled pudding, smokes cigars, and runs Heaven out of a shabby “private office” assisted by Gabriel. The settings are roughly contemporary to the time period in which the play was first written and performed, so that, for instance, the city of Babylon is represented as a New Orleans jazz nightclub. The costumes are also contemporary: God wears a white suit and white tie, Adam is dressed in a farmer’s clothes, Eve wears the gingham dress of a country girl, and so on. The play ends with God’s decision, while back at the fish fry in Heaven, to send Jesus Christ down to Earth. ******* IN OUR NEXT EPISODE ******* Join us as we discuss the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Doubt, a Parable" by John Patric Shanley. From Encyclopedia.com: Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, Doubt concerns an older nun, Sister Aloysius, who does not approve of teachers' offering friendship and compassion over the discipline she feels students need in order to face the harsh world. When she suspects a new priest of sexually abusing a student, she is faced with the prospect of charging him with unproven allegations and possibly destroying his career as well as her own. To help build her case, she asks for help from an idealistic young nun, who finds her faith in compassion challenged, and the mother of the accused boy, who is protective of her son, the first black student ever admitted to St. Nicholas. DeScripted Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod [https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod] Twitter: @DeScriptedPod - www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod [http://www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod] Instagram: @DeScriptedPod - www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod [http://www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod]

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1928 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill. From Encyclopedia.com: The play covers a period of twenty-five years in the lives of mostly upper-middle-class East Coast characters. It centers on Nina Leeds, a passionate, tormented woman whose fiancé was killed in World War I and who spends the remainder of her life searching for an always-elusive happiness. This is a very long play, lasting over five hours in performance. The story is not especially complex, and the length of the play derives from O'Neill's revival of two theatrical devices that had fallen out of use for nearly a century: the soliloquy, in which a character alone on the stage speaks his or her thoughts aloud, and the aside, which enables characters to reveal their thoughts to the audience but not to the other characters on stage. These devices, which O'Neill employed at length, enabled the playwright to probe deeply into his characters' motivations. The soliloquies and asides reveal the discrepancies between what the characters say and do, and what they really feel. ******* IN OUR NEXT EPISODE ******* Join us as we discuss the 1930 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly. From Encyclopedia.com: The Green Pastures follows stories of the Bible, such as Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and the crucifixion of Christ, but places them in a rural black southern setting. Thus, one of the opening scenes takes place at a “fish fry” in “pre-Creation Heaven,” during which God spontaneously decides to create Earth and man. God eats boiled pudding, smokes cigars, and runs Heaven out of a shabby “private office” assisted by Gabriel. The settings are roughly contemporary to the time period in which the play was first written and performed, so that, for instance, the city of Babylon is represented as a New Orleans jazz nightclub. The costumes are also contemporary: God wears a white suit and white tie, Adam is dressed in a farmer’s clothes, Eve wears the gingham dress of a country girl, and so on. The play ends with God’s decision, while back at the fish fry in Heaven, to send Jesus Christ down to Earth. DeScripted Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod [https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod] Twitter: @DeScriptedPod - www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod [http://www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod] Instagram: @DeScriptedPod - www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod [http://www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod]

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2007 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. CONTENT WARNING: Death of young child, grief, suicide, drug abuse We were thrilled to have Julie Arnold Lisnet with us as a special guest to discuss this play. Like all of our podcast episodes, this episode contains a lot of spoilers. If you have yet to read or see this play, please be aware of this. Corrections: During this episode, Randy mentioned the incorrect years of Ten Bucks Theatre's productions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Rabbit Hole. Those were performed in 2011 and 2012, not 2010 and 2011. From Stageagent.com: Becca and Howie Corbett have a picture perfect family life in the suburbs of New York until a random, tragic accident takes the life of their four-year old son. Soon after, Becca’s younger, irresponsible sister, Izzy, announces that she is pregnant: there will now be a new child in the family. As Becca and Howie grow apart, Becca’s mother, Nat, badgers Becca about her grieving process, and Jason, the young driver who killed their son, continually shows up to ask forgiveness, the group is on a bumpy road to healing with no road map in sight. Rabbit Hole delves into the complexity of a family navigating deep grief, and learning what it means to live a fruitful life when things fall apart. ******* IN OUR NEXT EPISODE ******* Join us as we discuss the 1928 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill. From Encyclopedia.com: The play covers a period of twenty-five years in the lives of mostly upper-middle-class East Coast characters. It centers on Nina Leeds, a passionate, tormented woman whose fiancé was killed in World War I and who spends the remainder of her life searching for an always-elusive happiness. This is a very long play, lasting over five hours in performance. The story is not especially complex, and the length of the play derives from O'Neill's revival of two theatrical devices that had fallen out of use for nearly a century: the soliloquy, in which a character alone on the stage speaks his or her thoughts aloud, and the aside, which enables characters to reveal their thoughts to the audience but not to the other characters on stage. These devices, which O'Neill employed at length, enabled the playwright to probe deeply into his characters' motivations. The soliloquies and asides reveal the discrepancies between what the characters say and do, and what they really feel. DeScripted Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod [https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod] Twitter: @DeScriptedPod - www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod [http://www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod] Instagram: @DeScriptedPod - www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod [http://www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod]

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Street Scene by Elmer Rice. From Stageagent.com: The claustrophobic reality of living in a six-story walk-up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is the focus of Elmer Rice’s Street Scene. With the neighbors all knowing everyone’s business, and constantly passing judgement on everyone’s behavior, it is easy to see how this melting pot can quickly become dangerous. On two scorching hot days in June 1929, the pot finally boils over for Frank Maurrant. The rumors about his wife having an affair have become too loud and too persistent for him to ignore. How many times does he have to lay down the law in his own home before it is followed? To make matters worse, that guy keeps turning up and talking to his wife in full view of everyone. ******* IN OUR NEXT EPISODE ******* Join us as we discuss the 2007 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. From Stageagent.com: Becca and Howie Corbett have a picture perfect family life in the suburbs of New York until a random, tragic accident takes the life of their four-year old son. Soon after, Becca’s younger, irresponsible sister, Izzy, announces that she is pregnant: there will now be a new child in the family. As Becca and Howie grow apart, Becca’s mother, Nat, badgers Becca about her grieving process, and Jason, the young driver who killed their son, continually shows up to ask forgiveness, the group is on a bumpy road to healing with no road map in sight. Rabbit Hole delves into the complexity of a family navigating deep grief, and learning what it means to live a fruitful life when things fall apart. DeScripted Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod [https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod] Twitter: @DeScriptedPod - www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod [http://www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod] Instagram: @DeScriptedPod - www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod [http://www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod]