#11: Social Theory

#12: Fantasy!

Join Youssef & Emmet on a fantastical journey to the land of Oz & beyond, as we consider the perks of imagining best case scenarios every once in a while, along with our descriptive dystopic daydreams. We're talking adrienne maree brown, Omar El Akkad, Octavia Butler, & Wicked: the musical. *** SHOW NOTES COMMUNITY CORKBOARD: * The Play The Goes Wrong: it's over now! don't worry, nothing went wrong * Twelfth Night: https://bardunderglass.com/ [https://bardunderglass.com/] (shows on July 29, 30 & 31, 8pm at Crystal Palace in Perth) * No Strings Attached: https://smithsfallstheatre.com/online-tickets-plays1/ [https://smithsfallstheatre.com/online-tickets-plays1/] (shows from August 14 - 23 in Smiths Falls) * Woman in Black auditions (Studio Theatre): https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1629634145838593&set=pb.100063760680079.-2207520000 [https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1629634145838593&set=pb.100063760680079.-2207520000] * Camera Obscura auditions: follow https://www.facebook.com/studiotheatreperth1 [https://www.facebook.com/studiotheatreperth1] &/or https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/ [https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/] * you can buy a digital copy of the play here to study up: https://www.patreon.com/emmlf/posts/script-perk-135311214?source=storefront [https://www.patreon.com/emmlf/posts/script-perk-135311214?source=storefront]or if you’re an NPX member, download it here: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2790818/camera-obscura-a-complicated-connection-in-2-acts [https://newplayexchange.org/script/2790818/camera-obscura-a-complicated-connection-in-2-acts] * Email Emmet if you need a small family member walked or sat in Perth this summer, or creative coaching from any distance: emlfcameron@gmail.com [emlfcameron@gmail.com]  * Emmet’s Patreon poll: https://www.patreon.com/emmlf/posts/pledge-drive-for-162532034 [https://www.patreon.com/emmlf/posts/pledge-drive-for-162532034] * Matilda auditions Mississippi Mudds: https://www.mississippimudds.ca/auditions [https://www.mississippimudds.ca/auditions] THEORY: * Emergent Strategy - a masterclass with author, adrienne maree brown: https://youtu.be/pF3oR7v5Dc0?si=KYaeN8QEuyxpkH0V [https://youtu.be/pF3oR7v5Dc0?si=KYaeN8QEuyxpkH0V] * What Strange Paradise - interview with author, Omar El Akkad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLzlDQgVcEM [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLzlDQgVcEM] * Parable of the Sower - interview with author, Octavia E. Butler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWmeEmEBbAI [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWmeEmEBbAI] * Homework for next episode on “Solidarity” 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGargZd9KkQ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGargZd9KkQ] THEATRE: * Wicked, music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Winnie Holzman, based on the novel by Gregory Maguire. The movies are currently streaming on Amazon Prime, & also probably available at your local library or something else more ethical. * Jenna Bainbridge, Nessarose on Broadway: https://www.instagram.com/bainbridgejenna/ [https://www.instagram.com/bainbridgejenna/] FOREVER THINGS: * Kitchen Theatre Project: https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/ [https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/] or email kitchentheatreproject@gmail.com [kitchentheatreproject@gmail.com]  * Emmet’s website: emmet.ca [http://emmet.ca/] * Emmet’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmlf [https://www.patreon.com/emmlf] * Youssef’s UOttawa profile: https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/1270/topic [https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/1270/topic] * Youssef’s LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jesawan [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jesawan] * Youssef’s photography: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ysawan/ [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ysawan/] * Youssef’s dissertation, “Understanding (De)alienation in Social Movements: Resident Activism and Anti-poverty Organizing in the Toronto-area”: https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/6995e9b1-4b1b-4cd5-84e9-ce6195ca27b9 [https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/6995e9b1-4b1b-4cd5-84e9-ce6195ca27b9]

#11: Social Theory

Youssef & Emmet share big news & big questions this month. Tune in for Wattsian wisdom, what Emmet said when they saw a copy of Youssef's thesis at their old job, & the cautionary tale of a man, his mother, & a 638 page manifesto on internuclear matrixes. *** COMMUNITY CORKBOARD Twelfth Night (Bard Under Glass): At Crystal Palace in Perth on July 29, 30 & 31. More info at: https://www.barndoorproductions.ca/ [https://www.barndoorproductions.ca/]  The Show That Goes Wrong (STP): Info and tickets at https://studiotheatreperth.com/event/the-play-that-goes-wrong/ [https://studiotheatreperth.com/event/the-play-that-goes-wrong/] No Strings Attached (Station Theatre): https://smithsfallstheatre.com/ [https://smithsfallstheatre.com/] Pride in Lanark County (QCL): https://www.queerconnectionlanark.ca/ [https://www.queerconnectionlanark.ca/pride-parade.html] Annie (PCC): Follow on Facebook for show info at https://www.facebook.com/PerthCommunityChoir [https://www.facebook.com/PerthCommunityChoir] and http://www.perthcommunitychoir.com/ [http://www.perthcommunitychoir.com/]  Camera Obscura & The faucet is leaking (STP + KTP): Not yet posted, keep an eye on studio theatre's website for the 2027 season announcement https://studiotheatreperth.com/ [https://studiotheatreperth.com/] Mississippi Mudds 26/27 Season:https://www.facebook.com/Themississippimuddscp/ [https://www.facebook.com/Themississippimuddscp/] and https://www.mississippimudds.ca/ [https://www.mississippimudds.ca/] Riversong Players: https://www.riversongplayers.com/ [https://www.riversongplayers.com/] & https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578873583848 [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578873583848]  THEATRE: LATW audio version of “At Long Last Leo” by Mark Stein on the Libby app: https://libbyapp.com/search/odmc/search/query-At%20Long%20Last%20Leo/page-1/911612 [https://libbyapp.com/search/odmc/search/query-At%20Long%20Last%20Leo/page-1/911612] Or buy it: https://www.latw.org/title/long-last-leo [https://www.latw.org/title/long-last-leo] Craig Manson: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWJaE4pCFF4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== [https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWJaE4pCFF4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==] Access Theatre: https://youtu.be/PxOkcUYMl3o?si=akr8rCIplnlzb594 [https://youtu.be/PxOkcUYMl3o?si=akr8rCIplnlzb594] https://atarchives.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/atlonglastleoprogram.pdf [https://atarchives.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/atlonglastleoprogram.pdf] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-16-vl-2582-story.html [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-16-vl-2582-story.html] THEORY: Reggie Watts - A Song About Apples (Always Love Yourself) - from his Netflix special https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO1CCXXMzBI [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO1CCXXMzBI] A Good Book in Theory, 3ed, by Alan Sears and James Cairns: https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442600775 [https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442600775] What is positivism? (PHILO-notes on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yCpTe9e-MI [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yCpTe9e-MI] FOREVER THINGS: Kitchen Theatre Project: https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/ [https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/] email: kitchentheatreproject@gmail.com [kitchentheatreproject@gmail.com]  Emmet’s website: emmet.ca [http://emmet.ca/] Emmet’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmlf [https://www.patreon.com/emmlf] Youssef’s UOttawa profile: https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/1270/topic [https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/1270/topic] Youssef’s LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jesawan [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jesawan] Youssef’s photography: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ysawan/ [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ysawan/]  Youssef’s dissertation, “Understanding (De)alienation in Social Movements: Resident Activism and Anti-poverty Organizing in the Toronto-area”: https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/6995e9b1-4b1b-4cd5-84e9-ce6195ca27b9 [https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/6995e9b1-4b1b-4cd5-84e9-ce6195ca27b9]

#10: Communism

Youssef & Emmet share their communist red flags. Who did hammer & sickle graffiti in their rebellious youth? Whose grandfather lost his academic job in the Red Scare? Who's quietly cringing when you call your buddies "comrades"? We talk Karl Marx, the impact of trauma on praxis, HUAC, & reading between the lines to find our own leftist dreamboats in Fiddler on the Roof. Community Corkboard: Beetlejuice Jr.: https://sjchs.ticketsplease.ca/events/beetlejuice-jr/ [https://sjchs.ticketsplease.ca/events/beetlejuice-jr/] The Music Man: oops, it’s over :( The Maltese Falcon: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/events/the-maltese-falcon/ [https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/events/the-maltese-falcon/]Annie auditions: https://volunteersignup.org/LCAXM?fbclid=IwY2xjawRpw6pleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFDZk52U1I0dzhqZ0NyenV6c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmaoqZPw2dlsw8FfMe7tyG4CnDR3cTgh0InElFRuDsjtfRQIBWpzrf5inZIQ_aem_rDDI_vSFpQSW1TW7JmuqVA [https://volunteersignup.org/LCAXM?fbclid=IwY2xjawRpw6pleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFDZk52U1I0dzhqZ0NyenV6c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmaoqZPw2dlsw8FfMe7tyG4CnDR3cTgh0InElFRuDsjtfRQIBWpzrf5inZIQ_aem_rDDI_vSFpQSW1TW7JmuqVA] The Play That Goes Wrong (Carleton Place): https://mudds.ticketsplease.ca/events/the-play-that-goes-wrong/ [https://mudds.ticketsplease.ca/events/the-play-that-goes-wrong/] Fun Home: https://thegladstone.ca/shows/fun-home/ [https://thegladstone.ca/shows/fun-home/] BBC 4 on Marx's theory of alienation: https://youtu.be/PZ4VzhIuKCQ?si=z_TsmTqJEkl3v08K [https://youtu.be/PZ4VzhIuKCQ?si=z_TsmTqJEkl3v08K] What’s Love got to do with Communism? | Richard Gilman-Opalsky: https://youtu.be/Y58h90Tycj4?si=lNOwfz1iUDFmBQU_ [https://youtu.be/Y58h90Tycj4?si=lNOwfz1iUDFmBQU_] David Graeber on the value of work (RSA Shorts): https://youtu.be/tpoJIkqEXYo?si=sq_XQj6Rmtssm9g4 [https://youtu.be/tpoJIkqEXYo?si=sq_XQj6Rmtssm9g4] David Graeber - We are already communists: https://youtu.be/87tC_jQ9gHk?si=IvSuN2jbjKE-2O8O [https://youtu.be/87tC_jQ9gHk?si=IvSuN2jbjKE-2O8O] Fiddler on the Roof: Watch the movie: https://tubitv.com/movies/100002779/fiddler-on-the-roof [https://tubitv.com/movies/100002779/fiddler-on-the-roof] Jerome Robbins & HUAC: https://todayinclh.com/?event=dancer-jerome-robbins-names-names-before-huac [https://todayinclh.com/?event=dancer-jerome-robbins-names-names-before-huac] Joseph Stein’s politics considered in retrospect by his conservative son: https://www.city-journal.org/article/my-father-fiddler-and-the-left [https://www.city-journal.org/article/my-father-fiddler-and-the-left] The World of Sholem Aleichem & Blacklist Era Oppression: https://www.fascinatingworld.org/post/the-world-of-sholom-aleichem-and-blacklist-era-oppression [https://www.fascinatingworld.org/post/the-world-of-sholom-aleichem-and-blacklist-era-oppression] The War on Memory: Learning From the Jewish Labour Bund: https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/the-night/the-war-on-memory-learning-from-the-jewish-labor-bund [https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/the-night/the-war-on-memory-learning-from-the-jewish-labor-bund]

#9: Comfort

Are we getting in a rut or planting ourselves firmly with room to grow? Emmet & Youssef talk Thornton Wilder, Thorstein Veblen, theatre seating, nostalgia, conspicuous consumption, mortality, presence, the unbearable speed of existence, haunted houses, & more! *** Community Corkboard: Blood Brothers tickets: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/ [https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/] Inaugural Perkolator resident artist Laura Mota-Juang: https://www.instagram.com/imnofiction/ [https://www.instagram.com/imnofiction/] Kitchen Theatre Project 24 Hour Play Project Participant Registration:https://forms.gle/5UxchN2PDoqe521q8 [https://forms.gle/5UxchN2PDoqe521q8]  Audience Registration: https://forms.gle/w5iTGM7JnaqNFTW36 [https://forms.gle/w5iTGM7JnaqNFTW36]  Beetlejuice Jr. at St. John’s High School: https://sjchs.ticketsplease.ca/events/beetlejuice-jr/ [https://sjchs.ticketsplease.ca/events/beetlejuice-jr/] Spring on the Mississippi lyrics: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=873164 [https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=873164] Our Town: Read the script: https://archive.org/details/ourtownperennial0000unse [https://archive.org/details/ourtownperennial0000unse] 1989 Production with Spalding Gray & Frances Conroy: https://youtu.be/3k_EBbZdUO0?si=s9cplv-YgJOfzuhC [https://youtu.be/3k_EBbZdUO0?si=s9cplv-YgJOfzuhC] 2003 Production with Paul Newman: https://youtu.be/gc1o9cGQ9_Q?si=Q-WfRjvvqvwXrguz [https://youtu.be/gc1o9cGQ9_Q?si=Q-WfRjvvqvwXrguz]  https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Q2BwQ87nk/?mibextid=wwXIfr [https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Q2BwQ87nk/?mibextid=wwXIfr]  Theory of the Leisure Class - BBC 4 “In Our Time” https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m001sdrt [https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m001sdrt] Centre for Popular Economics - on Thorstein Veblen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsHzhcrYsTw [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsHzhcrYsTw] Comfort, Stretch & Panic Zones https://www.bitesizelearning.co.uk/resources/comfort-zone-stretch-zone-panic-zone [https://www.bitesizelearning.co.uk/resources/comfort-zone-stretch-zone-panic-zone]

#8: Feminism

Youssef & Emmet are back for season 2 with an exploration of queer space, bolsheviks, suffragettes, Thatcherites, Caryl Churchill, & the mysterious meanings of character doubling on the stage & in our imaginations. Community Corkboard: Hadestown tickets: https://mudds.ticketsplease.ca/hadestown-teen-edition/ [https://mudds.ticketsplease.ca/hadestown-teen-edition/] 24 Hour PlaysParticipate: https://forms.gle/MGPDvuZmJo5aF9yN6 [https://forms.gle/MGPDvuZmJo5aF9yN6] Audience: https://forms.gle/ye2AqU1VocsgrAmA6 [https://forms.gle/ye2AqU1VocsgrAmA6]  Blood Brothers tickets: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/blood-brothers-musical/ [https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/blood-brothers-musical/] New Moon Magazine: https://newmoongirls.com/ [https://newmoongirls.com/] Youssef’s lecture notes: ⁠https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JkN-Ni6hb4GNaQgmXj9L95gM-s5aV7VR/view?usp=drivesdk⁠ [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JkN-Ni6hb4GNaQgmXj9L95gM-s5aV7VR/view?usp=drivesdk] “Queer in Space: Kollantai Commune Archive”: ⁠https://youtu.be/tlXIK_oqjBQ⁠ [https://youtu.be/tlXIK_oqjBQ] Judith Butler on Gender Theory (BigThink): ⁠https://youtu.be/UD9IOllUR4k⁠ [https://youtu.be/UD9IOllUR4k] Angela Davis on Mainstream Feminism: ⁠https://youtu.be/bzQkVfO9ToQ⁠ [https://youtu.be/bzQkVfO9ToQ] Patricia Hill Collins on ‘Controlling Images’: ⁠https://youtu.be/XVdbyhuAJEs⁠ [https://youtu.be/XVdbyhuAJEs] A Beginner’s Guide to the Suffragettes (Jenny Draper): https://youtu.be/gqHLkmN-HMw?si=QCjPBPgjlXDrVCLL [https://youtu.be/gqHLkmN-HMw?si=QCjPBPgjlXDrVCLL]  Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill (free to borrow online): https://archive.org/details/playsofseventies00corn/mode/1up [https://archive.org/details/playsofseventies00corn/mode/1up] Top Girls BBC production Intro & Act 1: https://youtu.be/iGWD0r0f9Go?si=M0jw9nAHhnVtc098 [https://youtu.be/iGWD0r0f9Go?si=M0jw9nAHhnVtc098] Act 2: https://youtu.be/LMoY_NthPdI?si=bbFNGRSnZ_3zkZ_u [https://youtu.be/LMoY_NthPdI?si=bbFNGRSnZ_3zkZ_u] Interviews: https://youtu.be/hK7ebGa2XXY?si=B0Vto7baBZJkhE4d [https://youtu.be/hK7ebGa2XXY?si=B0Vto7baBZJkhE4d]