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  Can You Hear Me

  Anna Lyse Erikson

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  Before Guglielmo Marconi came along, there was no practical way to transmit telegraphic messages without wires. But when he harnessed the power of radio waves to send signals over long distances, what had once seemed impossible became a world-changing reality.  
   
  In this original L.A. Theatre Works commission, we’ll get a firsthand, intimate view of the precocious Italian inventor, and what he had to overcome in his quest to revolutionize the way we communicate. 
   
  Can You Hear Me is available as part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in April, 2024. 
   
  Directed by Rosalind Ayres 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: 
   
  Lucy DeVito as Degna Marconi 
  Martin Jarvis as Mr. Preece, King Edward, Captain Smith 
  Kurt Kanazawa as Alfonso Marconi, George Parkin 
  Henri Lubatti as Giuseppe Marconi, Teddy Roosevelt 
  Moira Quirk as Annie Jameson 
  Darren Richardson as George Kemp, Jack Phillips 
  André Sogliuzzo as Guglielmo Marconi and Older Marconi 
  Mark Jude Sullivan as Luigi Solari, Harold Bride, Pagent 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden 
  Recorded and edited by Neil Wogenson 
  Designed by Neil Wogenson, Charles Carroll and Mark Holden, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. 
  Technical Advisor and Morse Code Performer: Mark Holden. 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin 
  Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez 
  Antique Morse Code and radio equipment provided by Ken Holden

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  The Garden - a poem and an essay

  A. F. Moritz

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  The Garden by A. F. Moritz is a passionate denunciation of injustice, especially as seen in the violent injustice directed to the African diaspora in North America. Comprised of a long poem, “The Garden in the Midst”, and an in-depth essay, “The Poet’s Garden,” the book centers on the South Central Los Angeles “riot” of 1992 in response to the acquittal of police officers caught badly beating Rodney King in 1991. From this central point, the poem and essay reach out to encompass the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd, the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, and the long history of legalized criminal repression these two deaths belong to. Largely completed in 1992, Moritz returned to his manuscript in 2020 following the death of Mr. Floyd out of self-interrogation and grief. The Garden suggests that only the essence of poetry can prove antithetical antidote—if there can even be one—to this human crime and tragedy.

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  Little Eyolf

  Henrik Ibsen

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  Ibsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart, in a version by Richard Eyre. How is a life well-lived? Alfred Allmers comes home to his wife Rita and makes a decision. Casting aside his writing, he dedicates himself to raising his son. But one event is about to change his life forever. Little Eyolf was first performed in 1894. This new version, adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2015. The third in a trilogy of revelatory Ibsens, Little Eyolf follows Richard Eyre's multi-award-winning adaptations of Ghosts (Almeida, West End and BAM, New York), and Hedda Gabler (Almeida and West End).

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  The Perfect Specimen

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's The Perfect Specimen starring Errol Flynn & Joan Blondell.

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  Fifty Shades of Fathers - 50 of...

  William Wordsworth, Laurence...

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  Our own lives are possible because of fathers.  It may be as limited as a procreational act and we never see them again.  But more hopefully these are kind, caring and protective relationships that are central to our lives helping us to explore and achieve the people we want to be.  From the childhood dependency of early years to sometimes troublesome teens to independence thereafter they help guide, advise, cajole and share their lives with those they most love. 
   
  Our classic poets who range in stature from William Blake to William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anne Bradstreet fill their verse with their own unique take on just what a father is. What he should be and what he can be.  These poems give us both an insight into the role of the father in previous generations and the mirror of how some things do not change. 
   
  Beyond the nurture and the genetics one fact remains a constant, these relationships go both ways; we need them and they need us.  But for many that can remain unsaid.  Those words can mean much and should be often thought and sometimes said. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of August - An Introduction 
  2 - Stanzas For the First of August by James Monroe Whitfield 
  3 - Hymn For the First of August by John Pierpoint 
  4 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley 
  5 - Sonnet XLII To GWC August 1st 1846 by Christopher Pearse Cranch 
  6 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  7 - As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  8 - The 4th of August by Laurence Binyon 
  9 - August Afternoon by Laurence Binyon 
  10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, on Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker 
  11 - Composed Near Calais, August 7th 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  12 - Grant at Rest August 8th 1885 by James Whitcomb Riley 
  13 - I H B Died August 11th 1898 by William Winter 
  14 - August 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  15 - August 19th 1830 by Henry Alford 
  16 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  17 - August the 22nd 1830 by Henry Alford 
  18 - Calais August 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  19 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth 
  20 - Lines Written in August by Thomas Babbington Macaulay 
  21 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster 
  22 - Love and Death by Ernest Radford 
  23 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  24 - At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan 
  25 - August by James Whitcomb Riley 
  26 - After Sunset by William Allingham 
  27 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
  28 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  29 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
  30 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  31 - An August Night by Radclyffe Hall 
  32 - Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte 
  33 - From Piccadilly In August by John Freeman 
  34 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  36 - Snake by D H Lawrence 
  37 - Sonnet LIII, August by Christopher Pearse Cranch 
  38 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
  39 - Seashore by Tagore 
  40 - The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune 
  41 - Indian Summer by Henry Van Dyke 
  42 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale 
  43 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  44 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  45 - A Draught of Sunshine by John Keats 
  46 - The Rose Has Flushed Red by Hafiz 
  47 - The Rose Has Left the Garden by Richard Le Gallienne 
  48 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore 
  49 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti 
  50 - Fair Summer Droops From Summer's Last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe 
  51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling

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  Chris Bush Plays: One (NHB...

  Chris Bush

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  Since her play Steel opened in her native Sheffield in 2018, Chris Bush has rapidly become one of the UK's most successful and widely staged playwrights, with her plays on stage at the National Theatre, in the West End, and across Europe. Celebrated for her spirited dissections of power, female agency, and northern identity, her work is infused with wit, empathy, and a powerful sense of place and belonging.
  Included here are five of her plays, all first performed between 2018 and 2021, together with a revealing introduction in which she reflects on the tumultuous period from which they emerged.
  Steel (Sheffield Theatres, 2018) is a political epic constructed from minimal resources, a two-hander spanning three decades of women in politics. 'Sharp, witty and uncannily topical' The Stage
  Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong, 2020) is a radical reimagining of the classic tale, asking what women must sacrifice to achieve greatness. 'Original, ambitious and fantastically revisionist' Guardian
  Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida Theatre, 2020) is a play, with songs by Maimuna Memon, about connection and isolation, forged during the Covid pandemic, exploring what we hold on to in troubled times. 'A reminder of the power of theatre and our need for it' Telegraph
  Hungry (Paines Plough, 2021) is a pithy two-hander about food, love, class, and grief in a world where there's little left to savour. 'Reconfirms Chris Bush as one of our greatest, most relevant contemporary playwrights' Broadway World
  (Not) the End of the World (Schaubühne, Berlin, 2021) is a daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy, and colonialism. 'Staggering… Bush's remarkable text melds a ruthless structural concept with exquisite lyricism' Guardian
  'One of our most prolific and arresting writers' Evening Standard
  'A writer of great wit and empathy' The Times

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