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  Fantasies of Nina Simone

  Jordan Alexander Stein

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  Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein examines the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Stein outlines how Simone gave voice to personal fantasies through releasing dozens of covers of her white male contemporaries. With her covers of George Harrison, the Bee Gees, Bob Dylan, and others, Simone explored and claimed the power and perspective that come with race and gender privilege. Looking at examples from Simone's four-decade genre-bending career—from songbook standards, jazz, and pop to folk, junkanoo, and reggae—and at her work's many uptakes and afterlives, Stein mobilizes the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to build a black feminist history with and for this multifaceted performing artist.

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  Muppets in Moscow - The...

  Natasha Lance Rogoff

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  After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union. With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be. 
  In Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia, Natasha Lance Rogoff brings this gripping tale to life. Amid bombings, assassinations, and a military takeover of the production office, Lance Rogoff and the talented Moscow team of artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and puppeteers remained determined to bring laughter, learning, and a new way of seeing the world to children in Russia, Ukraine, and across the former Soviet empire. With a sharp wit and compassion for her colleagues, Lance Rogoff observes how cultural clashes colored nearly every aspect of the production—from the show’s educational framework to writing comedy to the new Russian Muppets themselves—despite the team’s common goal. 
  Brimming with insight and nuance, Muppets in Moscow skillfully explores the post-Soviet societal tensions that continue to thwart the Russian people’s efforts to create a better future for their country. More than just a story of a children’s show, this book provides a valuable perspective of Russia’s people, their culture, and their complicated relationship with the West that remains relevant even today.

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  Theatre of the Unimpressed - In...

  Jordan Tannahill

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  How dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
  		 
  Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendencethat kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between?
  		 
  A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama – from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres – to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of ‘risk aversion’ paralyzing the form.
  		 
  Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre – one that apprehends the value of ‘liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination.

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  Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

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  Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare 
   
  In the play, Brutus joins a conspiracy led by Cassius to assassinate Julius Caesar, to prevent him from becoming a tyrant. Caesar's right-hand man Antony stirs up hostility against the conspirators and Rome becomes embroiled in a dramatic civil war. 
   
  Narrator: Peter Why 
   
  Flavius, Casca, Volumnius: Maria Kasper 
   
  Marullus, Cinna the Poet, Poet, Dardanius: Ray Kasper 
   
  First Commoner, Decius Brutus, Fourth Citizen, First Soldier, Titinius,: Tomas Peter 
   
  Second Commoner, Soothsayer, Octavius: Charlotte Duckett 
   
  Julius Caesar, Strato: Beth Thomas 
   
  Mark Antony: Esther ben Simonides 
   
  Calpurnia, Second Citizen, Messala: Sonia 
   
  Brutus: LindaB 
   
  Cassius: Hamlet 
   
  Cicero, Cato: Paul Huxley 
   
  Cinna the Politician: Anna Simon 
   
  Ligarius, Popilius, Pindarus: Phil Schempf 
   
  Lucius, Third Citizen, Second Soldier,: Gaby 
   
  Publius: Brian 
   
  Metellus Cimber, Artemidorus,: John Burlinson 
   
  Trebonius: Khaghbboommm 
   
  Portia: Lydia 
   
  Servant, Lepidus, Clitus: Lian Pang 
   
  First Citizen, Claudius, Third Soldier, Messenger: Rachel 
   
  Lucilius: Roohi 
   
  Varro: Tony Addison

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  A Rare Recording of Film Icon...

  Lillian Gish

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  Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 - February 27, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called the First Lady of American Cinema, and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Duel in the Sun and in 1971, she was awarded an Academy Honorary Award for her career achievements. Despite being better known for her film work, she was also accomplished on stage, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972. The following recording is from a 1950 interview.

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  You need to hear this -...

  Anastasia Washington

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   Anastasia grew up in a weird mix of chaos. As a Bi-Racial child, she experienced the truths of the world in a very fast and open, and sometimes aggressive, way. That’s how she became an actress and comedian, learning quickly that to entertain is an easy way to deliver messages and to make people laugh is good for the soul and great way to break up the chaos. Nobody can stay mad while chuckling. Try it. I’ll wait. See?! Anastasia has lived by this philosophy. With honesty and love and bit of humor she tells you hard truths and teaches you how to be your own best friend in this Self-help essay book. It includes things like Cake Wednesday to celebrate life’s wins every week. And Days of yes, because everyone should have days where they don’t hear no, and so much more. So take a seat because You need to hear this!

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