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  Zeni Dean of the Diamond

  Mas Moriya

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  Kenichi Zenimura – known as “Zeni” – loved baseball. As a young man in the 1920s he developed a Nisei baseball league in Fresno, California, and later organized barnstorming tours that brought the likes of Babe Ruth to the West Coast and Japan. And despite being sent to a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II, he knew that somehow, baseball would be the key to improving the lives of his fellow detainees.
   
  
   
  This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.
   
  
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in October 2024.
   
  
   
  Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson
   
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
   
  
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
   
  
   
  Keiko Agena as Kiyoko Zenimura
   
  Michael Sun Lee as Kenichi Zenimura (Zeni)
   
  John Miyasaki as Hiro Tanaka and others
   
  Rob Nagle as Coach Hank and others
   
  Thomas Winter as Harvey Zenimura
   
  Additional voices by Tristan Chung, C.J. Cruz, Genki Hall, Derrick Kemp, Rosie Narasaki, Tristan Pravong, and Paul Yen.
   
  
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
   
  Prepared for audio by Mark Holden
   
  Recording Engineer and Editor: Neil Wogenson
   
  Mixing Engineer: Charles Carroll
   
  Designed by Mark Holden and Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
   
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
   
  Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez
   
  
   
  Special thanks to Bill Staples, Jr., and the Nisei Baseball Research Project for sharing their research and expertise to inspire and accurately depict the historical events of this project.

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  The Poetry of John Dryden -...

  John Dryden

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  John Dryden was born on August 9th, 1631 in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire and grew up in a nearby village.  In 1644 he was sent to Westminster School as a King's Scholar and then obtained his BA in 1654, graduating top of the list for Trinity College, Cambridge that year.  
  Returning to London during The Protectorate, Dryden found work with Cromwell's Secretary of State, John Thurloe.  At Cromwell's funeral on November 23rd 1658 he found company with the Puritan poets John Milton and Andrew Marvell.  The setting was to be a sea change in English history. From Republic to Monarchy and from one set of lauded poets to what would soon become the Age of Dryden. Later that year he published the first of his great poems, Heroic Stanzas (1658), a eulogy on Cromwell's death.  
  With the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 Dryden celebrated in verse with Astraea Redux, an authentic royalist panegyric and with the re-opening of the theatres he began to also write plays. His first, The Wild Gallant, appeared in 1663 and whilst not successful, he was contracted to produce three plays a year for the King's Company, in which he became a shareholder. During the 1660s and '70s, theatrical writing was his main source of income.    
  In 1667, he published Annus Mirabilis, a lengthy historical poem which described the English defeat of the Dutch naval fleet and the Great Fire of London.  This work established him as the pre-eminent poet of his generation, and was crucial in his attaining the posts of Poet Laureate in 1668 and a couple of years later, historiographer royal (1670) as his talent encompassed many forms; from Poetry to Plays to translations. 
  In 1694 he began work on what would be his most ambitious and defining work as translator, The Works of Virgil (1697), which was published by subscription. It was a national event.  
  John Dryden died on May 12th, 1700, and was initially buried in St. Anne's cemetery in Soho, before being exhumed and reburied in Westminster Abbey ten days later. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  Coda

  Steven Seidenberg

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  The nameless narrator of Steven Seidenberg's latest work, Coda, attempts to trace the origins of linguistic and perceptual differentiation—of experience through the cipher of the subject, broadly understood—by advancing the linguistic experiments of contemporary lyric and narrative forms, moving between extravagant prosody and obsessive disquisition to reconfigure the conceptual imperatives common to many throughlines in philosophy and theology. Continuing the focus on the structure of memory and the decadence of body he began in his book Anon, Seidenberg here describes the epistemological regress of desire, intention, knowledge, and discernment, coupling the language and concerns of authors as diverse as Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Wittgenstein with a raucous humor in the tradition of Rabelais, Beckett, Lispector, and Sterne. 
  An unnamed narrator, possibly afloat, adrift, possibly asleep, or dreaming, or already dead, or as good as, being an exile, or a condemned fool on a ship of fools, takes the opportunity of this voyage of sorts, to try and make sense of their life and mental state. Through a dizzying, meandering syntax, and farcical flourish, the adventure takes us through philosophical events with dogs, how to tell one’s tale, plead one’s case, how to walk through doors, lose one’s limbs, if not one’s mind, how to make a liveable self in the world, while puffing out smokes of language to fight off the existential crisis at play: “I am waiting for something to wait for”. It might take a little while to adjust to this spinning language feast, adapted from bygone literary models, from Rabelais to Sterne, but once you’re in, you will find yourself unable to put down the addictive, comical and strangely urgent twists and turns of Seidenberg’s latest proposition. —Caroline Bergvall, author of Drift, Alisoun Sings, and Meddle English

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  The Children's Hour

  Lillian Hellman

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  The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman is a gripping and thought-provoking play that delves into the destructive power of lies and societal prejudice. Set in an all-girls boarding school, the story follows Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, two dedicated teachers whose lives are upended when a vengeful student, Mary Tilford, fabricates a shocking accusation against them. The malicious lie not only jeopardizes their school but also exposes the fragility of their reputations and relationships in a judgmental society. First performed in 1934, the play examines themes of morality, truth, and the devastating consequences of unchecked rumors. A timeless exploration of human behavior, The Children's Hour remains a powerful critique of societal norms and the cost of prejudice.

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  Annabel Lee

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Annabel Lee is the last complete poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. 
  The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are jealous. He retains his love for her even after her death. 
  There has been debate over who - if anyone - was the inspiration for Annabel Lee. Though many women have been suggested, Poe's wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe is one of the more credible candidates. 
  ©2009 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.; (P)2009 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

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  Old Castle Road Trip

  Amanda Daire

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  Best friends, Elanna and Khrista, go on a last-minute road trip to reunite grumpy old Gerard with his long-lost love and to find--or lose--themselves along the way. 
  An elderly man with a second shot at finding love. 
  A mom of three teens seeking solace from a husband whose problematic behaviors threaten to shatter the image she so carefully cultivated. 
  A best friend searching for answers to her career questions. 
  A weekend in the city turns into a cross-country road trip, with plenty of bumps along the way. 
  On their quest to reunite Gerard with his old flame, will Elanna and Khrista be able to weather all the storms in their path?

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