25.1 Love After Death: "The Roses of Popayán"

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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How can the persistent aroma of roses be explained on a long-deserted lot in a crumbled city… where there are no flowers to be found?

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Featured in the cast:
Bill Heidrich as Alejandro Nassar
Kacie LaForest as Gloria
Michael Pate as Carlos
Eirik Davey-Gislason as the construction worker

Episode 25.1 “The Roses of Popayán” from our Love After Death show performed live at The Slipper Room in Manhattan on Sunday, February 26th, 2017

Written by Silbin Sandovar
Directed by Annabelle Rollison
Podcast production by Ali Silva, Greg Russ & Daniel Graves

Musical score improvised by Steve Blanco
Theme music by Jason Graves
Sound designer and engineer Greg Russ

Technical director Johnny Goddard
Production coordinator Dalia Morali
Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez, Ali Silva, Daniel Graves & Rebecca Graves for Fireside Mystery Productions

Copyright 2017 Fireside Mystery Productions
http://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com
@firesidemystery

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0:00.0	Ali Silva here. This episode is brought to you by Audible. I'm thrilled to say that for you darling listeners of Fireside Mystery Theater,
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0:33.0	Kindle Your Mood for our Love After Death episodes. Classic love poems performed by Richard Armitage.
0:39.8	He has a marvelously rich voice, and his readings of poems by Shakespeare, Keats, and more
0:44.7	are a truly wonderful listen. In particular, I found his reading of Annabelle Lee by Edgar
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1:04.0	to the first of four episodes from our most recent live show, Love After Death. Do enjoy this
1:10.3	little confection we call, Roses of Popayam.
1:14.0	It was taped live at the Slipper Room on Sunday, February 26, 2017. It lasted just under 30 seconds, but in that very brief moment, it had more than taken its toll.
1:41.3	In the early morning of March 31, 1983, an earthquake claimed the lives of 267 people.
1:49.0	Over 14,000 buildings, most of them from the historic district of the old city of Popayan, Colombia,
1:56.0	were either seriously damaged or completely raised in the disaster.
2:01.6	Founded by the Spanish colonists in 1537, Popayan is known to be not just one of the oldest cities in Colombia,
2:11.6	but also one of the most picturesque and beautiful.
2:15.6	Many years have passed since, but to this day,
2:21.3	vacant lots lie dejectedly where majestic and irreplaceable structures
2:26.3	once proudly stood.
2:29.3	Alejandro Nasar, a son of Lebanese immigrants born in Popayan,
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