34.2 The Female of The Species: "Encore in the East Village"
Fireside Mystery Theatre
Fireside Mystery Theatre
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🗓️ 18 March 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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"Encore in the East Village" is a radio play from our live show, **The Female of The Species**, recorded 2/25/18 at The Slipper Room in NYC.
Featured in the cast:
Kacie Laforest as Monica
Lauren Elder as The Ghostly Singer/Songwriter
Rashmi Singh as Tera
Michael Pate as Barry
James Kleinmann as Alex
Ali Silva as Myrna
James Rieser as Myron
Alain Laforest as Von Chessum
David Linton as The Barber
Radio play by Courtenay Gillean Cholovich
adapted from the short story, "A Culture-Ghost," by Vernon Lee
Directed by Holly Payne-Strange
Musical score improvised by Brad Whiteley
Sound Effects Designer and Engineer: Sean Hagerty
Technical Director at The Slipper Room: Johnny Goddard
Theme music by Jason Graves
Podcast production by Ali Silva & Daniel Graves
Post-production audio by Ali Silva
Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez, Ali Silva, Daniel Graves, & Rebecca Graves for Fireside Mystery Productions
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there, listeners, good and true. Our celebration of women's history month continues with this delectable display of the power of feminine creativity. |
| 0:23.8 | It was taped live at the slipper room in New York City on February 25, 2018. |
| 0:29.3 | And now our next installment from The Female of the Species. |
| 0:36.9 | The great May West once said, |
| 0:40.3 | When I'm good, I'm very good. |
| 0:43.3 | When I'm bad, I'm better. |
| 0:47.3 | Tonight we present to you the work of women at their very best and baddest, with three classic but lesser-known |
| 0:57.2 | works that until this evening have never been adapted for any medium. |
| 1:02.7 | And it should be noted that this is the first edition of Fireside Mystery Theater that has ever |
| 1:06.9 | been written exclusively and entirely by women. |
| 1:10.4 | Thank you. ever been written exclusively and entirely by women. |
| 1:20.6 | Our first author, Vernon Lee, was the pen name of British writer Violet Paget. She was born in France in 1856 to British expatriate parents, and despite writing primarily |
| 1:26.6 | for a British audience, she spent much of her |
| 1:29.8 | life living on the continent her writing was infused with her fascinations |
| 1:35.3 | hauntings and music the following adaptation by Courtney Gillian Cholovich is based on |
| 1:42.7 | Vernon Lee's chiller, a culture ghost. |
| 1:46.2 | It shows us how art, feeling, and music may truly possess us and obsess us. |
| 1:53.5 | Check, check, one, two, one. |
| 2:03.6 | All right, thanks guys and gals. |
| 2:05.6 | And for those of you just cruising in tonight, that's right. |
| 2:09.6 | It's our Flower Power Hour. |
| 2:11.6 | Songs by Beautiful Ladies, perform for all you beautiful ladies. |
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