34.3 The Female of The Species: "The Duchess at Prayer"
Fireside Mystery Theatre
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4.5 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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"The Duchess at Prayer" 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 The Traveler
Michael Pate as The Old Man
Lauren Elder as The Duchess
James Rieser as The Duke
Ali Silva as Nencia
Rashmi Singh as Ursula
James Kleinmann as Ascanio
Alain Laforest as The Chaplain
Radio play by Rebecca Graves
adapted from the short story by Edith Wharton
Musical performance: “The Kiss” written by Judee Sill
sung by Martina DaSilva accompanied by Brad Whiteley
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 | Through the Ides of March, we've come, as we now dive deeper into the great work from the female of the species. |
| 0:18.1 | The following, an adaptation of Edith Wharton's, The Duchess at Prayer, |
| 0:22.3 | is a gripping tale of darkness and betrayal. Rendered in our inimitable style, it was recorded |
| 0:28.6 | live at the Slipper Room in New York City on March 25, 2018. |
| 0:36.9 | Of all the fine authors we are saluting this evening, won towers over them all. |
| 0:43.3 | The great American novelist Edith Wharton was the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. |
| 0:51.3 | She is, to this day, noted for her very detailed portraits |
| 0:55.0 | of a particular fading aristocracy. |
| 0:58.2 | But despite this reputation for realism, |
| 1:01.1 | she also had a penchant for fantasy. |
| 1:04.1 | She composed many ghost stories over the span of a career |
| 1:07.4 | that lasted for more than 30 years. |
| 1:10.3 | Wharton once famously quipped that, while she did not believe in ghosts, she was still afraid of |
| 1:17.2 | them. |
| 1:18.7 | The following story, The Duchess at Prayer, has been adapted for the very first time for |
| 1:24.1 | our theater of the mind by Rebecca Graves. |
| 1:27.2 | Music first time for our Theatre of the Mind by Rebecca Graves. Do you wish to see inside? |
| 1:49.1 | I did not know it was possible to see more than the grounds. |
| 1:52.1 | Oh yes, as the groundskeeper, I have every key to the villa. |
| 1:56.0 | I can take you to the Duchess's apartments, which are beyond the courtyard there. For 200 years, |
| 2:03.3 | nothing has been changed in the apartments of the Duchess. And no one lives there now. |
| 2:08.4 | No one, miss. And the palace and the villa are always closed. As you see, always. How long has this |
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