47.4 In the Garden: "The Cabbage Patch Kid"
Fireside Mystery Theatre
Fireside Mystery Theatre
4.5 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
TW: miscarriage, pregnancy loss
"The Cabbage Patch Kid" is the final episode (finally released!) from an earlier series cultivated on a little plot of land that was our 2019/2020 season premiere, In the Garden. It may be hard to remember because last year seems like decades ago. Well, this show was recorded live in NYC on 9/29/19.
The cast featured in this episode:
James Rieser as Don
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Chris
Michael Pate as Richard
Kacie Laforest as Eva
James Kleinmann as Warren Lock
Mary Murphy as Clarissa
Ali Silva as Tommy
David Linton as Mr. Edwards
Alain Laforest as Mr. Edwards, Sr.
Audio play written by Courtenay Gillean Cholovich
Directed by Holly Payne-Strange
Song:
“Spanish Harlem” by Jerry Leiber & Phil Spector
performed by Martina DaSilva accompanied by Nico Sleator
Poem:
"The Flower Girls" written and performed by David Linton
Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva
Musical score improvised by Nico Sleator
Sound effects designer & engineer: Andrew Hammond
Technical director at The Slipper Room: Johnny Goddard
Theme music by Jason Graves
Audio post-production: Ali Silva
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| 0:00.0 | As the old Bob Dylan song goes, |
| 0:07.6 | strap yourself to a tree with roots. |
| 0:09.8 | You ain't going nowhere. |
| 0:12.2 | Our roots, in the final analysis, |
| 0:15.2 | can have the greatest impact on our present and future, |
| 0:19.2 | in good and not so good ways. |
| 0:21.6 | There's no escaping that, I suppose. |
| 0:23.8 | So, settle in for the following story, The Cabbage Patch Kid. |
| 0:28.2 | Here we bring to bloom a sapling from some seriously deep and sorted roots. |
| 0:35.1 | You may notice that this tale is a little out of order. |
| 0:38.7 | It's the final episode from an earlier series in the Garden. |
| 0:42.5 | Yeah, you remember that one? |
| 0:44.2 | It's series number 47 in our podcast feed. |
| 0:47.4 | Well, here it is, at last, the final of its buds to bloom. |
| 0:52.5 | It was taped live in New York City on September 29th, 2019. |
| 1:02.0 | In preparation for this show, we reviewed some of the classics in grizzly vegetation literature. |
| 1:14.0 | Some very familiar and others less so. |
| 1:22.7 | John Collier's seriously macabre story of plants fusing with mammals in his green thoughts comes to mind. |
| 1:24.4 | So does The Strange Orchid by H.G. Wells. Even good old Stephen King's super weird, |
| 1:32.6 | The Lawnmower Man, gave us a terrifying jolt of inspiration. But the one piece that seems to linger |
| 1:40.5 | over them all is Rappuccini's daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
| 1:46.5 | In this tale, a woman named Beatrice is cursed to tend the vast but poisonous garden of her father, |
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