meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Holiday Special: “Sanctuary: A Radio Play” Recorded Live In New York City

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Documentary, Education, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Welcome to this special holiday presentation of Sanctuary: A Radio Play, an annual Thanksgiving tradition at Our Hen House! This performance marked the world premiere of John Yunker’s Sanctuary at New York City’s Symphony Space during the Culture & Animals Foundation’s Compassion Arts Festival. We were thrilled to have been a part of this witty, engaging, and incisive production that portrays…

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Welcome to a very special episode of Our Henhouse.

0:12.4

This is Jasmine Singer.

0:13.8

And this is Marianne Sullivan.

0:15.7

And per usual, one of our Thanksgiving traditions is every year we like to air a radio play that we were

0:24.6

able to perform live several years back now. I think it was 2018, which is bananas to me that that was

0:31.6

like four thanksgivings ago. But it was such a wonderful memory. And this play that we were able to

0:37.2

perform is called Sanctuary. And it was performed a wonderful memory and this play that we were able to perform is called

0:37.9

sanctuary and it was performed at new york city's symphony space it was written by john yunker

0:45.6

who is an incredibly talented playwright and person in general and the our henhouse team we

0:53.4

were the actors and the crew in in this because at the time we

0:58.0

that that was kind of who made up the our hen house team just a bunch of performers of various

1:02.6

types and eric milano who who was one of our sound gurus at our henhouse has gone on to win two Emmys since this,

1:13.1

by the way. So it's pretty cool. Not actually for this production, though. I don't know why.

1:19.3

Yeah, I don't know why either. But he was like doing a lot of the sound effects live.

1:24.2

You know, like when there was walking up and downstairs, he would take high heels and put them on like a wooden thing that he had. It was really fun, really fun. And it's such a, it's such a, I love this place so much. I love listening to it. And you know, like, don't they play Alice's restaurant every year on Thanksgiving. Yeah, I think that is where we got the idea, though I might have been the

1:45.3

who got the idea.

1:46.7

But yeah, Alice's restaurant, Arlo Guthrie's famous Talking Blues song from the 60s, Thanksgiving

1:53.1

themed.

1:54.0

It was during the Vietnam War.

1:55.1

It was very political in its own very funny, quirky way.

1:58.6

And yes, it is probably still radio stations that replay it every

2:02.4

year on Thanksgiving. Yeah, completely. So I would say without further ado,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.