Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Circe Institute Podcast Network.

I am David Kern and as always on Close Reeds, I am joined by Angelina Sanford and Tim McIntosh.

Angelina, how's it going?

Tim, how's it going?

It's going good, David.

Tim, you're in the throes of a play.

Are you surviving?

We, I am seriously, barely surviving.

So we're doing Readers Theater for the first three,

oh, first five productions,

and then we go into a poll performance at the end of this month. This is February

1st, isn't it? Um, and so just readers, do you guys know what readers theater is or a staged

reading? Does that make any, like, are you familiar enough? Okay. Yeah. So tonight we're doing

music stands on stage. The actors will not be moving around

and a few of the stage directions.

She drops her T-Mug.

We'll be read during the dialogue

and we'll be doing it in costume

and there'll be a couple of sound cues.

I mean, it's really, really scaled back

but it is overwhelming how much work it is. I forgot. I forgot because I've,

you know, the last time I've been on theater, somebody else has been doing all of the

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