Pygmalion: Q&A Episode

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Join David and Tim as they welcome back special guest Jessie Turpin to read a scene from the play and answer your questions. Conversation touches on topics like Shaw’s extreme stage directions, the didacticism of the play, and much more. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm David Kern.
0:04.2	And I'm Tim McIntosh.
0:06.0	And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader, on which we are discussing
0:11.1	George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
0:13.7	A play?
0:14.4	We talked about the play itself last week.
0:16.4	This week we answered your questions.
0:18.2	Sadly, Heidi is not here because she is sick and we'll have to
0:24.1	push on without her. She has lots of great things to say about this place, so I'm a little sad
0:30.7	about that, but she needs to rest right now, taking those fluids, so we're giving her a break.
0:35.7	We do have a special guest joining us again.
0:39.3	Jesse Turpin is back. Revisiting her role as Liza do little later on in the episode. Jesse,
0:44.6	thanks for being here. Oh, I'm glad to be here. Thanks for having me. Jesse, this is what happens
0:48.8	when you do something well. You get asked, do it again. If you do it well for 40 hours a week,
0:54.5	they'll ask you to do it for 80.
0:56.2	Well, I appreciate that.
0:57.8	It's a standard, though.
0:59.4	So if I don't get asked next time,
1:01.0	it means I did a really terrible job.
1:02.9	You're right.
1:03.7	Well, the great thing is,
1:04.5	I mean, the plays after this week,
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