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Snap Judgment

Silence Speaks

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Storytelling, Personal Journals, Arts, Arts/performing Arts, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Society & Culture/documentary, Performing Arts, Music

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

You don't always need words to speak up.

Silence Speaks

In a time when words were dangerous, Grigory found a way to speak up using silence. Mimes. Robots. Mermaids. You’ll only hear a story like this on Snap Judgment.

Thank you Grigory for sharing your story! Check out Grigory’s work on his Youtube...watch Man and the Sea, The Acrobats, Jungle, and Black Square, recorded by Grigory before he left the Soviet Union.

Produced by John Fecile, original score by Renzo Gorrio.

Marcel on the Train

During WWII, a young Marcel Marceau helped rescue children from the Nazis. How he did so became the basis of his art.

Thanks Marshall for speaking with us! You can find more info about Marshall Paillet’s work here

Produced by John Fecile, original score by Renzo Gorrio.

The Kiss - LIVE at Story Fest

In high school, Nimisha Ladva was used to keeping her head down and her test scores up. But she surprises everyone by getting a lead in the school play -- well, that role it comes with a chance to do something she'd never done before: kiss a boy. 

A huge thank you to Nimisha Ladva. She's a playwright and college essay coach. You can find her at theessayadvantage.com and on instagram @nimishaladva 

Nimisha Ladva performed this story live at Story Fest. If you haven't heard of Story Fest, it's a national show that finds amazing local writers, journalists, and performing artists to perform their work LIVE on stage. Read about the work they do, see what cities they are coming to, and get tickets at storyfest.org

Season 17 - Episode 24

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Snap Studios

0:02.0

You know, no one would be shocked to learn that I love fantasy.

0:21.7

I love how modern fantasy reimagines history,

0:24.8

like George R. Martin's Game of Thrones.

0:27.9

It was loosely, very loosely modeled on the English War of the Roses,

0:32.1

which was cool, and the one thing that carried over from the history to the fantasy

0:37.3

is the part of the fool.

0:40.3

The gesture, the clown, the joker.

0:42.3

In Game of Thrones, the closest we get to this ancient role is Tyrion Lannister.

0:48.3

No, officially, he's no gesture. He's a lord, a Lannister.

0:53.3

Hand of the king, but look at him. Drunk, the one everyone

0:58.6

underestimates, the only one with the freedom to say the quiet part out loud. It only

1:04.0

get a goblet of wine in the face for his trouble. The only one licensed to tell the truth.

1:10.7

Because if anyone else says to the king, your war is failing, the peasants can't afford eggs,

1:18.3

your queen is sleeping with the bodyguard.

1:21.6

Well, then it's off with your head. Kill the messenger.

1:25.1

The one person who can say what's actually happening has to be the Joker.

1:30.8

Because he's just playing, right?

1:32.8

Just having fun.

1:33.9

He can say whatever he wants until he can't.

1:39.5

Then it's off with his head too.

1:41.3

And today on Snap Judgment, bad news because our Joker stumbles across the line.

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