“Slut: The Play,” an Empowering Story for Young Women

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In “Slut: The Play,” Katie Cappiello captures the trauma of sexual assault, based on the stories of teen-agers in her theatre company. (Hilton Als wrote about the play for the magazine.) A member of the cast, Mary Miller, tells David Remnick that the play inspired her to tell her own story for the first time outside a therapist’s office. Cappiello, the artistic director of the Arts Effect NYC, asks, “Who better to speak this truth than those who face it day in and day out?” In a conversation with Remnick, she explains what she’s learned from working with teen-age boys on a play about sexual aggression and violence. Also, Ian Frazier visits the farm of the future, in an industrial building in New Jersey; Siri has some special instructions for when you’ve had a few too many to navigate safely. These segments originally aired on March 4, 2016, and January 13, 2017.

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0:00.0	This is real trade to balance.
0:04.0	The One World Observatory is straight of the block to West Boulevard and make that right.
0:10.0	They didn't break that, but they have pretty good access to those people.
0:15.0	She actually, she's...
0:16.0	She's...
0:17.0	So that's happening.
0:19.0	So that's happening.
0:24.0	It seems like an incredible story here on many fronts.
0:32.1	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:36.6	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:41.2	We're living in a moment now where issues of sexual violence and harassment and power are being discussed more widely and more openly than ever before.
0:45.8	Most recently, the deluge of accusations against Harvey Weinstein,
0:49.3	here in the New Yorker and in the New York Times,
0:51.8	has led to a movement on social media with women primarily,
0:56.1	sharing their experiences under the hashtag Me Too.
0:59.8	One of the most dramatic accounts of these issues that I've seen lately was a work of theater.
1:05.0	It's a play that was on stage here in New York last year and has toured around the country.
1:09.8	The cast was made up entirely of teenage girls, students of an acting teacher named Katie
1:15.1	Capiello.
1:16.4	But this wasn't kids' theater, not in the least.
1:19.1	The topic of the play, and some of the language are intended for mature audiences.
1:23.1	So if you have younger kids listening with you right now, this might not be for them.
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