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

Thanksgiving Special – Sanctuary: A Radio Play

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

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

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

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We are thrilled to present this very special holiday episode of Sanctuary: A Radio Play, an annual Thanksgiving tradition at Our Hen House! This special performance marks the world premiere of John Yunker’s Sanctuary at New York City’s Symphony Space during the Culture & Animals Foundation’s Compassion Arts Festival. ABOUT THE PLAY A dark comedy by John Yunker, Sanctuary tells the…

Transcript

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0:00.0

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate it, and welcome to our henhouse.

0:11.3

This is Jasmine Singer.

0:12.5

I'm so excited that you're here with us for our annual reading of, or I should say, re-air of our staged reading of Sanctuary, which is a radio play written by

0:24.3

John Yunker, and the Our Henhouse team was able to perform this live in New York City a few years

0:31.0

ago at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side, and this is something we like to play every year

0:37.4

around Thanksgiving so that

0:39.2

maybe as you're making your Tofurky or your sides, you could listen and you could know that

0:45.7

you're not alone. We're everywhere. And from our henhouse to you, we want to say that we are so

0:52.9

grateful to you. We want to say that we are so grateful to you. Enjoy Sanctuary.

0:55.0

Sanctuary, a radio play. Castlist, Richard, played by John Fashanti, late 40s, married to Lisa, a retired recovering computer geek.

1:20.5

Lisa, played by Marianne Sullivan, late 40s, married to Richard, a congenital multitasker.

1:29.2

Lisa and Richard have been married long enough to finish each other's sentences,

1:32.5

but not long enough to appreciate the assistance.

1:37.8

Meg, played by Jasmine Singer.

1:42.0

30s, animal rights activist.

1:45.9

With her tattooed arms and chest,

1:49.0

she dresses to display as many as legally possible.

1:51.8

Charlie,

1:54.1

played by Michael Heron.

1:57.6

50s, he's the critter guy.

2:08.4

Scene one.

2:12.8

We're in the dining room of a craftspan home in small rural Oregon town.

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