Maddie and Tim take a look at Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad", a play which both of them are very, very unfamiliar with. With a handful of millennia between today and when the Odyssey was first whispered, they discuss the questions and problems that come up when attempting to weave a new tale from a familiar story.
(Speaking of weaving, peep the shitty editing Maddie did this time around - Suitors, eat your heart out.)
Auction house for Atwood's copy of Double Persephone: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/double-persephone/author/margaret-atwood/first-edition/
Guardian interview with Atwood and Phyllida Lloyd: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/oct/26/theatre.classics
Seanna McKenna on Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAm4QvLhCKY
Margaret Atwood at Hay Festival 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgVj8DECrP8
BLACKPINK "STAY [ENGLISH COVER]" by Shimmeringrain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9K305OrPlg
--------
1:21:53
--------
1:21:53
Episode 1 - The Crucible
Maddie and Amanda delve into Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" in this inaugural episode. From the playwright's alleged Communist ties to the 2002 production featuring a future Disney princess, it's the Salem Witch Trials like you've never seen it. Maddie's certainly has never read it.
(Note: Jed Harris, the director of the 1953 premiere of "The Crucible" was incorrectly identified as 'Jim Harris' in this episode. However, historical accounts also say that he was a bit of a jackass so y'know we're sorry but not that much.)
Arthur Miller's NYT Article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/10/21/why-i-wrote-the-crucible
Ringer article about Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/3/19/17136620/marilyn-and-miller-star-crossed-misfits
Daily Beast article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/him-too-how-arthur-miller-smeared-marilyn-monroe-and-invented-the-myth-of-the-male-witch-hunt
Audio clips sampled from:
Meech & Lo "Salem Witch Trials" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOPsdaUxsGY&t=95s
American Masters PBS "Why Arthur Miller Wrote the Crucible" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGVlDzu-_dg
SNL "Crucible Cast Party feat. Lin Manuel Miranda" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkjjtX83-Cc&t=1s
Old Vic "Director's Cut: The Crucible" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGx_PGGQF2U
Scottish Ballet "The Women of the Crucible" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dznuOvp8wto
Theater majors/former theater majors breaking down plays, musicals, playwrights, history, and other theatrical topics while trying to drink enough to forget the enormous amount of student loan debt looming over their heads.
Portugal