On this episode of Better Than Shakespeare, Danny and Andy discuss farce as revolutionary propaganda through the play We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! by Italian playwright Dario Fo! Plus, Andy reveals who Lynn Nottage thinks should win the Nobel Prize instead of Dario Fo. For the record, Andy thinks Lynn should win it.

On this episode of Better than Shakespeare, Andy and Danny discuss the play Toussaint Louverture by CLR James.

Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist

A Play by Andy Boyd

Directed by Kim Kerfoot

Scene 3: Years of the Great Break

Cast:

Jeff Gonzalez plays Lev

Brett Radke plays Daniel

Ben Schrager plays Sean

Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist

A Play by Andy Boyd

Directed by Kim Kerfoot

Scene 2: Literature and Revolution

Cast:

Jeff Gonzalez plays Lev

Freddie Fulton plays David

Hello, friends!

Please enjoy this original audio play by BTS host Andy Boyd!

Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist

A Play by Andy Boyd

Directed by Kim Kerfoot

Scene 1: The Stalin School of Falsification

Cast:

Jeff Gonzalez plays Lev

Brett Radke plays Daniel

Ben Schrager plays Louis and Paul

Yoni Bronstein plays Ben

On this episode of Better than Shakespeare, Andy and Danny talk about Andy's play The Trade Federation, out now from NoPassport Press!

https://www.lulu.com/de/de/shop/andy-boyd/the-trade-federation-or-lets-explore-globalization-through-the-star-wars-prequels/paperback/product-8wr68g.html

Andy and Danny discuss the anti-feudal farce The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais.

We read this translation:

https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/holcroft-the-marriage-of-figaro-or-the-follies-of-a-day#preview

Here is a clip from Danny's favorite staging of the opera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAYqk7jppL4

Andy and Danny discuss Geologists by Yang Limin, which traces the history of China from the 1960s to the 1990s through a group of geologists working in oil exploration in China's far northwest.

Andy, Danny, and a special guest discuss Che Guevara by Huang Jisu, Zhang Guangtian, and Shen Lin.

Note: This is a repost of a previous episode. We recommend listening to this episode along with Geologists by Yang Limin. They provide strikingly contrasting views on the legacy of Communism in China. The script for this play can be found here:

https://u.osu.edu/mclc/online-series/noble/

On this episode of Better Than Shakespeare, Andy and Danny discuss Romulus The Great by Friedrich Durrenmatt!