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Let Me Ascertain You: The Civilians Podcast episodes:

09.02.2016
Flops, Failures, And Fiascos - Part II
This is the second episode of Let Me Ascertain You is drawn from “Flops, Failures and Fiascos,” an original cabaret that explored and celebrated disasters of all shades as told by those who have survived the shame, horror and glory...
07.29.2016
Flops, Failures, And Fiascos, Part I
This episode of Let Me Ascertain You is drawn from Flops, Failures and Fiascos, an original cabaret that explored and celebrated disasters of all shades as told by those who have survived the shame, horror and glory of failing big. Flops,...
03.07.2016
Live at the Met Museum: The Way They Live, Part III
This episode of Let Me Ascertain you is the third and final installation of “The Way They Live,” the final performance of the Civilians’ season-long residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The Way They Live” was written by Micharne...
02.01.2016
Live at the Met Museum: The Way They Live, Part II
This episode of Let Me Ascertain you is the second of three culled from “The Way They Live,” the final performance of the Civilians’ season-long residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The Way They Live” was written by Micharne...
11.23.2015
Live at the Met Museum: The Way They Live, Part I
This episode of Let Me Ascertain you is the first of three culled from “The Way They Live,” the final performance of the Civilians’ season-long residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The Way They Live” was written by Micharne...
03.25.2015
Live at The Met Museum: Beauty, Love, Body
For this episode of Let Me Ascertain You, we bring you back to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where The Civilians are artists in residence. As part of our research, we were wandering through some of the museum's halls...
03.05.2015
Live at The Met Museum: Curators and the Objects They Love
On this special podcast, we're back inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, investigating within the halls and installations of this iconic museum. Focusing on beauty, sex, love, and the body for this Let Me Ascertain You episode,...
01.31.2015
Live at The Met Museum: The Civilians Tackle The Other Hollywood
What you’re about to hear has been workshopped and presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of The Civilians' artist residency. The performances come from interviews we did during our investigation for our upcoming musical, “Pretty Filthy,” about...
08.06.2014
F*ing & Dying: Love/Sex/Reproduction
Welcome to the final episode of our Let Me Ascertain You series on sex and death. According to Freud, the death drive is the drive towards self-destruction and the return to the "inorganic." Eros on the other hand is the...
07.23.2014
F*ing & Dying: The Brink
Let Me Ascertain You is back with the third episode in our series about all things sex and death related. In this episode we are leaning towards the sex side of the sex and death equation, looking at those elements...
07.09.2014
F*cking & Dying: The White Light
We are in the thick of exploring our competing sex and death drives, and that interesting space where the two overlap and even coalesce. In this episode, we are searching for the "white light," that surreal experience that can really...
06.25.2014
F*cking & Dying: Turned On
Let Me Ascertain You is back with a new series examining two of The Civilians’ favorite fixations: sex and death. This first podcast in the series focuses on death as the ultimate turn-on. To start us off, we have Stephen...
04.16.2014
Sex Variants, Part IV
This is our fourth and final episode of our Let Me Ascertain You: Sex Variants 1941, taking inspiration from a study conducted in the 1930’s by Dr. George Henry in which he interviewed a couple hundred individuals and cataloged data...
04.02.2014
Sex Variants, Part III
Welcome to episode three in our series Let Me Ascertain You: Sex Variants 1941. Recorded live at Joe’s Pub in New York City, this show takes its inspiration from the medical book Sex Variants: A study of Homosexual Patterns by...
03.12.2014
Sex Variants, Part II
Hi! We’re back with the second episode of Let Me Ascertain You: Sex Variants 1941 recorded live here in NYC at Joe’s Pub. This series takes its inspiration from a 1941 medical book by Dr. George W. Henry. Subtitled "A...
02.26.2014
Sex Variants, Part I
We’re kicking off a new series here at Let Me Ascertain You. These podcasts are taken from our live shows performed at Joe's Pub here in New York City, and our most recent show was called Sex Variants 1941. As...
02.05.2014
Holy Matrimony! Part IV
This is our fourth and final episode of “Let Me Ascertain You: Holy Matrimony” from our investigations into American Weddings. In celebration of the defeat of DOMA in the Supreme Court this past summer we decided to poke around in...
01.22.2014
Holy Matrimony! Part III
We’re here with episode three of four podcasts of our Let Me Ascertain You: Holy Matrimony! series looking at all things about weddings. Our crew of artists talked to real-life couples as well as the people in the amazing and...
01.09.2014
Holy Matrimony! Part II
We’re back with the second episode of Let Me Ascertain You: Holy Matrimony! For this series we did a deep dive into the wonderful world of weddings in America. Or maybe more like a face plant into a three tiered...
12.11.2013
Holy Matrimony! Part I
We’re starting up a new series here at Let Me Ascertain You called “Holy Matrimony!" With DOMA getting taken down by the Supreme Court this past summer and with marriage equality spreading state by state, we thought it was a...
11.27.2013
Be The Death of Me, Part IV
This is our fourth and final episode of our Let Me Ascertain You: Be The Death of Me Series. These interviews are part of an ongoing investigation about death, dying and whatever comes after that. We talked to more than...
11.14.2013
Be The Death of Me, Part III
Here’s episode three in our new podcast series Let Me Ascertain You: Be The Death of Me. What you’ll hear are excerpts from a larger ongoing project about life, death, and whatever happens after that. As part of this investigation,...
10.30.2013
Be The Death of Me, Part II
We’re back with the second episode of Let Me Ascertain You: Be The Death of Me. For this Civilians' project we took a prismatic look into the end of life and talked with a cross-section of New Yorkers - ER...
10.16.2013
Be The Death of Me, Part I
We’re starting up a new series here at Let Me Ascertain You taken from a couple of live events we did recently about death. The show called “Be The Death of Me” is about facing that final curtain and maybe...
09.25.2013
LGBTQ All Out! Part IV
Check out our fourth and final episode of our "Let Me Ascertain You: LGBTQ All Out!" podcast series. This was recorded live at the Barrow Street Theater in NY where actors performed various real people we interviewed about their experiences...
09.11.2013
LGBTQ All Out! Part III
Up next is our third podcast of our series "Let Me Ascertain You: LGBTQ All Out!" dedicated to sexuality and gender. For this episode, we've got another interview from a staffer at the Rainbow Heights Club in Brooklyn, an advocacy...
08.28.2013
LGBTQ All Out! Part II
We’re back with the second episode of Let Me Ascertain You: LGBTQ All Out recorded live at the Barrow Street Theater; actors perform various real people we interviewed about their experiences related to sexuality and gender. One of the groups...
08.14.2013
LGBTQ All Out! Part I
We’ve got a new topic here at Let Me Ascertain You that we're calling "LGBTQ All Out!” and it's all about those who have battled for, celebrated, and championed their sexual orientation and gender identity. We dig into the personal...
03.13.2013
Occupy #S17, Part V
Now for the finale of our Occupy #S17 series! This episode contains recordings of a live performance of interviews with Occupy protesters that we presented at Joe's Pub for the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. First up is our...
02.27.2013
Occupy #S17, Part IV
Here are more of our interviews from the Occupy Wall Street movement, presenting interviews we’ve conducted with activists since the beginning at of it all at Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011. We created an event at Joe’s Pub in...
02.13.2013
Occupy #S17, Part III
Welcome to our third podcast episode commemorating the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. The Civilians conducted interviews with activists in the movement since its start last year at Zuccotti up to this one year anniversary on September 17, 2012...
01.30.2013
Bogotá Prison Pageant, Part III
Every year, the national women's prison in Colombia puts on a beauty pageant in which each cell block elects its own candidates to represent them - a queen and a queen mother. Our artists were down in Bogotá for the...
01.16.2013
Occupy #S17, Part II
Occupy Wall Street had its one-year anniversary on September 17, 2012. Civilians artists were out for that entire year conducting interviews with the protesters. We presented some of those interviews on September 17 at Joe's Pub, along with thirteen other...
01.03.2013
Bogotá Prison Pageant, Part II
Our artists conducted interviews with the women in El Buen Pastor, the national women's prison in Bogotá, Colombia. Every year, the prison hosts a beauty pageant in which each cell block elects its own candidates to represent them - a...
12.12.2012
Occupy #S17, Part I
The one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street was on September 17 of this year. We have been conducting interviews with protesters throughout the year, and our special performance for #S17 on September 17 at Joe's Pub focused on how the...
11.29.2012
Bogotá Prison Pageant, Part I
The beauty pageant that takes place in the national women's prison in Bogotá, Colombia is the subject of this week's episode. Steve Cosson spent a month visiting the prison during the lead up to the pageant, working with a group...
10.31.2012
Death, Part III
Here is our last episode about death, featuring an interview performed in a cabaret at Joe's Pub last season. Jeanine Serralles performs an incarcerated woman in the national women's prison in Bogotá, Colombia describing a near-death experience. This interview, conducted...
10.17.2012
Occupy Your Mind, Part III
Following the last two episodes focused on the French revolution of 1871, this week's episode finds us back with our local Occupy Wall Street protesters. Nina Hellman and Daniel Jenkins perform an interview with Savitri and Reverend Billy of the...
10.03.2012
Paris Commune and Social Space
A special guest joins us in this week's episode: Kristin Ross, Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She has written extensively about Paris Commune. Her book “The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune” was what...
09.19.2012
Paris Commune
Our latest show, Paris Commune, will be having its world premiere run at ArtsEmerson in Boston followed by a run at BAM's Next Wave Festival this fall. The play is about the explosive Parisian uprising of the working class in...
08.22.2012
Death, Part II
People who encounter death as part of their daily lives are featured in this week's episode, which was recorded live during our cabaret at Joe's Pub. Emily Rossell performs an interview with an ER doctor from the Bronx, Nina Hellman...
08.08.2012
Occupy Your Mind, Part II
Our Judson Church performance from earlier this year featured monologues about the Occupy movement. The interviews were conducted as part of our open-sourced investigative call to action, Occupy Your Mind. Mark Stetson from Arts Diaspora performs an Occupy Activist who...
07.25.2012
Death, Part 1
The Body Farm in Knoxville, TN is the world's first research facility dedicated to the study of human decomposition. The two monologues in this episode are from interviews conducted there by Civilians Associate Artist Alix Lambert as part of ongoing...
07.11.2012
You Better Sit Down: Salon Night Episode 2
A talk-back with the cast of You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce kicks off this week's episode. The show, which recently completed its New York premiere at the Flea Theater, featured actors Matt Maher, Caitlin Miller, Jennifer...
07.04.2012
Occupy Your Mind, Part I
Occupy Your Mind is an open-sourced living history of Occupy. Anyone, anywhere can participate by conducting an interview, performing it, and posting it to the Occupy Your Mind Tumblr, occupythecivilians.tumblr.com. This past April, The Civilians and others came together to...
06.27.2012
The High Line
The elevated public park, the High Line, is built on historic freight rails elevated above the New York City streets. This week's episode features a show about Robert Hammond, a co-founder of the High Line, and the process behind getting...
06.20.2012
You Better Sit Down: Salon Night Episode 1
You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce recently had its world premiere at The Flea Theater in New York. The play consisted of four actors playing their parents in verbatim conversations each actor had with his or her...
06.13.2012
Mr. Burns: Behind the Scenes
Anne Wasburn's new play is currently receiving its world premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington, DC. In the show, Armageddon has struck and the electric grid has gone down permanently. For one group of tenacious survivors, sitting around...
05.09.2012
Modern Society
How do we deal with the pressures of modern society? This week's episode looks at interviews focused on the ways we try to escape, including running away, drugs, suicide, and hot nude yoga. Billy Eugene Jones plays a former mole...
05.02.2012
This Beautiful City
Colorado Springs is home to many national Evangelical Organizations, including Focus on the Family and New Life Church. Our artists spent time there investigating the shifting lines between church and state, viewing the city as a microcosm for many issues...

What's Let Me Ascertain You: The Civilians Podcast about?

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Let Me Ascertain You: The Civilians Podcast episodes:

Flops, Failures, And Fiascos - Part II

Flops, Failures, And Fiascos, Part I

Live at the Met Museum: The Way They Live, Part III

Live at the Met Museum: The Way They Live, Part II

Live at the Met Museum: The Way They Live, Part I

Live at The Met Museum: Beauty, Love, Body

Live at The Met Museum: Curators and the Objects They Love

Live at The Met Museum: The Civilians Tackle The Other Hollywood

F*ing & Dying: Love/Sex/Reproduction

F*ing & Dying: The Brink

F*cking & Dying: The White Light

F*cking & Dying: Turned On

Sex Variants, Part IV

Sex Variants, Part III

Sex Variants, Part II

Sex Variants, Part I

Holy Matrimony! Part IV

Holy Matrimony! Part III

Holy Matrimony! Part II

Holy Matrimony! Part I

Be The Death of Me, Part IV

Be The Death of Me, Part III

Be The Death of Me, Part II

Be The Death of Me, Part I

LGBTQ All Out! Part IV

LGBTQ All Out! Part III

LGBTQ All Out! Part II

LGBTQ All Out! Part I

Occupy #S17, Part V

Occupy #S17, Part IV

Occupy #S17, Part III

Bogotá Prison Pageant, Part III

Occupy #S17, Part II

Bogotá Prison Pageant, Part II

Occupy #S17, Part I

Bogotá Prison Pageant, Part I

Death, Part III

Occupy Your Mind, Part III

Paris Commune and Social Space

Paris Commune

Death, Part II

Occupy Your Mind, Part II

Death, Part 1

You Better Sit Down: Salon Night Episode 2

Occupy Your Mind, Part I

The High Line

You Better Sit Down: Salon Night Episode 1

Mr. Burns: Behind the Scenes

Modern Society

This Beautiful City