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Our Decameron: Lorraine Hansberry at the End of the World

04.16.2020 - By Make-Believe AssociationPlay

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Can a new society arise from a cataclysm? Does humanity deserve a second chance? Chicago author and journalist Natalie Moore joins a virtual audience to explore utopia, dystopia, and the radical imagination while discussing the great Chicago dramatist's "What Use Are Flowers?". -------------------------------------- Listen to Lorraine Hansberry’s What Use Are Flowers?: https://makebelieve.fm/flowers   Listen to Natalie Moore and Jeremy McCarter’s City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919: https://makebelieve.fm/city-on-fire   Credits for this episode: Hosted by Jeremy McCarter Music, mixing, and mastering by Mikhail Fiksel Graphics and social media by Carly Pearlman   Credits for What Use Are Flowers?: Directed by Daniel Kyri Music by Mikhail Fiksel Sound by Erisa Apantaku and Mikhail Fiksel Production manager - Madeleine Borg Stage manager - JC Widman   Cast: Hermit – Billy Branch Charlie – Daniel Kyri Lily – Khloe Janel William – Tevion Lanier Narration read by Kiayla Ryann   Thank you to the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust for allowing us to produce the audio drama; and to the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation and the Poetry Foundation for making season one possible

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