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 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

The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais

Better than Shakespeare is a podcast dedicated to socialist theatre. Each week we discuss a different play relevant to socialist struggle in its aesthetic, historical, and theoretical context. There are also jokes. The core team is Andy Boyd and Danny Erickson, but we also have a rotating roster of stellar guests from the worlds of theatre and socialism and socialist theatre.

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