This month we're talking My Name is Rachel Corrie, the bonds of similarity & difference, community & aloneness, responding to complicity we never asked for, martyrdom, & more.

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COMMUNITY CORKBOARD

No Strings Attached: https://smithsfallstheatre.com/online-tickets-plays1/ (shows from August 14 - 23 in Smiths Falls)

Camera Obscura audition info: https://www.facebook.com/emmlf/posts/pfbid0PtPrTZJgTG8exQkdcL8Ucr6okyN3vbBgLRsc533zZjRr9JK6cNdKKJFfrRaRR6L5l

Sign up for your slot: https://volunteersignup.org/9X9J3

Sides: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tSYeXFlCQk3QIX2QxL42aOcJc8kP3zOZU7GN7VbAA58 

ASSOCIATIONS

Pride (2014) trailer: https://youtu.be/kZfFvsKDuUU?si=UUtaxPXyy6fonLWi 

THEATRE

My Name is Rachel Corrie: https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/57384/my-name-is-rachel-corrie

My Name is Rachel Corrie video (multi-actor): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vm5MoBCgsU

Cindy Corrie reads the words of her daughter Rachel Corrie (People’s History of the United States): https://youtu.be/7Qu6KqGzhhc?si=dD_gaxkr0tKWhO2y 

International Solidarity Movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Solidarity_Movement

Katharine Viner’s Afterword to My Name Is Rachel Corrie: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/apr/08/theatre.israelandthepalestinians

Katharine Vine remembers Alan Rickman: https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-the-most-loyal-playful-and-generous-of-friends

Obituary of Rachel Corrie: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-mar-18-na-corrie18-story.html

Was This House Worth Her Life?: https://www.thestranger.com/news/was-this-house-worth-her-life-13822/

Interview with Rachel Corrie’s parents: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-anti-imperialist-archive/id1651719521?i=1000648727337

Rachel Corrie Foundation: https://rachelcorriefoundation.org

Rachel Corrie’s family loses wrongful death lawsuit: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/12/rachel-corrie-family-appeal-israel-court

Democracy Now! Debate over why the play is not opening in NYC: https://www.democracynow.org/2006/3/22/my_name_is_rachel_corrie_a

THEORY

Mechanical vs organic solidarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGargZd9KkQ

[more notes will be added]

Join Youssef & Emmet on a fantastical journey to the land of Oz & beyond, as we consider the perks of imagining best case scenarios every once in a while, along with our descriptive dystopic daydreams. We're talking adrienne maree brown, Omar El Akkad, Octavia Butler, & Wicked: the musical.

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SHOW NOTES

COMMUNITY CORKBOARD:

• The Play The Goes Wrong: it's over now! don't worry, nothing went wrong
• Twelfth Night: https://bardunderglass.com/ (shows on July 29, 30 & 31, 8pm at Crystal Palace in Perth)
• No Strings Attached: https://smithsfallstheatre.com/online-tickets-plays1/ (shows from August 14 - 23 in Smiths Falls)
• Woman in Black auditions (Studio Theatre): https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1629634145838593&set=pb.100063760680079.-2207520000
• Camera Obscura auditions: follow https://www.facebook.com/studiotheatreperth1 &/or https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/
• you can buy a digital copy of the play here to study up: https://www.patreon.com/emmlf/posts/script-perk-135311214?source=storefront or if you’re an NPX member, download it here: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2790818/camera-obscura-a-complicated-connection-in-2-acts
• Email Emmet if you need a small family member walked or sat in Perth this summer, or creative coaching from any distance: [email protected] 
• Emmet’s Patreon poll: https://www.patreon.com/emmlf/posts/pledge-drive-for-162532034
• Matilda auditions Mississippi Mudds: https://www.mississippimudds.ca/auditions

THEORY:

• Emergent Strategy - a masterclass with author, adrienne maree brown: https://youtu.be/pF3oR7v5Dc0?si=KYaeN8QEuyxpkH0V
• What Strange Paradise - interview with author, Omar El Akkad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLzlDQgVcEM
• Parable of the Sower - interview with author, Octavia E. Butler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWmeEmEBbAI
• Homework for next episode on “Solidarity” 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGargZd9KkQ

THEATRE:

• Wicked, music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Winnie Holzman, based on the novel by Gregory Maguire. The movies are currently streaming on Amazon Prime, & also probably available at your local library or something else more ethical.
• Jenna Bainbridge, Nessarose on Broadway: https://www.instagram.com/bainbridgejenna/
  

FOREVER THINGS:

• Kitchen Theatre Project: https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/ or email [email protected] 
• Emmet’s website: emmet.ca
• Emmet’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmlf
• Youssef’s UOttawa profile: https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/1270/topic
• Youssef’s LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jesawan
• Youssef’s photography: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ysawan/
• Youssef’s dissertation, “Understanding (De)alienation in Social Movements: Resident Activism and Anti-poverty Organizing in the Toronto-area”: https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/6995e9b1-4b1b-4cd5-84e9-ce6195ca27b9

Youssef & Emmet share big news & big questions this month. Tune in for Wattsian wisdom, what Emmet said when they saw a copy of Youssef's thesis at their old job, & the cautionary tale of a man, his mother, & a 638 page manifesto on internuclear matrixes.

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COMMUNITY CORKBOARD

Twelfth Night (Bard Under Glass): At Crystal Palace in Perth on July 29, 30 & 31. More info at: https://www.barndoorproductions.ca/ 

The Show That Goes Wrong (STP): Info and tickets at https://studiotheatreperth.com/event/the-play-that-goes-wrong/

No Strings Attached (Station Theatre): https://smithsfallstheatre.com/

Pride in Lanark County (QCL): https://www.queerconnectionlanark.ca/

Annie (PCC): Follow on Facebook for show info at https://www.facebook.com/PerthCommunityChoir and http://www.perthcommunitychoir.com/ 

Camera Obscura & The faucet is leaking (STP + KTP): Not yet posted, keep an eye on studio theatre's website for the 2027 season announcement https://studiotheatreperth.com/

Mississippi Mudds 26/27 Season:https://www.facebook.com/Themississippimuddscp/ and https://www.mississippimudds.ca/

Riversong Players: https://www.riversongplayers.com/ & https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578873583848 

THEATRE:

LATW audio version of “At Long Last Leo” by Mark Stein on the Libby app: https://libbyapp.com/search/odmc/search/query-At%20Long%20Last%20Leo/page-1/911612

Or buy it: https://www.latw.org/title/long-last-leo

Craig Manson: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWJaE4pCFF4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Access Theatre: https://youtu.be/PxOkcUYMl3o?si=akr8rCIplnlzb594

https://atarchives.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/atlonglastleoprogram.pdf

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-16-vl-2582-story.html

THEORY:

Reggie Watts - A Song About Apples (Always Love Yourself) - from his Netflix special

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO1CCXXMzBI

A Good Book in Theory, 3ed, by Alan Sears and James Cairns:

https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442600775

What is positivism? (PHILO-notes on YouTube):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yCpTe9e-MI

FOREVER THINGS:

Kitchen Theatre Project: https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/

email: [email protected] 

Emmet’s website: emmet.ca

Emmet’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmlf

Youssef’s UOttawa profile:

https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/1270/topic

Youssef’s LinkedIn:

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jesawan

Youssef’s photography:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ysawan/ 

Youssef’s dissertation, “Understanding (De)alienation in Social Movements: Resident Activism and Anti-poverty Organizing in the Toronto-area”:

https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/6995e9b1-4b1b-4cd5-84e9-ce6195ca27b9

Youssef & Emmet share their communist red flags. Who did hammer & sickle graffiti in their rebellious youth? Whose grandfather lost his academic job in the Red Scare? Who's quietly cringing when you call your buddies "comrades"? We talk Karl Marx, the impact of trauma on praxis, HUAC, & reading between the lines to find our own leftist dreamboats in Fiddler on the Roof.

Community Corkboard:

Beetlejuice Jr.: https://sjchs.ticketsplease.ca/events/beetlejuice-jr/

The Music Man: oops, it’s over :(

The Maltese Falcon: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/events/the-maltese-falcon/Annie auditions: https://volunteersignup.org/LCAXM?fbclid=IwY2xjawRpw6pleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFDZk52U1I0dzhqZ0NyenV6c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmaoqZPw2dlsw8FfMe7tyG4CnDR3cTgh0InElFRuDsjtfRQIBWpzrf5inZIQ_aem_rDDI_vSFpQSW1TW7JmuqVA

The Play That Goes Wrong (Carleton Place): https://mudds.ticketsplease.ca/events/the-play-that-goes-wrong/

Fun Home: https://thegladstone.ca/shows/fun-home/

BBC 4 on Marx's theory of alienation: https://youtu.be/PZ4VzhIuKCQ?si=z_TsmTqJEkl3v08K

What’s Love got to do with Communism? | Richard Gilman-Opalsky: https://youtu.be/Y58h90Tycj4?si=lNOwfz1iUDFmBQU_

David Graeber on the value of work (RSA Shorts): https://youtu.be/tpoJIkqEXYo?si=sq_XQj6Rmtssm9g4

David Graeber - We are already communists: https://youtu.be/87tC_jQ9gHk?si=IvSuN2jbjKE-2O8O

Fiddler on the Roof:

Watch the movie: https://tubitv.com/movies/100002779/fiddler-on-the-roof

Jerome Robbins & HUAC: https://todayinclh.com/?event=dancer-jerome-robbins-names-names-before-huac

Joseph Stein’s politics considered in retrospect by his conservative son: https://www.city-journal.org/article/my-father-fiddler-and-the-left

The World of Sholem Aleichem & Blacklist Era Oppression: https://www.fascinatingworld.org/post/the-world-of-sholom-aleichem-and-blacklist-era-oppression
The War on Memory: Learning From the Jewish Labour Bund: https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/the-night/the-war-on-memory-learning-from-the-jewish-labor-bund

Are we getting in a rut or planting ourselves firmly with room to grow? Emmet & Youssef talk Thornton Wilder, Thorstein Veblen, theatre seating, nostalgia, conspicuous consumption, mortality, presence, the unbearable speed of existence, haunted houses, & more!

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Community Corkboard:

Blood Brothers tickets: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/

Inaugural Perkolator resident artist Laura Mota-Juang: https://www.instagram.com/imnofiction/

Kitchen Theatre Project 24 Hour Play Project Participant Registration:https://forms.gle/5UxchN2PDoqe521q8 

Audience Registration: https://forms.gle/w5iTGM7JnaqNFTW36 

Beetlejuice Jr. at St. John’s High School: https://sjchs.ticketsplease.ca/events/beetlejuice-jr/

Spring on the Mississippi lyrics: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=873164

Our Town:

Read the script: https://archive.org/details/ourtownperennial0000unse

1989 Production with Spalding Gray & Frances Conroy: https://youtu.be/3k_EBbZdUO0?si=s9cplv-YgJOfzuhC

2003 Production with Paul Newman: https://youtu.be/gc1o9cGQ9_Q?si=Q-WfRjvvqvwXrguz 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Q2BwQ87nk/?mibextid=wwXIfr 

Theory of the Leisure Class - BBC 4 “In Our Time”

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m001sdrt

Centre for Popular Economics - on Thorstein Veblen

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

Comfort, Stretch & Panic Zones

https://www.bitesizelearning.co.uk/resources/comfort-zone-stretch-zone-panic-zone

Youssef & Emmet are back for season 2 with an exploration of queer space, bolsheviks, suffragettes, Thatcherites, Caryl Churchill, & the mysterious meanings of character doubling on the stage & in our imaginations.

Community Corkboard:

Hadestown tickets: https://mudds.ticketsplease.ca/hadestown-teen-edition/

24 Hour PlaysParticipate: https://forms.gle/MGPDvuZmJo5aF9yN6 Audience: https://forms.gle/ye2AqU1VocsgrAmA6 

Blood Brothers tickets: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/blood-brothers-musical/

New Moon Magazine: https://newmoongirls.com/

Youssef’s lecture notes: ⁠https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JkN-Ni6hb4GNaQgmXj9L95gM-s5aV7VR/view?usp=drivesdk⁠

“Queer in Space: Kollantai Commune Archive”: ⁠https://youtu.be/tlXIK_oqjBQ⁠

Judith Butler on Gender Theory (BigThink): ⁠https://youtu.be/UD9IOllUR4k⁠

Angela Davis on Mainstream Feminism: ⁠https://youtu.be/bzQkVfO9ToQ⁠

Patricia Hill Collins on ‘Controlling Images’: ⁠https://youtu.be/XVdbyhuAJEs⁠

A Beginner’s Guide to the Suffragettes (Jenny Draper): ​​https://youtu.be/gqHLkmN-HMw?si=QCjPBPgjlXDrVCLL 

Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill (free to borrow online): https://archive.org/details/playsofseventies00corn/mode/1up

Top Girls BBC production

Intro & Act 1: https://youtu.be/iGWD0r0f9Go?si=M0jw9nAHhnVtc098

Act 2: https://youtu.be/LMoY_NthPdI?si=bbFNGRSnZ_3zkZ_u

Interviews: https://youtu.be/hK7ebGa2XXY?si=B0Vto7baBZJkhE4d

Dearest otters, Youssef & Emmet are taking December off for some Unicorn/Hanukkah/thespian/snow/life adventures, & we'll be back in January for SEASON 2!!!

With a topic like time, we just couldn't rush it!

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Emmet’s new website: http://emmet.ca/ 

Lion in Winter: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/the-lion-in-winter/

Songs mentioned in this episode:

Clock of the Heart by Culture Club: https://youtu.be/8tI1_KlO6xI?si=BLua_MYVyCDkP5NP 

Time Trades by Jeffrey Lewis: https://youtu.be/yBdka6rahH8?si=AoWNNq5FTHqica4S

Unicorn Tolerance by the Mountain Goats: https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/unicorn-tolerance-2

A 3-act, centuries-long love affair (abridged) by John Mabey: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2036314/a-3-act-centuries-long-love-affair-abridged

Josh Johnson robot comedy: https://youtu.be/xbOaJ2ZIOOk?si=IV762_w2_Sh7ZyF7 

Rastus robot image: https://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1930-06-27-Richmond-IN-Item-1-rastus-illus.jpg

Rastus & Hattie at the Cleveland Public Theatre (photos & history): https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2019-2020/rastus-and-hattie/

Rastus & Hattie on NPX (read the full script with an NPX account): https://newplayexchange.org/script/2003313/rastus-and-hattie

Rastus & Hattie on Next Stage Press (digital edition $12): https://next-stage-press.myshopify.com/products/rastus-and-hattie-digital-version-available-dec-1

Lynching of Laura Nelson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Laura_and_L._D._Nelson

Dear Tilly Norwood: Some Blunt Advice, Actress to “Actress,” From Betty Gilpin: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tilly-norwood-ai-actress-betty-gilpin-guest-essay-1236396217/

“Another Kind of Time” - interview with Jenny Odell on Emergence podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/conversation/another-kind-of-time/

Long Now lecture on Saving Time by Jenny Odell: https://longnow.org/talks/02023-odell/

Charlie Chaplin - Factory Work (Modern Times, 1936): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fOIk0-igeE

RSA Animate: David Harvey on “The Crises of Capitalism”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0&t=97s

Interview with Kazu Haga on “Fierce Vulnerability” with SAND (podcast): https://scienceandnonduality.com/audio/trauma-in-a-time-of-collapse/

Kazu Haga on Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging from Collapse (UVic lecture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNrrtKRkuNw

Youssef & Emmet discuss anarchy, Lanarky, playwriting, princesses, & taking your praxis to your local fairgrounds.

You Can’t Take It With You tickets: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/you-cant-take-it-with-you/

(King Philip is probably cast by the time this is going up.)

Watch this space for Elf updates (performances in November):: http://www.perthcommunitychoir.com/

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1cC27c01Vk

Joyful Militancy by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman

https://joyfulmilitancy.com/

The Age of Insecurity by Astra Taylor : https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/ideas/2023-cbc-massey-lectures-astra-taylor

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pëtr Kropotkin

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution

When Capital Leaves Town: https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/when-capital-leaves-town

Mitch Hedberg’s car joke: https://open.spotify.com/track/0lAlETl2XvZ50459nyOaks?si=a0386368eb68480a 

Robert E. Lee’s descendant proves his lineage and pushes for ‘honest’ history of racism: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/us/robert-e-lee-anti-racism-descendant

The last queen of Hawaii: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%CA%BBuokalani

Anais Mitchell explains the process of writing “If It’s True”: https://open.spotify.com/track/0QYjsWVnZ2908ACNOoPJ5M?si=327357cce0774ade 

Stop Trying to Save the World, Michael Hobbes https://newrepublic.com/article/120178/problem-international-development-and-plan-fix-it

Foundation for Intentional Community: https://www.ic.org/

Emmet’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/emmlf 

Emmet & Youssef demonstrate our famous co-ordinated lateness, bringing you our August episode in September! Speaking of September, we're talking about one of the most popular Septembery shows in contemporary theatre, & digging into some classical philosophy concerning the nature of truth -- & even applying it to our beloved Hadestown.

Community Corkboard:

Hadestown teen edition auditions with Mississippi Mudds: ⁠https://www.mississippimudds.ca/auditions⁠

You Can’t Take It With You tickets: ⁠https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/you-cant-take-it-with-you/⁠

Watch this space for Elf updates (performances in November): ⁠http://www.perthcommunitychoir.com/⁠

Emmet’s Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/emmlf⁠ – All scripts posted are available to all patrons for a $3 monthly contribution, or individually priced.

Kitchen Theatre Project on instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/⁠ or email Emmet directly: emlfcameron at gmail dot com

How to experience Proof by David Auburn: so many options! For locals, there is a print copy you can borrow from the Kitchen Theatre Project library at the Perkolator in Perth. For not-so-locals, you can likely find a copy either at your local library, or by asking somebody at your local community theatre. (Like I said, it’s a very popular show!) Speaking of community theatre, either David Auburn has intentionally loosened the copyright restrictions or he’s just not very litigious, because there are a bunch of videos of entire amateur productions of this play on YouTube that will come up if you search the title & author, which is fun to look at the range of ways that people have constructed the set & interpreted the characters, soundtrack, etc. You can also listen to the entire play free from LA Theatre Works: ⁠https://latw.org/title/proof⁠, or find this recording on your podcast player of choice, including bonus content about the math & psychological science behind the play, as part of the LATW Relativity series.

Emmet learned the “dead dog” exercise from the podcast “Hot To Write A Play” with Mike Bartlett: ⁠https://shows.acast.com/how-to-write-a-play/episodes⁠

What is a Woman? A Dialectic, A Diagram, A Rant, A Prayer by Kai Cheng Thom: ⁠https://kaichengthom.substack.com/p/what-is-a-woman⁠

Non-Dualism is not Political Neutrality by Kai Cheng Thom: ⁠https://substack.com/home/post/p-171336092⁠

David Harvey on the Contradictions of Capitalism (YouTube): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9dLcGJ5NI0⁠

Understanding (De)alienation in Social Movements (Youssef’s dissertation where you can find more discussion on dialectics, Ch. 2 section 3): ⁠http://hdl.handle.net/1807/103362⁠