A Wacky Play About a Global Pandemic That Came True
Host Tjaša Ferme chats with playwright Chisa Hutchinson about her play, Bleeding Class. Chisa was aiming to write a wacky satire about a global pandemic, but then everything came true. She says she’s ...
15 Apr 202541min
Meltdown, an Opera About Two Thousand Ice-Elephants Melting Every Second
Host Tjaša Ferme chats with David Cote and Hai-Ting Chinn about their opera, Meltdown. This is an adventurous episode about arctic expeditions, drilling ice cores, what monodrama really means, and cre...
1 Apr 202538min
Brecht and Sister Sylvester Defy Authority in Theatre
Host Tjaša Ferme talks to multimedia artist Sister Sylvester about Drinking Brecht/Good Genes, which cautions how simplistic readings of genetics have always led to fascism. Join a label-defying conve...
25 Mar 202535min
Bringing Theatre to the Virtual Town Square
Creative director and choreographer Brandon Powers takes host Tjaša Ferme on a deep exploration of the merging of extended reality (XR) with theatre. He explains how theatremakers’ knowledge as spatia...
18 Mar 202545min
A Virtual Reality Climate Musical with Synchronized Swimmers
Host Tjaša Ferme has a lighthearted chat with director, choreographer, and filmmaker Mary John Frank about the climate, virtual reality (VR) musicals, why VR works better in “one take,” and how and wh...
11 Mar 202530min
Creating a Cinematic Opera with Artificial Intelligence
Host Tjaša Ferme and media artist Ellen Pearlman discuss Ellen’s projects Language is Leaving Me and Noor: A Brain Opera. They go on a deep, granular dive into the loab: the psychic, unconscious, dark...
4 Mar 202546min
BodyMouth, a New Instrument Created by a Playwright
In this conversation with Kat Mustatea we chat about her piece, BodyMouth, that is also a new instrument where a dancer’s movements prompt a speech synthesizer. For an extra twist, we ponder if we cou...
25 Feb 202538min
