DeScripted

About DeScripted

Actors Randy Hunt and Tyler Costigan host this show where they take a closer look at the plays that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama since it was first awarded in 1918. We'll provide a brief introduction of the play, the playwright, and a synopsis. We'll then discuss how the play was received, it's influence on/by society, notable cast/crew, stories, scandals, fun facts, and some of our favorite lines.

Publisher

Randy Hunt

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

28 Nov 2020

Latest episode

15 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Mar 2026

   Ep 25 - Alison's House by Susan Glaspell

   In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1931 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Alison's House by Susan Glaspell. Note: We recorded this episode in April 2024 but not released until March 2026. Yeah, we know. In this episode we talk about this being our big comeback. Hmmmm. Anyway, we're talking about trying to record a few episodes a year so it doesn't feel too overwhelming. We still want to read and discuss these prizewinning plays! From StageAgent.com (http://stageagent.com/): Susan Glaspell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Alison’s House, takes us to Iowa on the last day of the nineteenth century. The Stanhope family are preparing to say goodbye to their old homestead on the banks of the Mississippi but the house holds a lot of memories for each generation. Their sister and aunt, Alison, has been dead for eighteen years but her influence, both as a poet and a person, remains strong. Aunt Agatha is fiercely protective of her sister’s reputation and legacy, but what is she hiding? When disgraced daughter Elsa returns home, old wounds are opened and it becomes clear that her scandalous relationship with a married man is not the first in the family. Like Elsa, Alison also fell deeply in love but, unlike her niece, she let her lover go and channeled her secret passions into her poetry. Unable to bring herself to burn the pages, Agatha finally relinquishes the poetry to Elsa and reveals Alison’s secret. ******* IN OUR NEXT EPISODE ******* Join us as we discuss the 2004 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright.   Based on a true story, and inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright over several years, I AM MY OWN WIFE tells the fascinating tale of Charlotte (pronounced Shar-lotta) von Mahlsdorf, a real-life German transvestite who managed to survive both the Nazi onslaught and the repressive East German Communist regime. DeScripted Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod (https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod) X: @DeScriptedPod - https://x.com/descriptedpod Instagram: @DeScriptedPod - www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod (http://www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod)

2. 

   28 Jan 2024

   Ep 24 - Doubt, A Parable by John Patrick Shanley

   In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Doubt, a Parable" by John Patrick Shanley. From Encyclopedia.com (http://Encyclopedia.com): Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, Doubt concerns an older nun, Sister Aloysius, who does not approve of teachers' offering friendship and compassion over the discipline she feels students need in order to face the harsh world. When she suspects a new priest of sexually abusing a student, she is faced with the prospect of charging him with unproven allegations and possibly destroying his career as well as her own. To help build her case, she asks for help from an idealistic young nun, who finds her faith in compassion challenged, and the mother of the accused boy, who is protective of her son, the first black student ever admitted to St. Nicholas. ******* IN OUR NEXT EPISODE ******* Join us as we discuss the 1931 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Alison's House by Susan Glaspell. From StageAgent.com (http://StageAgent.com): Susan Glaspell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Alison’s House, takes us to Iowa on the last day of the nineteenth century. The Stanhope family are preparing to say goodbye to their old homestead on the banks of the Mississippi but the house holds a lot of memories for each generation. Their sister and aunt, Alison, has been dead for eighteen years but her influence, both as a poet and a person, remains strong. Aunt Agatha is fiercely protective of her sister’s reputation and legacy, but what is she hiding? When disgraced daughter Elsa returns home, old wounds are opened and it becomes clear that her scandalous relationship with a married man is not the first in the family. Like Elsa, Alison also fell deeply in love but, unlike her niece, she let her lover go and channeled her secret passions into her poetry. Unable to bring herself to burn the pages, Agatha finally relinquishes the poetry to Elsa and reveals Alison’s secret. DeScripted Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod (https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod) Twitter: @DeScriptedPod - www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod (http://www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod) Instagram: @DeScriptedPod - www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod (http://www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod)

3. 

   12 Dec 2022

   Ep 23 - The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly [1930 Winner]

   In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1930 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly. From Encyclopedia.com: The Green Pastures follows stories of the Bible, such as Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and the crucifixion of Christ, but places them in a rural black southern setting. Thus, one of the opening scenes takes place at a “fish fry” in “pre-Creation Heaven,” during which God spontaneously decides to create Earth and man. God eats boiled pudding, smokes cigars, and runs Heaven out of a shabby “private office” assisted by Gabriel. The settings are roughly contemporary to the time period in which the play was first written and performed, so that, for instance, the city of Babylon is represented as a New Orleans jazz nightclub. The costumes are also contemporary: God wears a white suit and white tie, Adam is dressed in a farmer’s clothes, Eve wears the gingham dress of a country girl, and so on. The play ends with God’s decision, while back at the fish fry in Heaven, to send Jesus Christ down to Earth. ******* IN OUR NEXT EPISODE ******* Join us as we discuss the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Doubt, a Parable" by John Patric Shanley. From Encyclopedia.com: Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, Doubt concerns an older nun, Sister Aloysius, who does not approve of teachers' offering friendship and compassion over the discipline she feels students need in order to face the harsh world. When she suspects a new priest of sexually abusing a student, she is faced with the prospect of charging him with unproven allegations and possibly destroying his career as well as her own. To help build her case, she asks for help from an idealistic young nun, who finds her faith in compassion challenged, and the mother of the accused boy, who is protective of her son, the first black student ever admitted to St. Nicholas. DeScripted Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod (https://www.facebook.com/DeScriptedPod) Twitter: @DeScriptedPod - www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod (http://www.twitter.com/DeScriptedPod) Instagram: @DeScriptedPod - www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod (http://www.instagram.com/DeScriptedPod)

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