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Goldfinch Podcast Network

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Goldfinch Productions is a nonprofit organization located in Lacey, Washington, USA. We bring artists together to build all matter of creative works. Goldfinch Podcast Network (GPN) is yet another way for us to engage our audiences. Through radio play adaptations of classic theater to podcasts, mini-documentaries and more, we will stream our work into the homes of our patrons so they may never be without great art. Visit https://GoldfinchProductions.org for more information about the company, our people, and our projects. Thank you for tuning-in. We'll always be here creating #TheaterForAll!

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June 28, 2021

Trifles

While reporting on the sensational events surrounding a murder, newspaper journalist Susan Glaspell saw the opportunity to tell a story of rich characters and deep themes. In August of 1916, she gave the theatrical world Trifles, the story of a man heinously hacked to death at his home and the pursuant investigation. The one-act piece written in the midst of the first wave of the Feminist Movement centers its narrative voice around the women in the story. It is one of the first plays to explore a female character’s perspective and acknowledges the emotional and physical abuse that mars some relationships, a lamentably uncommon plot point at the time. As literary and dramatic critic Sharon Friedman wrote of the play many years later,"Feminism as a theme should not be understood as simply a call for women's rights on the part of the playwright or her characters. Rather, it may be a statement about feminine consciousness, the feelings and perceptions associated with a female character's identity of a woman." Glaspell’sTrifles is an intense, exciting mystery play which we are overjoyed to reinvigorate with this treatment. WHAT: Trifles by Susan Glaspell WHEN: Sunday, June 27, 2021 WHERE: Goldfinch Podcast Network (anchor.fm/gpn) TICKETS: Free, Donations encouraged

April 26, 2021

Saint Joan in America

George Bernard Shaw wrote “St Joan” in 1923, three years after Joan of Arc’s canonization by the Roman Catholic Church. This present-day adaptation will be performed as a radio-play and released on Goldfinch Productions’ Podcast Network on Sunday, April 25. Among acclaimed British Isles playwrights, Shaw is considered second only to Shakespeare. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925 when they celebrated him “for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity.” In his preface to “St Joan,” Shaw wrote, “There are no villains in the piece. Crime, like disease, is not interesting: it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all there is about it. It is what men do at their best, with good intentions, and what normal men and women find that they must and will do in spite of their intentions, that really concern us.” In the original play, we are told the story of Joan of Arc, a medieval teenage girl who leads the French army to victory over English invaders. The young warrior is driven to action by the plight of her starving village only to be burned at the stake when her popularity threatens those in power. In our retelling, Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, stands in for Joan of Arc and the battles she fights are about climate change. This new play follows Thunberg (“Joan”) to America where she fights for climate change regulation, enlisting her new friends Jay Inslee and Kamala Harris and battling climate deniers, represented by the likes of Mitch McConnell and Tucker Carlson. Along the way, “Joan” is met with both resistance and support by such players as Bernie Sanders, Pope Francis, Kellyanne Conway, Pete Buttigieg, Stephen Miller, and Archbishop Timothy Dolan. “Saint Joan in America” is directed and adapted by Ed Thorpe, who also serves as Board Vice President and Resident Dramaturge of Goldfinch Productions. The show is produced and engineered by Kevin McManus, who serves as the company’s Artistic Director. Ed Thorpe says of this production “this season, our company is performing shows that address some of the most powerful issues of our time and we are doing through plays that were written a hundred years ago. Shaw is revered because he wrote plays that examined the great issues of the day and their impact on everyday people. This particular piece talks about the relationship between common people and those who govern them. It took a heroic teenager to spark a change in that relationship. I feel that the play has a message that needs to be heard and the best way to make that happen is to put it in a modern setting with people struggling over the most important issue in world history, climate change.” WHAT: Saint Joan in American – a Radio Play WHEN: April 25, 2021 @ 7pm WHERE: Goldfinch Podcast Network (<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FAnchor.fm%2Fgpn%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3A08N7raX_rp5N1ZHXOfOOeZn_VRY1M1D3f71SNnXdkctrI_6Fw7v2HC0&h=AT2zX26WgCxqT7XmIf8EWb0fNj8UZ5mK1thxIpz8NDPlDt9xzIjxK-hABEWVrRgcD4VfeLAYVaEgx-BI83axw52EXjcBeIFur23egCFR_GpmPE6TqX1jiDp9EA6fXYwbruJVbNU5A_1I2JG01_Jip-J8bA&__tn__=q&c[0]=AT21gEDXhFoNY_zXNxCPokNe3oaugxarhVotDLDt9lFgidgBZWq8mCOm6hXNyHx9nQr-GWacA9BMrEyzAvypXRgmK73CoIoiaKPxmbd0YJQ0FBvf-V3czQuUQv-j-ju_DFmx_HgpB0phXwTt-4J0wxxtYhL54XiMVHkdFq27VZYEgUxB" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Anchor.fm/gpn</a>) TICKETS: FREE, donations encouraged Visit <a href="http://goldfinchproductions.org/?fbclid=IwAR331acwPXHlG7nYLuc_d39a3SjWWAQAA_Ris2d5NPnCL9RmOq9oLJzNEIU" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">GoldfinchProductions.org</a> for more info about our company, our people, and our projects!

March 8, 2021

Rachel

"Rachel" by <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Angelina-Weld-Grimke" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Angelina Weld Grimké</a> was the first play written by an African American with a fully African American cast produced by a theater for a mixed-race audience in the United States. First performed over one-hundred-years ago, this deeply powerful work by Grimké— a journalist, poet, and educator— was written as a response to D.W. Griffith’s filmic celebration of the Ku Klux Klan, “The Birth of a Nation.” The play examines the life of a young African American woman, Rachel Loving, as she comes to realize the dreadful reality of racism in her community and the harm that may come to the black children she brings into this world. The presentation of this marvelous piece in 1916 marked the first time theater was used to enlighten the white community as to the tragic conditions of African American life in the United States. Visit <a href="//GoldfinchProductions.org/donate">GoldfinchProductions.org/donate</a> to make a donation to support our work. And don't forget to "like" and "follow" on <a href="https://facebook.com/goldfinchproductions">social media</a>!

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What is Goldfinch Podcast Network?: Goldfinch Productions is a nonprofit organization located in Lacey, Washington, USA. We bring artists together to build all matter of creative works. Goldfinch Podcast Network (GPN) is yet another way for us to engage our audiences. Through radio play adaptations of classic theater to podcasts, mini-documentaries and more, we will stream our work into the homes of our patrons so they may never be without great art.

Visit https://GoldfinchProductions.org for more information about the company, our people, and our projects.

Thank you for tuning-in. We'll always be here creating #TheaterForAll!
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