This is the podcast companion to the New Athens Players, a theater company in the Quad Cities -- the home of Susan Glaspell and her husband George Cram Cook. The two of them founded the Provincetown Players, a cutting-edge and influential group in the development of American drama. The name "New Athens" is based on a remark Cook made to Floyd Dell, that they should go back to Davenport and make it a "New Athens." The dream was never fulfilled in his lifetime: Cook died in Greece in 1924. This podcast will include audio recordings related to the legacy of Glaspell and the Provincetown Players.
New Athens Players Podcast
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This is the podcast companion to the New Athens Players, a theater company in the Quad Cities -- the home of Susan Glaspell and her husband George Cram Cook. The two of them founded the Provincetown Players, a cutting-edge and influential group in the development of American drama. The name "New Athens" is based on a remark Cook made to Floyd Dell, that they should go back to Davenport and make it a "New Athens." The dream was never fulfilled in his lifetime: Cook died in Greece in 1924. This podcast will include audio recordings related to the legacy of Glaspell and the Provincetown Players.
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December 29, 2025
The Anarchist: His Dog (1912) [narrated by Michael Callahan]
<p>Glaspell's story about a plucky little paper boy and the dog he ends up feeling tremendous affection for was originally published as "The Anarchist—His Dog: The Story of Stubby’s Fight for Hero" in American Magazine in June 1912, and was included in Glaspell's collection of short stories, Lifted Masks, in the same year. As often in Glaspell's works, a character's (or a society's) attitude toward an animal illustrates and symbolizes larger themes. The story touches on serious politics without adopting a heavy-handed approach. It is narrated here by Michael Callahan.</p>
December 14, 2025
Strindberg: The Stronger [featuring Elissa Dynes]
<p>One of the creative influences on the Provincetown Players, especially on Eugene O'Neill, was the Swedish writer August Strindberg (1849-1912). In January 1924, the company staged Strindberg's one-act play The Spook Sonata (also known as The Ghost Sonata), in the English translation by Edwin Bjorkman. Strindberg's bleak modernism, his highly subjective, expressionistic style and his formal experimentation were all aspects of his approach to theater that made an impression on O'Neill and others. No less a factor was his attention to "chamber" theater pieces, played in the "Intimate Theater" that was active 1907-1910 in Stockholm, one of the direct inspirations for the "Little Theater" movement in the United States of which the Provincetown Players was a part. The present piece, a short play in which there is only one speaking role, although there are two characters on stage, paved the way for Eugene O'Neill's experimental short play / monologue "Before Breakfast," released earlier this season on this podcast. It represents a married woman, "Mrs. X," who meets an unmarried friend, "Ms. Y," in a small café on Christmas Eve, and as Mrs. X talks to her silent companion, she slowly reveals the details of her life and marriage, and ends up making a terrible discovery. The play script was prepared by Mischa Hooker, partly translating, partly adapting from existing public domain translations by E. and W. Oland (1912); E. Björkman (1913); and F. I. Ziegler (1906). Mrs. X is played by Elissa Dynes, and the narrator is Mischa Hooker.</p>
November 23, 2025
Glaspell: One's Self-Respect (1911) [narrated by Jane Simonsen]
<p>Originally published in Red Book Magazine in July 1911, "One's Self-Respect" is a fairly early story of Susan Glaspell that had been neglected and forgotten through decades of collection and study of her work, but was brought to light (along with a few other stories) by Noelia Hernando-Real in a chapter of Susan Glaspell in Context, edited by J. Ellen Gainor (Cambridge, 2023); in one section of the chapter, Veronica Makowski offers an analysis of the story, which depicts Edith Stuart, the main character, spending a requisite period of residence in Reno, Nevada, in pursuit of a divorce. (At the time, Reno was known as the "Divorce Capital of America" on account of the relative ease with which this could be obtained there.) In the process, she finds new female friends and ultimately ponders what she really wants and what she is willing to put up with, while maintaining her "self-respect." This exploration of the difficulties faced by women in the early 20th century when it comes to marriage and divorce in a general way prefigures Glaspell's 1915 novel, Fidelity.</p>
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