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The cast members of Organic Theatre's production of Huck Finn join Studs to talk about their roles. Includes some dramatic readings from the actors. Content Warning: This conversation has the presence of outdated, biased, or offensive language. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
Studs joins the two English actors to discuss their careers and the drawing-room comedy Lloyd George Knew My Father. Includes some recordings of their dramatic readings.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
The Irish actress joins Studs to discuss some of her roles and to perform some dramatic readings.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
The Irish actress joins Studs to discuss some of her roles and to perform some dramatic readings.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
The actor and political activist shares with Studs her thoughts on the state of theater and civil rights. Includes clips of Terkel's interviews with Dee and Ossie Davis at the 1963 March on Washington, and a clip of the activist poet John Beecher.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
The actor, director, and playwright of the Goodman Theater's Panto (AKA Pantomine) join Studs to discuss its major themes of colonialism and racial role reversal.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
The acting and teaching couple discuss their Five Stories project - a theater production which draws on works by Chekhov, Faulkner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and James Joyce. This program also includes a clip of William Faulkner speaking.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
The English actress and the founding director of Chicago's Court Theatre discuss their staging of John Osborne's The Entertainer and the demise of music hall tradition as metaphor for the waning of the British Empire.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
Studs joins the Puerto Rican-born American playwright and actor to discuss the play Short Eyes. Kathy Slade from Free Street Theater also participates in the discussion.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
The English actor and singer talks about his performance in Edward Bond's The Sea, at The Goodman Theatre, which would end up being his final role on stage.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
Marion Anderson, soloist, and James DePreist, conductor, sit down with Studs Terkel prior to their Grand Park Weekend Concert where "Berjack Symphony No. 2 or 7" will be played with the 'Copland Preamble for Solemn Occasion" as well as a group of Negro Spirituals with "Ava Maria". Marian Anderson begins the interview by singing "Erlkonig" and concludes with "Ava Maria". She discusses the early influence of the first Negro arts singer, Roland Hayes had on her in Philadelphia and his "He Never Said a Mumberlin' Word" is played. Both Anderson and DePreist discuss how song becomes drama.