Corona Cold Reads: Angels in America: Perestroika

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These are crazy times and we’ve all taken on a bunch of new projects as we socially isolate in order to help stop the spread of Covid-19.

We’re donating where we can, we’re cleaning the pantry, we’re organizing the 2300+ title dvd library. We finished work on the Nominee Interview Series even though the live event for our yearly Critics’ Pick Awards had to be cancelled (we’ve still got trophies to give out, eventually). We started the Corona Movie Club to help curb our boredom and constant need to talk about movies with other human beings. I’m even watching network procedurals and actually writing about them.

But what we all really need is comfort. We need our favourite things and our favourite people and right now those are hard to come by so we have to do everything we can to bring them together whenever possible. Our solution was to gather some of our favourite people every Saturday night throughout quarantine to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of major writers across generations, plus a few bonus episodes thrown in. There’s a lot more to come, so stay tuned.

After our Twentieth Century Classics season, we decided to take on an ambitious two-part coda in the form of Tony Kusher’s seminal Angels in America. Up next is Part 2: Perestroika. Listen to Part 1 HERE.

Listen in audio form below (or on iTunes) then tune into our YouTube page to check out the video versions of all our live readings.

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The Cast of Angels in America: Perestroika-

Stage Directions- Basel Daoud

Prior Walter- Mark Kreder

Harper Amaty Pitt/ The Angel Africanii – Laura Hubbard

Louis Ironson/ The Angel Australia – Michael Ross Albert

Roy M Cohn/ The Angel Antarctica – Christopher Prentice

Joseph Porter Pitt/ The Mormon Father/The Angel Europa – Shawn Wilson

Hannah Porter Pitt/ The Angel Asiatica – Marlo K Shaw

Belize/ The Angel Oceania – Steve Vargo

The Angel/Voice- Gaby Grice

Henry/Mr. Lies- Nicole Falgoust

Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov/Emily- Melissa Wright

Ethel Rosenberg/ Caleb- Elizabeth Morriss

The Mormon Mother /Rabbi Isidor Chelewitz- Shalyn Bass-McFaul

Orrin /Sarah Ironson/Radio – Hilary Wartinger

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