Our Decameron: Lorraine Hansberry at the End of the World Make-Believe

Can a new society arise from a cataclysm? Does humanity deserve a second chance? Chicago author and journalist Natalie Moore joins a virtual audience to explore utopia, dystopia, and the radical imagination while discussing the great Chicago dramatist's "What Use Are Flowers?".
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Listen to Lorraine Hansberry’s What Use Are Flowers?:
https://makebelieve.fm/flowers
 
Listen to Natalie Moore and Jeremy McCarter’s City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919:
https://makebelieve.fm/city-on-fire
 
Credits for this episode:
Hosted by Jeremy McCarter
Music, mixing, and mastering by Mikhail Fiksel
Graphics and social media by Carly Pearlman
 
Credits for What Use Are Flowers?:
Directed by Daniel Kyri
Music by Mikhail Fiksel
Sound by Erisa Apantaku and Mikhail Fiksel
Production manager - Madeleine Borg
Stage manager - JC Widman
 
Cast:
Hermit – Billy Branch
Charlie – Daniel Kyri
Lily – Khloe Janel
William – Tevion Lanier
Narration read by Kiayla Ryann
 
Thank you to the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust for allowing us to produce the audio drama; and to the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation and the Poetry Foundation for making season one possible