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The Animals Podcast Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy and Katherine Bucknell
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- 社會與文化
Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, a celebrated novelist and a talented painter, were openly gay in conservative 1950s Hollywood. In private, they called themselves The Animals. Simon Callow and Alan Cumming read their love letters; Katherine Bucknell reveals secrets they kept even from their friends, a galaxy of star writers, artists, stage players and movie makers in L.A., London, and New York. The series is capped by a play the lovers wrote together, A Meeting by the River, starring Dominic West, Kyle Soller and Penelope Wilton, and directed by Anthony Page.
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Coda: Don Bachardy at Eighty-two
With an appearance by Don Bachardy.Don Bachardy, from the home he shared with Christopher Isherwood in Santa Monica, talks about the 1979 Broadway production of A Meeting by the River, about his relationship with Chris, and about Vedanta.
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Episode Ten: A Meeting by the River, Directed by Anthony Page, Act II
Playful sparring between the brothers deepens to rivalry and self-doubt. Patrick’s secret love life is exposed. Spiritual darkness closes around Oliver, and he calls upon the memory of his guru to show him a way forward. Dominic West, Kyle Soller, Penelope Wilton and Annabel Mullion star in this audio adaptation of Isherwood and Bachardy’s A Meeting by the River.
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Episode Nine: A Meeting by the River, Directed by Anthony Page, Act I
Two brothers confront each other in a monastery beside the Ganges. One plans to renounce the world, the other tries to stop him. Adapted by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy from Isherwood’s last novel, A Meeting by the River is a daring, ruthless, and joyfully comic meditation on the nature of love and the question of whether god exists. Dominic West, Kyle Soller, Penelope Wilton and Annabel Mullion star in this audio production.
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A Meeting by the River: Trailer
A play by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy.
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Episode Eight: “Our Play”
Chris adapts a George Bernard Shaw story for the LA stage to much acclaim; Don is commissioned to paint the Queen’s cousin, the Earl of Harewood, and sells a portrait of W.H. Auden to the National Portrait Gallery in London. A Meeting by the River is staged in Los Angeles to a warm reception and heads to Broadway.
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Episode Seven: “Unfinished Work and Unfulfilled Duties”
Chris thinks increasingly about his past as he continues writing a memoir about his mother and father, Kathleen and Frank. He and Don both work towards a production of A Meeting by the River, hoping Page will direct it at the Royal Court Theatre. There is an explosion between Don and Page.
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