CYGNET RADIO HOUR

Cygnet Productions

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Cygnet Productions produces plays and staged readings derived from diverse forms of literature: books, letters, short stories, epic poems, plays, essays, and ephemera. Cygnet Radio Hour is produce as “theatre for the ear.” Our programs are available FREE to all audiences.

01/27/2022

End-of-Season Announcement: Feel every word!

Produced by Cygnet Production for your listening pleasure. All episodes are free to listen and share. Thank you from all of us to all of you! Host & Director: Louanne Moldovan

1 min
12/01/2021

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol. Charles Dicken’s classic Christmas tale is brought to life by a cast of seven using an original script by Lisa Barck Garofalo, a cofounder of Portland’s New Rose Theatre. In this production, Dickens himself narrates the action, giving extra resonance to his vivid characters and the glorious renaissance of Ebenezer Scrooge.

1h 23m
10/30/2021

Withering Looks

Find yourself transported into the front room of the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth where your hostesses Audrey and Olivia will lead you on a romp through the lives and letters of Charlotte Brontë (author of Jane Eyre) and Emily Brontë (best known for Wuthering Heights)—with a few zany detours. The duo's blundering comedy is right out of the British farce playbook.

55 min
10/28/2021

Louanne Moldovan sits with Maggie Fox & Sue Ryding

Listen in as our director Louanne Moldovan connects with the delightful duo Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding of LipService.. described by The Guardian as "the Laurel and Hardy of literary deconstruction.”

33 min
09/05/2021

My Sweetie is Gone!

Oh no, my sweetie is gone! Take a listen to this snappy, catchy duet with the boisterous Gavin Hoffman and Michael Mendelson in this circa Roaring 20s tune composed by the brilliant Rody Ortega for the Cygnet Radio Hour presentation of The Wild Party. Composed by Rody Ortega Based on Bee's Knees by Ted Lewis and Ray Lopez 1922

2 min
09/02/2021

The Wild Party!

The Wild Party is a jazz-age, book-length narrative poem throbbing with passionate rhythms. Louche characters of all sorts engage in colorful debauchery, while main characters Queenie and Burr circle each other in a cynical, dangerous game of sexual power. About the Playwright Joseph Moncure March (1899–1977) was best known for his long narrative poems The Wild Party and The Set-Up. He attended Amherst College and was a protégé of Robert Frost's. He left school to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1918; he participated in the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. In 1919, he was discharged from the Army, returned to school and graduated Honoris Causa in 1920.

1h 12m
09/01/2021

CONVERSATION: Director Moldovan and Professor Sonia Sabnis chat about the Wild Party.

Listen in as Artistic Director Louanne Moldovan and Sonia Sabnis, Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities at Reed College, discuss the power and poetry of language and rhyme in The Wild Party.

34 min
06/26/2021

CONVERSATION: Gemma Whelan speaks about, Faith Healer

Director Louanne Moldovan and Gemma Whelan, artistic director of Corrib Theatre in Portland, Oregon, discuss the power and potency of the language in Faith Healer.

27 min

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Cygnet Productions produces plays and staged readings derived from diverse forms of literature: books, letters, short stories, epic poems, plays, essays, and ephemera. Cygnet Radio Hour is produce as “theatre for the ear.” Our programs are available FREE to all audiences.

Creator

Cygnet Productions
Years Active

2021 - 2022
Episodes

14
Rating

Clean
Show Website

CYGNET RADIO HOUR

CYGNET RADIO HOUR

End-of-Season Announcement: Feel every word!

A Christmas Carol

Withering Looks

Louanne Moldovan sits with Maggie Fox & Sue Ryding

My Sweetie is Gone!

The Wild Party!

CONVERSATION: Director Moldovan and Professor Sonia Sabnis chat about the Wild Party.

CONVERSATION: Gemma Whelan speaks about, Faith Healer

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End-of-Season Announcement: Feel every word!