Historical Intersections II | NSD Act II Scenes 1-5

Virginia, Mark and Jordan (with continued support from the TOSOS acting company) return for Act II of Doric Wilson's Now She Dances!. For this episode's history break, we resume our discussion of the play's relationship to its times.

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References from Episode Six

Moloch, The Machine - YouTube clip from Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Sabina From Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth - YouTube Clip, 1983 Old Globe Theatre production

Removal from list of psychological disorders (1973) - NIH National Library of Medicine Article

First out elected politician (1974) - NBC News Feature Article

NYC Bankruptcy / Ford to City: Drop Dead (1975) - History Channel Video

Don't Ask Don't Tell (1993) - History Channel Article

Will & Grace (1998, 2017) - Vox Article

Matthew Shepard (1998) - "Our Story" page from The Matthew Shepard Foundation Website

Salome's Modernity (2011) - Scholarly work by Petra Dierkes-Thrun