Andy and Danny discuss the new play Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle with playwright Alexander Perez and director Toney Brown! Tickets available for free at the link below! http://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/randys-dandy-coaster-castle/

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Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle by Alexander Perez

On this episode of Better than Shakespeare, Andy and Danny take a break from reading plays and read some of Bertolt Brecht's wonderful poetry! His poetry includes the same humor, bitter critique, and utopian hope as his plays, but with a somewhat surprising lyrical tenderness. We hope you enjoy!

Brecht Poetry Special!

Andy and Danny discuss post-colonial transition in The Tragedy of King Christophe by the great playwright and poet Aimé Césaire! E-mail Andy at andyjamesboyd@gmail.com for a scan of the play. It's not easy to find but well worth the effort!

The Tragedy Of King Christophe By Aimé Césaire

Andy, Danny, and special guest Fainan Lakha discuss Aimé Césaire's classic play A Tempest, based on a much inferior play by some English guy. This is a rebroadcast of an episode originally published in 2019.

A Tempest by Aimé Césaire

On this episode of Better Than Shakespeare, Danny and Andy discuss farce as revolutionary propaganda through the play We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! by Italian playwright Dario Fo! Plus, Andy reveals who Lynn Nottage thinks should win the Nobel Prize instead of Dario Fo. For the record, Andy thinks Lynn should win it.

We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo

On this episode of Better than Shakespeare, Andy and Danny discuss the play Toussaint Louverture by CLR James.

Toussaint Louverture by CLR James

Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist A Play by Andy Boyd Directed by Kim Kerfoot Scene 3: Years of the Great Break Cast: Jeff Gonzalez plays Lev Brett Radke plays Daniel Ben Schrager plays Sean

Three Scenes In The Life Of A Trotskyist - Scene 3

Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist A Play by Andy Boyd Directed by Kim Kerfoot Scene 2: Literature and Revolution Cast: Jeff Gonzalez plays Lev Freddie Fulton plays David

Three Scenes In The Life Of A Trotskyist - Scene 2

Hello, friends! Please enjoy this original audio play by BTS host Andy Boyd! Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist A Play by Andy Boyd Directed by Kim Kerfoot Scene 1: The Stalin School of Falsification Cast: Jeff Gonzalez plays Lev Brett Radke plays Daniel Ben Schrager plays Louis and Paul Yoni Bronstein plays Ben

Three Scenes In The Life Of A Trotskyist - Scene 1

On this episode of Better than Shakespeare, Andy and Danny talk about Andy's play The Trade Federation, out now from NoPassport Press! https://www.lulu.com/de/de/shop/andy-boyd/the-trade-federation-or-lets-explore-globalization-through-the-star-wars-prequels/paperback/product-8wr68g.html

The Trade Federation, or, Let's Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels by Andy Boyd

Andy and Danny discuss the anti-feudal farce The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais. We read this translation: https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/holcroft-the-marriage-of-figaro-or-the-follies-of-a-day#preview Here is a clip from Danny's favorite staging of the opera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAYqk7jppL4

The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais

Andy and Danny discuss Geologists by Yang Limin, which traces the history of China from the 1960s to the 1990s through a group of geologists working in oil exploration in China's far northwest.

Geologists by Yang Limin

Andy, Danny, and a special guest discuss Che Guevara by Huang Jisu, Zhang Guangtian, and Shen Lin. Note: This is a repost of a previous episode. We recommend listening to this episode along with Geologists by Yang Limin. They provide strikingly contrasting views on the legacy of Communism in China. The script for this play can be found here: https://u.osu.edu/mclc/online-series/noble/

Che Guevara by Huang Jisu, Zhang Guangtian, and Shen Lin

On this episode of Better Than Shakespeare, Andy and Danny discuss Romulus The Great by Friedrich Durrenmatt!

Romulus The Great By Friedrich Durrenmatt

Aeneas, Danny, and Andy discuss The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca.

The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca

Better than Shakespeare is a podcast dedicated to socialist theatre. Each week we discuss a different play relevant to socialist struggle in its aesthetic, historical, and theoretical context. There are also jokes. The core team is Andy Boyd and Danny Erickson, but we also have a rotating roster of stellar guests from the worlds of theatre and socialism and socialist theatre.

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