Are you ready for a ghost story? This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob discuss Naomi Iizuka's eerie play Language of Angels, which takes place in cave country in North Carolina. Listen in! >>PLEASE NOTE: A previous edition of this episode included a small editing mistake about halfway through the episode. We apologize for this and it has been corrected. Thanks! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No...
May 24, 2021•54 min•Ep. 140
This week on No Script, Jacob is joined by special guest K Edmonds to discuss Dominique Morisseau's play Detroit '67 . Edmonds directed the play for Albion College in fall of 2020. Listen in as Jacob and Edmonds discuss the way Morisseau has layered her incredible characters and complex worldview into this funny, poignant play about the long hot summer in Detroit. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script...
May 17, 2021•59 min•Ep. 139
This week of No Script begins a pair of episodes about Detroit. On this episode, listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss Lisa D'Amour's play "Detroit." A play about new neighbors, suburban nostalgia, and authenticity, "Detroit" was a nominee for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ------------------------...
May 11, 2021•55 min•Ep. 138
Returning from (Original) Masters Month, Jackson and Jacob revisit a playwright from Season 2! David Lindsay-Abaire's play Ripcord is a sharp, irreverent comedy about roommates in a senior living facility. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss Lindsay-Abaire's structuring and creative imagination! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ----...
May 03, 2021•57 min•Ep. 137
It's the final week of Season 6's themed month: Original Masters Month. In this episode, Jackson and Jacob discuss the famous bawdy comedy "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ----------------------------- We want to keep the conversation going! Have you read this play? Have you seen it? Comment and...
Apr 27, 2021•56 min•Ep. 136
In Week 3 of (Original) Masters Month, Jackson and Jacob welcome a new playwright to the podcast: the famous Euripides! His play "Medea" is one of the great masterpieces of the Ancient Greek library.... even though it only won third place in its initial competition. Listen in as J&J discuss this titanic tragedy. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/no...
Apr 19, 2021•53 min•Ep. 135
In their second episode of (Original) Masters Month, Jackson and Jacob take on one of the great masterpieces of the stage: "Antigone" by Sophocles. Listen in as J&J discuss the theme of moral obligation to the family versus moral obligation to the state. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ----------------------------- We want to keep...
Apr 13, 2021•58 min•Ep. 134
(Original) Masters Month has arrived! During April, Jackson and Jacob will release four conversations about Ancient Greek scripts. This week, J&J discuss one of the bizarre comedies in Aristophanes' library: "The Birds." ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ----------------------------- We want to keep the conversation going! Have you ...
Apr 05, 2021•56 min•Ep. 133
In the last episode before Season 6's Themed Month, Jackson and Jacob take on one of the titans.... both the playwright AND the play. George Bernard Shaw's gargantuan script "Man and Superman" is both a witty domestic comedy and a steely Socratic dialogue. Listen in as J&J talk about Shaw's reputation and the script's incredible intricacies. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can contin...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 132
Jeremy O. Harris' play "Slave Play" has taken Broadway by storm. Earning an incredible number of Tony nominations, the play was THE ticket in NYC before the pandemic. This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob discuss this wonderful, challenging, engaging script. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ----------------------------- We want to ...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 131
Avante garde playwright and director María Irene Fornés is known for her visually stunning and symbolic works. "What of the Night" was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It's a collection of four plays, and remains one of her most memorable pieces. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob weave their way through her dream landscapes! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. http...
Mar 15, 2021•56 min•Ep. 130
This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob discuss one of the classic comedies of the stage. Molière's play "Tartuffe" chronicles a wealthy household in distress as the religious hypocrite Tartuffe slowly takes over. The play was banned from the French stage for some time upon its initial writing: listen in to Jackson and Jacob talk about why! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue....
Mar 08, 2021•56 min•Ep. 129
One of the great playwrights of the 20th century, Alice Childress has been often overlooked in theatre history. Her play "Trouble in Mind" is a frank look at the racism which saturated the theatre of her day... and too often still saturates the theatre of our day. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss this dark comedy! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.co...
Mar 01, 2021•56 min•Ep. 128
This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob travel back in time to visit a play some theatre thinkers have called, "the best play ever written." In "The Cherry Orchard," Anton Chekhov explores a group of Russian aristocrats whose lives are changing even as the world changes around them. Listen in as J&J discuss the subtle, inspiring brilliance of Chekhov. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcas...
Feb 22, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 127
This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob take on Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Pulitzer Prize-nominated script "Gloria." When a shocking workplace tragedy upends the life of several cubicle employees, questions about the ownership of stories and trauma are raised. This dark comedy is fascinating in its structure! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpod...
Feb 15, 2021•57 min•Ep. 126
Anne Washburn's play "Mr. Burns" is a delightfully weird take on the apocalypse. After a catastrophe has collapsed the power grid, and civilization as we know it, how will humanity hold on to our stories? This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob dive into the wonderful world of the Simpsons... but 80 years after a television ever turned on. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can...
Feb 08, 2021•55 min•Ep. 125
In Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World , playwright Yussef El Guindi takes a popular American genre, the romantic comedy, and adds his own delightful twist. This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob discuss the wonderful new elements Guindi has brought to this popular form! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ------------------------...
Feb 01, 2021•58 min•Ep. 124
Steven Dietz is one of America's most prolific playwrights. This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob discuss one of his only plays to make it to New York - "Lonely Planet." The play tells the story of two men during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Listen in as J&J examine the play's strange new context. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptp...
Jan 25, 2021•57 min•Ep. 123
Pulling again from the robust library of Pulitzer Prize-winning scripts, Jackson and Jacob return for the second episode of Season 6! "Anna in the Tropics" by Nilo Cruz is a delightful, poetic, and highly engaging play about a time when cigars were hand rolled and lectors still read aloud from great novels. When a new lector arrives at a family cigar factor in Tampa, he brings along Tolstoy's great novel "Anna Karenina." How will the novel disrupt the patterns of the factory? -------------------...
Jan 18, 2021•56 min•Ep. 122
Season Six begins with another Pulitzer Prize winning play! "Cost of Living" by Martyna Majok is a sharp play full of heart. It follows two caretaking relationships with wildly different contexts. This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob break down how these journeys mirror and oppose each other. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast -----...
Jan 11, 2021•55 min•Ep. 121
In this final episode of Season Five, Jackson and Jacob return to the list of Pulitzer Prize winning plays and discuss Quiara Alegría Hudes' surprising, inventive script "Water by the Spoonful." The play dramatizes robust online communication while also using powerful visual imagery. It is the second play in Hudes' "The Elliot Trilogy." This is the last episode of Season Five. The boys of No Script will take a short break and return in early 2021! See you then! ------------------------------ Ple...
Nov 30, 2020•56 min•Ep. 120
This week on No Script, Jackson is joined by special guest Maria Booth to discuss the musical "Once," which tells the story of singer-songwriters in Ireland. Maria, a singer-songwriter in Ireland herself, brings a unique perspective on the script. If you've never listened to the "Once" soundtrack... do yourself a favor and look it up! You can also look up Maria and her music here: https://marianickolay.bandcamp.com ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as l...
Nov 23, 2020•55 min•Ep. 119
It's the second week of a two part series on No Script. Last week Jackson and Jacob looked at Ibsen's famous "A Doll's House." This week, the boys discuss a new play that's sweeping the nation (or was, before COVID): "A Doll's House, Part 2" by Lucas Hnath. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ----------------------------- We want to keep ...
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 118
In part one of a two part series, Jackson and Jacob explore Henrik Ibsen's famous drama "A Doll's House." When the play was released, it was so controversial that many theatres refused to perform it. Next week, J&J will discuss "A Doll's House, Part 2" by Lucas Hnath. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ----------------------------- W...
Nov 09, 2020•58 min•Ep. 117
In their first episode back after Monologue Month, Jackson and Jacob discuss a play that's sweeping the regional professional theatre scene. The Goodman Theatre's production of the show was postponed by the pandemic, but a recording of their production was briefly available online. The script, of course, is "School Girls: Or, the African Mean Girls Play" by Jocelyn Bioh. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to en...
Nov 02, 2020•54 min•Ep. 116
It's the final episode of Monologue Month! The concluding episode of this season's themed month is a discussion of perhaps the most famous and celebrated one person show of all time, written by one of the most famous and celebrated playwrights of all time: "Krapp's Last Tape" by Samuel Beckett! Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodca...
Oct 26, 2020•59 min•Ep. 115
In Episode 3 of Monologue Month, Jackson and Jacob visit one of the titans of the form: Anna Deavere Smith. Smith is well known and well lauded for one person shows like "Twilight: Los Angeles" and "Fires in the Mirror." This week, the boys discuss her sweep through American history: "House Arrest." ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ---...
Oct 19, 2020•57 min•Ep. 114
It's the second week of Monologue Month, which means Jackson and Jacob are continuing their weekly examinations of one person shows. This week? The Pulitzer Prize-winning play "I Am My Own Wife." Doug Wright's loving portrait of a complicated human being is the stuff of dramatic masterpiece. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast -----------...
Oct 12, 2020•50 min•Ep. 113
It's the first episode of Season 5's Themed Month: Monologue Month. During October, Jackson and Jacob will discuss four one-person shows. This week? That famous ode to the Women's Rights Movement: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ----------------------------- We w...
Oct 05, 2020•59 min•Ep. 112
Charles Fuller's script for "A Soldier's Play" was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - just the second play by a black playwright to win the award. The story is specific, engrossing, and brilliantly told using devices that play with time and space. Listen in this week as Jackson and Jacob discuss this American masterpiece. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www...
Sep 28, 2020•53 min•Ep. 111
