This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob begin a 4 week series on David Henry Hwang. Hwang is one of America's premiere playwrights, shaping the present and future of drama. His play M. Butterfly catapulted him into prominence and remains one of the best American plays of all time. 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 ---------...
Apr 04, 2022•52 min•Ep. 170
This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob come back to Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. One of America's foremost contemporary playwrights, Jacobs-Jenkins writes plays that are challenging, uncomfortable, and so, so smart. His play Appropriate is a stark portrait of the legacy of racist violence in the American south. ------------------------------ 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...
Mar 28, 2022•52 min•Ep. 169
This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob talk about a play with HUGE name recognition and fascinating production challenges. Qui Nguyan's play She Kills Monsters is an adventurous reflection on grief and loss. Listen in as J&J discuss D&D! ------------------------------ 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 conve...
Mar 21, 2022•54 min•Ep. 168
Larissa FastHorse is a contemporary indigenous playwright. Her play The Thanksgiving Play was inspired by FastHorse's experience of trying to tell indigenous stories on the American stage - and the frustration of the blockades in place. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss this satiric new(ish) play! ------------------------------ 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 ...
Mar 14, 2022•54 min•Ep. 167
Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes is an American classic. It tracks the changing landscape of the post-Civil War South by following one corrupt family as they attempt to make their fortune. Listen in this week as Jackson and Jacob discuss this piece of American history. ------------------------------ 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 ---------------------------...
Mar 07, 2022•54 min•Ep. 166
This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob discuss a musical that changed the landscape of musical theatre in America. "Rent," by the late Jonathan Larson, is the story of friends in New York City. Listen in as J&J chat about Rent' s unlikely origins, vignette structure, and overall investigation of love. ------------------------------ 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/noscriptpo...
Feb 28, 2022•57 min•Ep. 165
This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob discuss Jen Silverman, who made her No Script debut in Season 1. Silverman's play That Poor Girl and How He Killed Her is uncomfortable, poignant, funny, and oh-so-relevant. 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 yo...
Feb 21, 2022•56 min•Ep. 164
In the second episode of Season 8, Jackson and Jacob revisit Dominique Morisseau. As one of America's most impressive contemporary playwrights, Morisseau's work tracks pressing issues in our society. Her play Pipeline examines the American education system and its impact on one family. Listen in as J&J dive in to this moving piece. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https:...
Feb 14, 2022•55 min•Ep. 163
Welcome back to No Script! Season 8 begins with a Pulitzer Prize-winner. Join Jackson and Jacob for a discussion on Stephen Adly Guirgis' play Between Riverside and Crazy . This script is a powerhouse of scene writing, showing off some of Guirgis' strongest characters in conflict. ------------------------------ 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 07, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 162
In the final episode of Season 7, Jackson and Jacob return to one of America's great dramatists: Suzan-Lori Parks. This week, J&J cover one of her earlier plays: Venus . In this loose adaption of a true story from the 1800s, so much of what makes Parks the playwright she is can be seen and appreciated. 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/n...
Dec 20, 2021•57 min•Ep. 161
This week on No Script, Jackson hosts the season's SPECIAL GUEST! Jana Latchaw Milbourn joins Jackson to discuss a play she's recently directed: AR Gurney's The Dining Room . 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? Comme...
Dec 13, 2021•56 min•Ep. 160
After a month of murder, Jackson and Jacob are delighted to return to regular programming for the last three weeks of the season. This week on No Script, J&J discuss The Chronicles of Kalki by Aditi Brennan Kapil. Kalki re-imagines the final avatar of the god Vishnu as a teenage monster slayer who must intervene in the life of two high schoolers. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Po...
Dec 06, 2021•54 min•Ep. 159
For the last week of Murder Month, Jackson and Jacob discuss a documentary theatre piece about the murders of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. Emily Mann's Execution of Justice is a verbatim script about the trail of Dan White. 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 goi...
Nov 29, 2021•56 min•Ep. 158
Jackson and Jacob return to Murder Month this week with a loose adaption of Agatha Christie. Lloyd Suh's Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery is a play about writing a play, in which the playwright takes on racist portrayals of Asian Americans in American media. 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 ---------...
Nov 22, 2021•54 min•Ep. 157
MURDER MONTH is on pause! Taking a break from all the death, Jackson and Jacob visit a classic old comedy from the Pulitzer Prize list. You Can't Take it With You (George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart) is a story about a "slightly mad" family (according to Kaufman) whose lifestyle is brought under scrutiny. ------------------------------ 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 ...
Nov 15, 2021•56 min•Ep. 156
MURDER MONTH Episode 2! This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob explore a very different play than Macbeth . Murder is still the subject of the day, but murder in a very different light... Deathtrap by Ira Levin is a comedy thriller where murder becomes the first solution to any problem. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob laugh their way through this crazy play! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Pod...
Nov 08, 2021•54 min•Ep. 155
MURDER MONTH has arrived! In this first episode of Season 7's themed month, Jackson and Jacob launch into their conversations on killing with perhaps the most famous murder play of all time: Shakespeare's Macbeth . Listen in as J&J discuss the ghastly consequences of guilt on the human soul. ------------------------------ 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 -------...
Nov 01, 2021•56 min•Ep. 154
Tarell Alvin McCraney's play Choir Boy is sweeping the nation. This empathetic portrait of teenagers at a prep school is full of music, poetry, and challenges to power. This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob explore the wonderful complexity of McCraney's characters. ------------------------------ 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 25, 2021•51 min•Ep. 153
Yilong Liu's The Book of Mountains and Seas is a buddy romp through New York City... about grief! Liu's sense of humor shines through in this script. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss the juxtaposition of myth and modernity this week. ------------------------------ 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 g...
Oct 18, 2021•56 min•Ep. 152
This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob visit one of America's great lyrical, poetic masters: Lanford Wilson. His play Talley's Folly is a short romance set in a gorgeous boathouse. Oh... and Jackson was in it! 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 r...
Oct 11, 2021•57 min•Ep. 151
Hanay Geiogamah is one of the first indigenous people to have a play published in the United States. His Foghorn is a satirical chastisement of the way indigenous people are stereotyped in the American media. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss how Geiogamah uses juxtaposition to create a huge impact. ------------------------------ 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/noscriptpodcas...
Oct 04, 2021•56 min•Ep. 150
In their first sponsored episode of No Script history, Jackson and Jacob discuss Jaclyn Backhaus' play Men on Boats . Based on a true story, the script follows a group of intrepid explorers who set out to map sections of the Colorado River. The characters - historical persons - are all cisgender white men. The cast? Not so much. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss this rousing tale that asks questions of how we understand American history. ------------------------------ Please consider suppor...
Sep 27, 2021•56 min•Ep. 149
In their second discussion on playwright Lauren Gunderson, Jackson and Jacob discuss her play The Revolutionists. The play is loosely based on the lives of four women who lived during the French Revolution. With modern dialogue, meta-theatre comedy, and several beheadings, The Revolutionists is a fascinating play to talk about. 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. htt...
Sep 20, 2021•56 min•Ep. 148
Quiara Alegría Hudes is a highly lauded playwright whose recent (re)entrance into the popular culture is due to writing the book for In the Heights . Jackson and Jacob have come to Hudes before - discussing her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water by the Spoonful . This week on No Script, J&J discuss the first play in the Elliot trilogy: Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue . ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Scri...
Sep 13, 2021•57 min•Ep. 147
This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob visit a new playwright to the podcast: Gina Gionfriddo. Her play Rapture, Blister, Burn was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Join J&J as they explore this comedic look at the history and present practice of American feminism. ------------------------------ 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 ---------------...
Sep 06, 2021•54 min•Ep. 146
Paula Vogel is one of America's great playwrights. This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob return to Vogel's body of work once again. This time, they explore her charming and heartfelt play-tribute to her brother: The Baltimore Waltz . ------------------------------ 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 goi...
Aug 30, 2021•55 min•Ep. 145
Episode 1 of this season was a (fairly) brand new musical. Now, in one of the great whiplashes of No Script history, Jackson and Jacob pivot entirely and visit an American classic by (perhaps) the greatest male American playwright: Tennessee Williams. His play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is often called his greatest work. 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.pat...
Aug 24, 2021•58 min•Ep. 144
No Script is back! In this first episode of Season 7, Jackson and Jacob discuss the 2020 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson. ------------------------------ 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 tell us your...
Aug 16, 2021•56 min•Ep. 143
For the last episode of Season Six, the boys of No Script discuss one of Jacob's favorite musicals of all time: Company by Stephen Sondheim. Jackson and Jacob discuss Sondheim's lyrical genius, and the play's odd structuring. Though the season may be ending, never fear! No Script will return in late summer or early fall with Season Seven! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. htt...
Jun 07, 2021•56 min•Ep. 142
For the first time, Jackson and Jacob visit Eugene Ionesco, one of the master playwrights of the 20th century. Ionesco's vision for the theatre and it's literature has had far reaching consequences. This week, J&J discuss his best known full length work: Rhinoceros . ------------------------------ 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...
May 31, 2021•56 min•Ep. 141
