Curt Columbus and Janice Duclos celebrate five seasons of Trintiy Rep Radio Theater -- dramatic literature in conversation with our world, featuring Trinity Rep's resident acting company. June's program features short readings, reflection, and an old favorite: from 2007, a reprise of Robert Penn Warren's "A Christian Education," featuring Fred Sullivan, Jr., Stephen Thorne, Janice and Curt. Enjoy!
Curt Columbusand Janice
Duclos welcome Trinity Rep actors Barbara Meek and Rachael Warren to
read and discuss stories about mothers and daughters, featuring "The
Leap" by Louise Erdrich.
Host Curt Columbus
and Trinity Rep actors Janice Duclos, Anne Scurria and
Fred
Sullivan, Jr. read and discuss stories of the games we
play, and how they shape our lives. Our featured story is "Fathers
Playing Catch with Sons," by poet
laureate Donald Hall. Personal narratives from The Sun Magazine give provocative perspectives
Curt Columbus Trinity Rep actors Stephen Berenson, Janice Duclos, and Joe Wilson, Jr. read and discuss stories of home, loss and resilience. In our featured story Joseph Heller's "Castle of Snow," a family confronts unemployment. Personal narratives from The Sun Magazine give provocative perspectives.
Trinity Rep
acting company members Angela Brazil, Janice Duclos and Fred Sullivan, Jr. and
guest artist Mark Peckham join Curt
Columbus and WRNI's Bob Seay.
- Saki's "The
Storyteller"
- children, bored and stuck on a train with their aunt, are treated to a
titillating tale by a mischievous bachelor
- "The
Model"
by Bernard Malamud - an elderly painter meets with a young model
- Ray Bradbury 's "The
Poems" - a
struggling poet makes a thrilling, chilling breakthrough
Trinity Rep company actors Timothy Crowe, William Damkoehler, Janice
Duclos, Barbara Meek, and Rachael Warren read and discuss three stories
with artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay.
The encore program features Curt Columbus , Janice
Duclos, Tim Crowe, William Damkoehler and Mauro Hantman, performing and
discussing O. Henry's short stories "The Ransom of Red Chief" and
"Tobin's Palm."
Resident acting company
members Angela Brazil, Janice Duclos and Joe Wilson, Jr. join /Curt
Columbus join and host Bob Seay. Recorded LIVE at Trinity Rep on May 24,
2010.
Resident company members Janice Duclos, Fred Sullivan, Jr., and Stephen Thorne join Curt Columbus and Bob Seay with three stories by the author of All the King's Men:
Resident acting company members Angela Brazil, Rachael Warren, and Joe Wilson, Jr. join Curt Columbus and Bob Seay with a delicious selection of food writing by Jhumpa Lahiri, Mary Cantwell, Evan Hunter, and Langston Hughes. Dig in!
Recorded with a live audience, resident acting company members Stephen Berenson, Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne, and Rachael Warren read and discuss three stories with Curt Columbus and Bob Seay:
"Bless Me, Father, for I Have Sinned" by Ray Bradbury: A priest hears an eerie confession on Christmas Eve
"Two of a Kind" by Sean O'Faolain: In Brooklyn, strangers become family
"The H Street Sledding Record" by Ron Carlson: One family's holiday rituals paint a quirky, heartfelt portrait
Trinity Rep company members Janice Duclos, Fred Sullivan, Jr., and Rachael Warren read and discuss three stories with artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay.
This 2008 episode features Curt Columbus and company members Anne Scurria, Barbara Meek and Janice Duclos, and a special guest from Trinity Rep's Young Actors Studio, Molly Allen, with stories and poems that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters:
"The Unnatural Mother" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The Sempstress" by Colette
"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid
"Where the Water Is" by Jan Shoemaker
Anne Sexton's poems "Pain for a Daughter" and "Mothers"
Artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay welcome actors Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne, Rachael Warren and Joe Wilson, Jr., performing and discussing the work of American writers in the City of Light: Langston Hughes, Sylvia Beach, David Sedaris and Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes).
Actors Janice Duclos, Phyllis Kay, and Fred Sullivan, Jr. join Curt Columbus and Bob Seay with Dorothy Parker's poems, stories "You Were Perfectly Fine," and "Here We Are," along with Alexander Woollcott's elegy "Our Mrs. Parker."
Trinity Rep resident acting company members Timothy Crowe, Janice
Duclos, Mauro Hantman and Phyllis Kay join artistic director Curt
Columbus and host Bob Seay.
"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway: a couple waits for a train to Madrid
"The Dill Pickle" by Katherine Mansfield: six years later, a couple meets by chance
"A Piece of News" by Eudora Welty: a newspaper gives a woman hope that her husband will finally appreciate her
"Wants" by Grace Paley: a woman encounters her ex-husband of 27 years
Angela Brazil, Janice Duclos, Anne Scurria and Joe Wilson, Jr. join Curt Columbus and Bob Seay for performances and discussion reflecting on years well shared.
"Season of Disbelief" by Ray Bradbury: Mrs. Bentley and the children agree to disagree
"The Cranes" by Peter Meinke: a couple reflects on the life they've shared
"The Richer, the Poorer" by Dorothy West: sisters find common ground
Trinity Rep company actors Timothy Crowe, William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos, Barbara Meek, and Rachael Warren read and discuss three stories with artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay.
"The Catbird Seat": a mild-mannered file clerk pulls off the perfect crime
"A Couple of Hamburgers": a man and a woman get hungry on the road
"The Night the Bed Fell": Thurber's best-known boyhood reminiscence
An encore presentation (2006) featuring James Joyce's "The Dead" (excerpt), Lady Gregory's "The Workhouse Ward," and Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince." Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Rachael Warren join artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay.
An all-new show featuring Grace Paley's "The Loudest Voice," Italo Calvino's "Santa's Children" and Loudon Wainwright's "The Annual Crisis of Love." Joining artistic director Curt Columbus are resident company actors Angela Brazil, William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos and Joe Wilson, Jr.
Tales from the Dark Side features "Wet Saturday" by John Collier and "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe. Starring Janice Duclos, Mauro Hantman, Fred Sullivan Jr., and Rachael Warren with Curt Columbus and Bob Seay.
Excerpts from "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" by Kurt Vonnegut; "Lafayette, Farewell" by Ray Bradbury (Broadcast with the permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc. Copyright 1998 by Ray Bradbury); and "My War," by Diane C. Jaeger, featuring Stephen Berenson, Janice Duclos and Stephen Thorne.
The program features Curt Columbus , Janice Duclos, Tim Crowe, William Damkoehler and Mauro Hantman, performing and discussing O. Henry's short stories "The Ransom of Red Chief" and "Tobin's Palm."
A companion piece to Trinity Rep's production of Shakespeare's Richard III, the show features excerpts from Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, 1984 by George Orwell, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, with performances by Curt Columbus and resident company actors Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Rachael Warren.
The episode features Curt Columbus and company members Stephen Berenson, Tim Crowe and Janice Duclos. Keeping with the theme of Trinity Rep's annual production of A Christmas Carol, the program offers performance and discussion of the holiday-themed work of Charles Dickens: two excerpts from A Christmas Carol; an excerpt from The Pickwick Papers; and excerpts from The Christmas Tree.
The episode features artistic director Curt Columbus and resident company actors Stephen Berenson, Angela Brazil and Phyllis Kay. directed by Janice Duclos. The cast performs and discusses a surprising selection of familiar and "undiscovered" fairytales to intrigue listeners of all ages. Sharing a theme of love and courtship, the stories include: Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," Oscar Wilde's "The Nightingale and the Rose," The Grimm Brothers' "The Clever Farmer's Daughter" and "King Thrush-Beard," and Anne Sexton's poem "Cinderella."
Excerpts from Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathanial Hawthorne and Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, with Janice Duclose, Phyllis Kay, Mauro Hantman, and artistic director Curt Columbus.
This episode features Curt Columbus and company members Angela Brazil, Timothy Crowe and Joe Wilson, Jr. The program compliments Trinity Rep's production of Our Town, with performance and discussion of the work of Thornton Wilder: excerpts from Theophilus North and Heaven's My Destination.
This edition of Trinity Rep Radio Theater focuses on four short stories of Anton Chekhov, adapted by Trinity Rep's artistic director Curt Columbus, who serves as the program's guide into the genius of this prolific 19th century Russian author and playwright. It features Curt Columbus and company members Fred Sullivan Jr, Janice Duclos, and Phyllis Kay in performance and discussion of Anton Chekhov's short stories "The Huntsman," "The Woman without Prejudice, A Drama," and "The Little Trick" as adapted by Curt Columbus.
This
episode features Curt Columbus and company members Janice Duclos,
Barbara Meek, and Fred Sullivan, Jr., performing and discussing the work
of literary and theatrical soulmates Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper,
and Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Originally
aired November, 2007.
Live in Newport!
Trinity Rep Radio Theater: October 2009
After
three seasons recording the program in WRNI's Providence Studio, we hit
the road and welcomed our first audience in August, at the Jane Pickens
Theater and Event Center in Newport. Stephen Berenson, Curt Columbus,
Janice Duclos, Phyllis Kay, and Joe Wilson, Jr. performed and discussed
excerpts from Theophilus North, Thornton Wilder's beloved
portrait of 1920s Newport. This special event is broadcast as a two-hour
program, presented together with another chapter from the novel
recorded in 2007.
