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An excerpt from our Edinburgh Fringe show This Moment in America, an open letter to Rand Paul from a frustrated constituent.

Want to see us in person? This Moment in America runs through August 28th at Underbelly Cowgate, 12:40PM each day. 

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Live from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland!

We are in the middle of a full month's run of This Moment in America at the Edinburgh Fringe. Playing at Underbelly Cowgate at 12:40PM each day (tix at thismomentinamerica.org), this micro episode is a sample from the show.

As you'll hear in the intro, this piece was included for two reasons:

1. Our travel to Scotland coincided with the floods in Eastern Kentucky (you can donate to the recovery effort at this Kentucky government link: https://secure.kentucky.gov/FormServices/Finance/EKYFloodRelief). Being based in Louisville, KY, which is in a different part of the state, to see our neighbors - our fellow Kentuckians - so devastated was heartbreaking. We wanted to respond somehow. This piece is our response.
2. In our Submissions request (see all of them at thismomentinamerica.org), one request is for essays/monologues/ruminations on the prompt, "Where I'm From."

I (Clara) am originally from Chattanooga, a city in the foothills of Appalachia, in East Tennessee. The landscape looks just like those pictures you see of the flood ravaged areas, and I felt compelled to respond to some of the insensitivity and downright meanness that was being directed toward people in the flood affected areas. There's so much to understand about the region, if only we'd be willing to listen - and I'm including myself in that. I'm now an Appalachian expat, so while my level of understanding starts from a different place than those who are not from the region, I am not personally impacted by the floods, nor am I currently living in the region.

We'd love to hear your own "Where I'm From" writing! See how to submit at thismomentinamerica.org.

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 Waiting...
a micro-drama written and performed by Clara Harris

To learn more about writing and performance workshops to promote community and personal healing, visit http://swampwitchstudio.com/thismomentinamerica/

 

Join our Artistic Director, Clara, chat about the inspiration behind the MicroDrama Series: From the Backyard.

Links Mentioned:

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Yoga & the Artist's Way - Yoga with Clara

Yoga with Clara partner episode

This Moment in America: Quarantine Edition

Night Owl Theatre Update

This Moment in America 
(Oops, I mentioned that this announcement would come after this episode. In fact, it came before it.)

Find out when the International Space Station will be flying over your house!

Storytelling is a bridge to understanding.

Join us in building a bridge through stories that help us understand and unpack big moments in the wider social/cultural/political sphere by thinking about the small, individual points on that sphere.

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This Moment in America is a community story-sharing project to promote community and personal healing. 

We want to hear your story.

Visit swampwitchstudio.com/thismomentinamerica to raise your hand.

What can you expect to hear from Night Owl Theatre in the coming months? Listen and find out!

 

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Prison Yard

Written & Performed by Clara Harris

part of the Night Owl Theatre MicroDrama Series: Backyard Edition

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Flyover States
Written & Performed by Clara Harris
part of the Night Owl Theatre MicroDrama Series: Backyard Edition

You're invited to participate! Learn more about the community storytelling project, This Moment in America at http://swampwitchstudio.com/this-moment-in-america/

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Earth Blanket
Written & Performed by Clara Harris
part of the Night Owl Theatre MicroDrama Series

In memory of Richard Bosler

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Whirligig
Written & performed by Clara Harris
for the Night Owl Theatre MicroDrama Series

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Is saying goodbye ever easy?

In November 2014, the European Space Agency landed a probe on Comet 67P. Known as Philae, this was the primary goal of the Rosetta mission - a 10-year journey from launch to landing. The Philae lander did not anchor into the comet, however, but rather bounced three times, landing in a shaded spot, unable to adequately charge its solar panels.

Philae - Clara Harris
Sam - Megan Massie
Cal - Jordan Price

written by Clara Harris

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Take a peek behind the curtain in this behind the scenes episode of Night Owl Theatre. Our most recent episode, This Moment in America: Quarantine Edition, is the first part of a larger project that invites listeners to reflect on our present and immediate past, and to share their story so we can create a broader understanding of one another as we move forward into the future - however uncertain and unusual that future may at first appear.

Get updates about new episodes and upcoming events (virtual and - eventually - live) at https://bit.ly/NightOwlUpdates

Links mentioned in the episode:
Arvon, the organization where I attended the radio drama writing course https://www.arvon.org/
Donata Cuccinata https://www.instagram.com/sopranodonata/

Swamp Witch Studio presents

a Night Owl Theatre production

This Moment in America: Quarantine Edition

A series of 30-second to 6-minute long micro-audio dramas inspired by and featuring the sounds of everyday life of people in quarantine in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sounds were submitted by listeners over the course of 36 hours in mid-April 2020.

This production was commissioned by Louisville Arts Network, in partnership with Lift Up Lou.

This Moment in America is a project of Night Owl Theatre to share the perspective of people who live in the nooks and crannies of a vast country that is struggling with its identity in a politically charged time.

Night Owl Theatre is an audio drama podcast that seeks to increase our capacity to understand one another through storytelling so that we may grow in empathy and compassion towards our better selves.

Swamp Witch Studio presents Night Owl Theatre's Micro-Audio Drama Series.

Quarantine
Written & Performed by Clara Harris

In this micro-audio drama series, a story is inspired by up to two minutes of ambient sounds, featured as the soundtrack of the episode.

Swamp Witch Studio presents Night Owl Theatre's Micro-Audio Drama Series.

Waves
Written & Performed by Clara Harris

In this micro-audio drama series, a story is inspired by up to two minutes of ambient sounds, featured as the soundtrack of the episode.

When a Supreme Court Justice dies suddenly, those who knew him wrestle with their personal loss and the wider ramifications of losing a friend who is a very public, much reviled figure.

 

A Death in Texas

Written by Clara Harris

Directed by Ben Evans

 

Cast

Jonathan O’Brien as Nate Williams

Clara Harris as Ellen Hardy

Devin Bundrent, Eliza Donahue, Ben Evans, and Megan Massie as The Reporters

 

A Death in Texas, Copyright 2018.

All rights reserved.

If you would like to purchase a copy of the script, or license the work for your production, please email contact@swampwitchstudio.com.

Additional credits and information available at http://swampwitchstudio.com/

 

Music

Chogo El Bandeño

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chogo_El_Bandeo/En_vivo_desde_su_sala/

 

Calostro

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Calostro/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lia_nadja/Supersecreto_Anplag/05-Soy_como_el_espacio

 

Erick de Jesus

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Erick_de_Jess/Las_Chilenas_de_Mxico_EP/04_In_coacoe

The Haunting of Sighisoara

Written and Directed by Clara Harris

 

Cast

Terry Schwab as The Husband

Rita Hight as The Wife

Tamara Dearing as The Mother

Megan Massie as The Assistant

Paul Kerr as The Elder

Clara Harris as The Midwife

 

Audio Engineering and Editing Clara Harris

The Haunting of Sighisoara, Copyright 2018.

All rights reserved.

If you would like to purchase a copy of the script, or license the work for your production, please email contact@swampwitchstudio.com.

 

Closing Music

Spaces of L by Kosta T

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kosta_T/Relax_Violin/Kosta_T_-_Relax_Violin_-_08_Spaces_of_L

 

For a list of all other music and sound effects, please visit http://swampwitchstudio.com/music-and-sfx-credits-01/