HeyJaredNo Script: The Podcast
No Script is a podcast designed to encourage unscripted conversations about theatre’s best scripts. Hosts Jackson Nickolay and Jacob Mann Christiansen sit down every week to discuss some of their favorite plays in dramatic literature, and how they still affect us to this day.
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"Stop Kiss" by Diana Son | S17.E03 (opens the original)
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Jackson and Jacob discuss Diana Son’s play "Stop Kiss." The story follows Callie and Sara, two women whose unexpected friendship develops into something more... and whose first kiss has devastating consequences. It’s a tender, often playful, and popular play. Listen in as J&J examine how Diana Son expertly moves her characters through a series of difficult, can't-go-back decisions! ------------------------------ Please enjoy these other conversations on "Stop Kiss": Marie Bernard's review in The
"Eureka Day" by Jonathan Spector | S17.E02 (opens the original)
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What happens when a community built on inclusivity, empathy, and (especially) consensus suddenly has to make a decision that not everyone can agree on? In Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day, the progressive parents and administrators of a Berkeley private school find themselves facing a mumps outbreak—and a seemingly simple question about vaccination quickly becomes anything but simple. This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob chat about Spector’s sharply funny, deeply uncomfortable play. Listen in!
"A Chorus Line" by by Michael Bennett, Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood Jr., and Nicholas Dante | S17.E01 (opens the original)
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Season 17 has arrived! Jackson and Jacob discuss the landmark musical "A Chorus Line" by Michael Bennett, Marvin Hamlisch, James Kirkwood Jr., Nicholas Dante, and Edward Kleban. Set during an audition for a Broadway musical, this deeply theatrical piece asks what happens when performers are stripped of their characters and asked to reveal themselves. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob explore the show's unforgettable characters, its innovative structure, and its complicated portrait of ambition, ide
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