Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival
Co-founded by Carol Becker and David Henry Hwang, this marquee annual festival presents readings of three plays by living international playwrights alongside conversations with the playwrights and translators. © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Creative Commons License. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Podcasting since 2020 • 11 episodes
Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival
Latest Episodes
Playwright Panel Discussion 2021
Playwrights Asiimwe Deborah Kawe (Uganda), Nick Makoha (England), and Dima Mikhayel Matta (Lebanon), in conversation with Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival Co-Founder David Henry ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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58:48
This is not a memorized script, this is a well-rehearsed story
Queerness is a construct. So is language, and so is this play. Nothing about this performance is reliable. The performer questions gender, memory, sex, identity, and her relationship with Beirut — but gives no answers.THIS ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:30
The Dark
In the heat of a November night in 1978, after eight years of civil war, four-year-old Nick and his mother flee their homeland of Uganda. What unfolds is a story of those who find themselves exiled, told through a series of voices echoing from ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:10:24
Appointment with gOD
A group of nervous visa applicants in an unnamed country sit in a waiting room, trading stories and tips on how to best present themselves before US consuls — the “gODs.” Their reasons for coming to the US vary, but will the gODs consider them?...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:10:23