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The Jungle (Dramatized)

By: Upton Sinclair
Narrated by: David Catlin, Thomas Cox, Larry Distasi, Christine Dunford, Laura Eason, Joy Gregory, Tom Hodges, David Kersnar, Phil Smith, Heidi Stillman, Andrew White, Temple Williams
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David Schwimmer and Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company created this innovative and heart-wrenching adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s powerhouse novel, in a co-production with

L.A. Theatre Works.

A young Lithuanian immigrant, full of hope, arrives in Chicago in 1904 to work in the stockyards. He and his family soon find themselves processed like the very cattle they slaughter, by the system they dreamed would save them.

Recorded at the Guest Quarters Suites, Chicago in April 1992.

Director: David Schwimmer

Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg

Starring an Ensemble Cast Playing Over 50 Roles:

David Catlin,Thomas Cox, Larry Distasi, Christine Dunford, Laura Eason, Joy Gregory, Tom Hodges,

David Kersnar, Phil Smith, Heidi Stillman, Andrew White, Temple Williams

Radio Producer: Robert Neuhaus. Recording Engineer: Larry Rock. Production Stage Manager: Jan Watson.

Public Domain (P)1992 L.A. Theatre Works Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature Classics Drama Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Political Adaptation Chicago
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Amazing. Shocking how work to immigrants was a daily strife of hard manual labour cheating honest immigrants of fairness decency and their most basic of human rights. And how little behind the lines little has changed. A lesson for mankind in social justice pride and basic humanity.

everyone should listen to this.

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