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Lit & Chill

Lit & Chill

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Sara Rodriguez and Darby Vickers provide highlights and insights into literature. These two nerds summarize great classical works and then interview fancy people who engage with the texts in their scholarship or theatrical work.All rights reserved
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  • Suppliants & Chill

    Suppliants & Chill
    Apr 12 2021
    Suppliants & Chill: Stand-alone episode explores Aeschylus' most obscure play, the Suppliants. Whether you’re a student, professor, a literature or poetry fan, or even if you’re just curious about this play, this podcast is for you. Listen to Sara and Darby on-the-go, as they take you through the plot of the play (and tetralogy). Then, these two nerdsinterview Theater of War Productions' Artistic Director, Bryan Doerries as well as performers David Zayas and Dorina Castillo, about their production of the Suppliants. This episode was made in conjunction with the Suppliants Project, created by Theater of War and co-sponsored by Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and University of California, Irvine.
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    38 mins
  • Episode 3 - The Daughters of Night - Oresteia & Chill

    Episode 3 - The Daughters of Night - Oresteia & Chill
    Nov 30 2020
    This is the third and final episode of Season 2 of Lit & Chill. This season-- Oresteia & Chill-- these two nerds discuss the Oresteia, a trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus. Episode 3 summarizes the third play in the Oresteia, Orestes at Athens (or the Eumenides or the Daughters of Night), which dramatizes the trial of Orestes for killing his mother, Clytemnestra. We then discuss the play with Dr. Oliver Taplin, Emritus Fellow at Oxford University.
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    39 mins
  • Episode 2 - Women at the Graveside - Oresteia & Chill

    Episode 2 - Women at the Graveside - Oresteia & Chill
    Nov 29 2020
    This is the second episode of Season 2 of Lit & Chill. This season-- Oresteia & Chill-- these two nerds discuss the Oresteia, a trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus. Episode 2 summarizes the second play in the Oresteia, Women at the Graveside (or the Libation Bearers), which dramatizes Orestes and Electra conspiring to kill Clytemnestra. We then discuss the play with Dr. Andromache Karanika, Associate Professor Classics at UC Irvine.
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    39 mins
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