Can a new society arise from a cataclysm? Does humanity deserve a second chance? Chicago author and journalist Natalie Moore joins a virtual audience to explore utopia, dystopia, and the radical imagination while discussing the great Chicago dramatist's "What Use Are Flowers?".

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Listen to Lorraine Hansberry’s What Use Are Flowers?:
https://makebelieve.fm/flowers

 

Listen to Natalie Moore and Jeremy McCarter’s City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919:
https://makebelieve.fm/city-on-fire

 

Credits for this episode:

Hosted by Jeremy McCarter

Music, mixing, and mastering by Mikhail Fiksel

Graphics and social media by Carly Pearlman

 

Credits for What Use Are Flowers?:

Directed by Daniel Kyri

Music by Mikhail Fiksel

Sound by Erisa Apantaku and Mikhail Fiksel

Production manager - Madeleine Borg

Stage manager - JC Widman

 

Cast:

Hermit – Billy Branch

Charlie – Daniel Kyri

Lily – Khloe Janel

William – Tevion Lanier

Narration read by Kiayla Ryann

 

Thank you to the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust for allowing us to produce the audio drama; and to the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation and the Poetry Foundation for making season one possible