Bay FM - 99.9FM Episode first aired on 10 June 2021 at 11:00 am The Covid Monologues
This week join Riddhi and special guest Michael Borenstein as they present Covid Monologues from the 2020 collection - Dear Australia - 50 playwrights send postcards to the nation , a project from Playwriting Australia, featuring pieces that capture a moment in history where a pandemic changed everything.
In conjunction with the Mullumbimby Drill Hall Theatre Company with production assistance from SAE Creative Media Institute in Byron Bay we present 10 of these stories.
Hello Australia by Wiillow Weiland - read by Greg Aitken
The Stretching Cloth of Silence by Finegan Kruckemeyer - read by Peter Gough
Limbo by Stephen Carleton - read by Jill Benham
Distance by Mark Rodgers - read by Tin Winton-Brown
Woman at the Bottle-o by Catherine McKinnon read by Sonia Borenstein
Delivery by Tasnim Hossain read by Geoffrey Moon
Ladies Against Lockdown by Sam Nerida - read by Shelagh Pepper
Long-Gone Distant Future by Kathryn Ash - read by Mike Russo
Our Lot 44 by Anchuli Felicia King - read by Chis Benaud
Baby, I’m Home by Ellen van Neervan - read by Alex Benham
Track listing 11:00:10: *** Intro - *** Hello Australia by Wiillow Weiland - read by Greg Aitken The Stretching Cloth of Silence by Finegan Kruckemeyer - read by Peter Gough Limbo by Stephen Carleton - read by Jill Benham Distance by Mark Rodgers - read by Tin Winton-Brown Busby Marou - Better Be Home Soon 11:24:14: Woman at the Bottle-o by Catherine McKinnon - read by Sonia Borenstein Delivery by Tasnim Hossain - read by Geoffrey Moon 11:33:40: Ladies Against Lockdown by Sam Nerida - read by Shelagh Pepper Mavis Staples - We Shall Not Be Moved Long-Gone Distant Future by Kathryn Ash - read by Mike Russo Our Lot 44 by Anchuli Felicia King - read by Chis Benaud Baby, I’m Home by Ellen van Neerva - read by Alex Benham Björk - Virus