Literary Soundtracks: Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

Today, our playlist is inspired by Joan Didion's novel, Play It As It Lays, originally published in 1970. The novel centers on Maria Wyeth, a woman in the 1970s confined in a psychiatric hospital. What unfolds in Maria’s history is somehow both comforting and alienating, baffling and yet still incredibly knowable. I found myself drawn to soundscapes…

An Interview with Kyle Berlin of Rhizome Theater Company

Kyle Berlin is an independent theater-maker, writer, and social-practice artist. He is the co-founder of Rhizome Theater Company, which makes socially-engaged documentary theater in communities around the nation. Rhizome’s signature work is a play entitled “Nice Town, Normal People,” which is…

the 7Siblini JournalOctober 17, 2018theater, social activism, california, rhizome theater company, home, acting

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