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Play On Podcasts are epic audio adventures reimagining timeless tales, featuring original music composition and the voices of extraordinarily gifted artists. This is where Theatre meets Podcast, combining the modern-day audio phenomenon with the power of live performance.

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  • Avg 44 min
  • English

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  • S23 · E1
    Monday · 30 min

    Titus Andronicus - Episode 1 - Be Not Gauled

    A bloody cycle of revenge is unleashed when the victorious general Titus refuses the imperial crown, permits a human sacrifice, and alienates his own family by following the precepts rigid Roman law.

  • September 14 · 3 min

    Introducing....Titus Andronicus

    Next Chapter Podcasts presents Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy: a brutal revenge thriller that descends into a savage spiral of betrayal, mutilation and cannibalism.

  • August 31 · 43 min

    Introducing...Death of an Artist

    In February 2024, celebrated children’s book author and illustrator Petra Mathers and her husband, photographer Michael Mathers, mailed letters to dozens of friends and family members to let them know they had died by suicide. Petra and Michael were by all accounts healthy, happy, and in love. Why did they choose to die together? And what did that decision do to the people left to mourn them?

  • S23 · E8
    August 24 · 2 hr 56 min

    Full Play - Troilus and Cressida

    Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, Troilus and Cressida, in its entirety.

  • S23 · E5
    August 3 · 32 min

    Troilus and Cressida - Episode 5 - The Molding

    Troilus and Cressida exchange love tokens and bid each other a tearful farewell as Ajax and Hector fight to a draw and the Greek Commanders fawn over their newly delivered prize.

  • S23 · E3
    July 20 · 34 min

    Troilus and Cressida - Episode 3 - The Rising

    Agamemnon gives up on Achilles and encourages Ajax to be their champion, and Pandarus sings a love song to Helen and Paris before finally bringing Troilus and Cressida together in person.

  • S23 · E1
    June 29 · 35 min

    Troilus and Cressida - Episode 1 - The Milling

    During the endless Trojan War, the lovesick Trojan Prince Troilus agonizes over his pursuit of Cressida as the frustrated Greek generals plot to overcome their own divided and insubordinate warriors.

  • June 1 · 55 min

    Bonus Content - Historian Cassidy Cash

    “I fell into Shakespeare!” Historian and podcaster ⁠Cassidy Cash⁠ describes how finding a copy of a play tucked between a Bible and a hymnal in her grandmother’s house in rural Alabama led her into a life of learning about the past, the present, engineering information, painting castles, making podcasts, playing Noddy and knowing what a Link Boy was!

  • May 25 · 51 min

    Bonus Content - Professor Richard Burt

    ***⁠⁠Complete our⁠ listener survey⁠ for a chance to win a $50 gift card!⁠ *** There is no Orthodoxy”: Professor Richard Burt teaches us about the paratext, un-reading Shakespeare, Derrida and Plato in under an hour! With a soothing reminder that writing is both the poison and the remedy... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • May 18 · 38 min

    Introducing...Everybody Knows But Me

    Holly Brown may have grown up right next to Hollywood, but her life was a world away from her 90s sitcom dreams. Instead, Holly’s childhood was filled with family secrets, immense loss, and heartbreaking grief. SO. What’s a girl to do? Create a genre-bending, dark comedy podcast, of course! Welcome to… Everybody Knows But Me: A dark comedy podcast about the secrets we inherit and the stories we tell to survive Holly revisits her dark, twisty past and proves that you actually can make your life into a 90s sitcom, if you only try hard enough. Grab your beanie babies and gushers, and strap in for a story that even Mr Feeny can’t resist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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