Produced by Cygnet Production for your listening pleasure. All episodes are free to listen and share. Thank you from all of us to all of you! Host & Director: Louanne Moldovan

A Christmas Carol

Nov 30th, 2021 1h 22m

A Christmas Carol. Charles Dicken’s classic Christmas tale is brought to life by a cast of seven using an original script by Lisa Barck Garofalo, a cofounder of Portland’s New Rose Theatre. In this production, Dickens himself narrates the actio

Withering Looks

Oct 30th, 2021 55m 29s

Find yourself transported into the front room of the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth where your hostesses Audrey and Olivia will lead you on a romp through the lives and letters of Charlotte Brontë (author of Jane Eyre) and Emily Brontë (best known

Louanne Moldovan sits with Maggie Fox & Sue Ryding

Oct 28th, 2021 33m 4s

Listen in as our director Louanne Moldovan connects with the delightful duo Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding of LipService.. described by The Guardian as "the Laurel and Hardy of literary deconstruction.”

My Sweetie is Gone!

Sep 5th, 2021 1m 45s

Oh no, my sweetie is gone! Take a listen to this snappy, catchy duet with the boisterous Gavin Hoffman and Michael Mendelson in this circa Roaring 20s tune composed by the brilliant Rody Ortega for the Cygnet Radio Hour presentation of The Wil

The Wild Party!

Sep 2nd, 2021 1h 11m

The Wild Party is a jazz-age, book-length narrative poem throbbing with passionate rhythms. Louche characters of all sorts engage in colorful debauchery, while main characters Queenie and Burr circle each other in a cynical, dangerous game of s

CONVERSATION: Director Moldovan and Professor Sonia Sabnis chat about the Wild Party.

Sep 1st, 2021 33m 47s

Listen in as Artistic Director Louanne Moldovan and Sonia Sabnis, Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities at Reed College, discuss the power and poetry of language and rhyme in The Wild Party.

Faith Healer

Jun 26th, 2021 2h 7m

Haunting, magical, mystical, Faith Healer tells the story of Francis Hardy, an Irish travelling faith healer, his wife Grace, and his Cockney manager Teddy. This play was voted as one of the 100 most significant plays of the 20th century in a p

CONVERSATION: Gemma Whelan speaks about, Faith Healer

Jun 26th, 2021 26m 50s

Director Louanne Moldovan and Gemma Whelan, artistic director of Corrib Theatre in Portland, Oregon, discuss the power and potency of the language in Faith Healer.

XINGU

Apr 27th, 2021 1h 4m

XINGU By: Edith Wharton Mrs. Ballinger and the ladies of the Lunch Club, that exclusive group dedicated to literature and erudition, are eagerly anticipating a visit by the noted novelist Osric Dane. Her books have been read by all the members

CONVERSATION: DR. JAY DICKSON REFLECTS ON XINGU

Apr 27th, 2021 31m 37s

ADDRESS UNKNOWN

Feb 28th, 2021 51m 22s

This is the book that, in 1938, jolted America into recognizing the Nazi threat. The setting is 1932. Jewish Max lives in San Francisco; gentile Martin has taken his family back to the “new” Germany, where Max’s sister is on the stage. The lett

CONVERSATION: SR. RABBI CAHANA REFLECTS ON ADDRESS UNKNOWN

Feb 28th, 2021 28m 10s

Producer/Director Louanne Moldovan and Senior Rabbi Michael Z. Cahana of Congregation Beth Israel in Portland, Oregon, will discuss why and how Address Unknown is relevant today, for Jews and for people of all faiths (or none).

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CYGNET RADIO HOUR TEASER

Feb 9th, 2021 1m 26s

Cygnet Productions produces plays and staged readings derived from diverse forms of literature: books, letters, short stories, epic poems, plays, essays, and ephemera. In 2021, we launched the companion Cygnet Radio Hour to produce “theatre for

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