Several years ago Genesius Guild founder Don Wooten recorded a number of long-form play introductions as a podcast. Two of those podcasts were about shows that we are producing this summer: Romeo & Juliet and Electra. As a teaser for our upcoming season, we invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy Don Wooten's introduction to Romeo & Juliet! Credit…

CREDITS Floyd Dell, King Arthur's Socks Gwen (Guenevere Robinson) - Chelsea Ward Vivian (Vivian Smith) - Liz Sager Mary - Anna Schneider Lancelot (Lancelot Jones) - Mischa Hooker Narrator - John Turner Poetry Reading John Turner read poems by Arthur Davison Ficke Liz Sager read poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay Director / Organizer / Sound Editor: M…

Welcome to our second holiday special! We give you first a touching family Christmas story, "Christmas at Red Butte," by Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables. Next, a Christmas meditation by Charles Dickens, entitled "A Christmas Tree." In this piece, the author of "A Christmas Carol" offers, instead of a story, a set of reminis…

Stephen Leacock's "Oroastus: A Greek Tragedy" is a satirical essay by the early 20th-century Canadian humorist (who lived 1869-1944) on contemporary perceptions and performances of Greek tragedy in a college setting. "Oroastus" was published in 1923, and included in Leacock's collection of pieces on the theatre, "Over the Footlights." Performed by …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is best known as one of the most popular 19th century British poets, the author of famous pieces such as "Ulysses," "Crossing the Bar," and his multi-part treatment of Arthurian legend, "The Idylls of the King." Like many poets before and after, however, he also turned his hand to poetic drama, somewhat in the vein of Shakesp…

In 1915, two Davenport, Iowa, natives, Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, started a theater group in Provincetown on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, which turned out to have a profound influence on American drama forever. This visionary new company, the “Provincetown Players,” had humble beginnings in the private home of some sympathetic friends: Neith …

George Bernard Shaw is a universally acknowledged classic playwright in the modern British theatre, known equally for his great wit and his theatrical influence. Genesius Guild has repeatedly staged two favorites over the years, "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets" (most recently in 2001), and "Don Juan in Hell" (most recently in 2012). The little play "…

Hamlet, prince of Denmark. Shakespeare's play was last presented on the Genesius Guild stage in Lincoln Park in the summer of 2019. For today's presentation, you will hear the story of the play along with excerpts from the play. Tales from Shakespeare: In the early 19thcentury, the Romantic poet Charles Lamb and his sister Mary embarked on an enter…

Join us for a reading of T.S. Eliot's classic essay "Hamlet and His Problems" from The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. Read by Mischa Hooker.

Suppressed Desires by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook Cast Narrator: Kitty Israel Henrietta: Mattie Gelaude Stephen: Andrew Bruning Mabel: Jo Vasquez Director / Organizer / Sound Editor: Mischa Hooker Sound effects: Mischa Hooker and Caroline Ford Intro / outro music: Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra, “Smiles” Theme music: Chopin, Waltz in A flat Ma…

Join us as we listen to Don Wooten discuss the first play ever performed by the Genesius Guild: Sophocles' Antigone. Wooten discusses the show, describes the plot, and explores the play's themes - including questions of the separation of religion and government and the battle between following an unjust law and following one's conscience.…

Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Although less well known than his Oedipus Rex and Antigone, this play has especially received notice lately in Seamus Heaney’s adaptation entitled “The Cure at Troy” – with the evocative words spoken by the chorus: “History says, don't hope / On this side of the grave. / But then, once in a lifetime / The longed-for tidal wa…

Enjoy this radio theater production of A Christmas Carol by the Genesius Guild in Rock Island, IL! Credits Narrator - Susan Perrin-Sallak Scrooge - Mike Carron Fred (Scrooge's Nephew) - Phil Tunnicliff Gentleman - Scott Tunnicliff Bob Cratchit (Scrooge's Clerk) - Jake Walker Marley's Ghost - Phillip Dunbridge Ghost of Christmas Past - Arc Simmons-C…