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Front Row: David Mamet; The Glorias and Moxie reviewed; Danielle Evans

David Mamet; The Glorias and Moxie reviewed; Danielle Evans

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David Mamet; The Glorias and Moxie reviewed; Danielle Evans' short story collection.

David Mamet on his play, The Christopher Boy's Communion; double review of two films with feminist takes, The Glorias and Moxie; Danielle Evans on her collection of short stories.

David Mamet's latest play, The Christopher Boy’s Communion is about a couple in New York whose son is facing trial charged with an appalling crime.  First performed on the stage in Los Angeles last year, it’s premiers in the UK in the form of a radio play next week.  He discusses the tricky issues it deals with and how he adapted a lengthier stage play it for radio
(BBC Radio 4, Monday 8 March 8, 1415) 

In this week’s Friday Review, critics Karen Krizanovich and Jan Asante discuss two films with different perspectives on feminism: The Glorias, written and directed by Julie Taymor and starring Alicia Vikander and Julianne Moore, which focuses on the life of the American feminist, writer and activist Gloria Steinem, and the US high school drama Moxie, directed by and starring Amy Poehler. 

American writer Danielle Evans talks to Kirsty about her second short story collection, The Office of Historical Corrections, which offers a kaleidoscopic exploration of what it is to be African American in the modern USA and uses the short story form to meditate on themes of history and memory.   

Our occasional series dedicated to moments of joy returns with games writer Jordan Erica Webber, who argues that even at the end of the universe one can find peace and happiness as in the game Outer Wilds. 

Presenter: Kirsty Lang 
Producer: Jerome Weatherald

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