Why Voices and what did we learn?
I’m running a little behind on these (too busy making new plays!) – but on the 14th of June we released our production of Voices by Hortense Flexner: this is my analysis of the play, our production, and what we learned from our visit with the spirit of Joan of Arc.
Hortense Flexner King (1885-1973) was an American poet, playwright and professor (thus spake Wikipedia). She was a brilliant mind, a fine writer, and a feminist – so naturally I wanted to include a piece of her work. But, well, Voices isn’t her best. So why the heck did I choose it?
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We have a Youtube channel with all our radio plays subtitled and on a playlist, which means if you pick one, press play, and reduce the window, you can happily leave it playing in the corner. Also, if English isn’t your first language or you’re curious about the text, this is a good way to get a better understanding of the play.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcYVQaH7KSsEgFB7Q-s0L7w
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Soundcloud is our main host. It has a number of advantages that make it really easy to give your followers and friends direct access. This is the way to do it if you’re a real soundy/tech-wiz.
The first thing to do is make sure you follow us. If you have a Facebook account, you can log in using Facebook. Otherwise, an email address will do. It’s the orange button on the right beneath the banner logo.
You can listen to the plays, as well as liking, listening, or leaving comments (which we’d really appreciate!)
You can also share an episode via any social media platform you like by hitting the share button.
If you have a blog, you can embed one of our episodes in one of your blog posts. Add a couple of sentences talking about who we are and what we do (feel free to just copy and paste it from this website, or our Facebook page, or our twitter page.) After which , I will share and retweet your blog – hopefully bringing a few new readers back your direction. Essentially, Soundcloud is the best way to have the most direct control over sharing and exploring our audio content.
How to get the embed code:
Clicking on share will bring up this screen:
How to paste it into your blog:
What it looks like afterwards:
Putting interactive content like this in your blog is likely to increase traffic, both because it’s interesting in itself and because it will pull in traffic from us to you. Everyone wins!
Radio isn’t a particularly visual medium! But, if you like that sort of thing, we share our artwork, pictures of rehearsals, other stuff our artists are up to and whatever entertains us on Pinterest and Instagram. We’d love to hear from you!
