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Behind the Sheet
Author: Charly Evon Simpson
Narrator: Monica McSwain, Matthew Floyd Miller, Danielle Truitt, Devon Sorvari, Dominique Morisseau, Inger Tudor, Jasmine St. Clair, Josh Stamberg, Karen Malina White, Larry Powell
Unabridged: 2 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 02/15/2020
Synopsis
An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840's Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the experiments proceed, and he gets close to a solution, the women try to survive and even find dignity in the face of inhuman treatment.Includes conversations with playwright Charly Evon Simpson and Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in August 2019.Behind the Sheet is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Rosalind Ayres, Inger TudorProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergMonica McSwain as MaryMatthew Floyd Miller as Samuel and EdwardDominique Morisseau as DinahLarry Powell as Lewis and BenjaminDevon Sorvari as JosephineJasmine St. Clair as BettyJosh Stamberg as GeorgeDanielle Mone Truitt as SallyKaren Malina White as PhilomenaNarrated by Inger TudorAssociate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Sound Designer and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist, Jeff Gardner. Recording Engineer and Editor: Neil Wogensen.
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