David Naimon
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4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
David Naimon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Mandela was at the time in solitary confinement.
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But it inspires him later to also put on a reading of the play in prison.
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Where he chooses, I think interestingly, to play Creon.
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Creating yet another subversion in the dialectic.
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And I just wondered if any of this brings out another layer for you around around the play.
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Well, before we hear another question from another, uh I was hoping we could have another reading.
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There's a a letter from the narrator to the theorist on page fifty eight and fifty nine, where she picks up a copy of Antigone and then writes a letter.
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Been listening to Claudia Rankin read from Triage.
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One of the main ways you incorporate visual art in triages with periodic artistic engagements or images of artistic engagements with couches, from sculpture to painting.
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Our narrator says various things about couches, such as a couch being an intermediary space between collapse and living, quote, to fall into the pause before the
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return of more, but also a place of defeat when she says, I wrote about couches because what else is there once one's fallen away from faith in each other, confidence in the good, trust in ourselves?
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And the theorist often sees the narrator
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as on the couch, so to speak, in a negative way.
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For instance, the narrator says,
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The power in powerlessness came not in falling, but in letting myself fall, controlling when, how, getting up.
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But the theorist completes the thought and the sentence in her trenchant way by saying,
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in order to look around and do nothing,
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But what is more clear outside of words in the images of the couches is most of these couches aren't even really serving their couch specific purposes, as a reprieve, as a place to recharge, as a place to tune out.
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The couches are often mutilated or even made of concrete.
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They've rejected their own function in a sense.
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