Episode 36: a special episode of this podcast devoted to excerpts from the play with songs FUGITIVE PIECES on the night of the world premiere of the film version FUGITIVE DREAMS. excerpts performed here are the songs "Mercy, " "The Ballad of the Strung up Man" and "Walking the Weeping Jesus" (words and music by Caridad Svich), and a monologue. FUGITIVE DREAMS premiered at the 2020 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on August 31, 2020. the film is directed, co-written and co-produced by Jason Neulander. it stars April Matthis, Robbie Tann, Scott Shepard, O-Lan Jones, and David Patrick Kelly. The play with songs upon which the film is based FUGITIVE PIECES originally premiered at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas. a revised version - and the current version of the script - premiered at Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin, Texas under Jason Neulander's direction. It was first published in Theaterforum journal, and can also be found in the collection Instructions for Breathing and other plays by Caridad Svich (Seagull Books, distributed in the US by University of Chicago Press), and also in The Land and Country Plays (published by NoPassport Press)..

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