To Best The Beast
05/31/23 • 26 min
A day in the lives of Mayor Toad, big boss Peahen and a hard-working assistant Ant. They launch a clean energy project designed to better lives. But when Tortoise asks some difficult questions about who gets the benefits and who feels the impacts, sparks are sure to fly.
To Best The Beast was written by Krishnee Bhotooa. Find the transcript here.
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Written by KRISHNEE BHOTOOA
Directed by ASHISH BEESOONDIAL
Starring:
YAKSHINEE PURHOOA as Tortoise
SONIA MAISSIN as Mrs Peahen
ASHISH BEESOONDIAL as Ant
ESTELLE LASÉMILLANTE as Mayor Toad
Sound design, audio mixing and recording engineer KOOSHAL DWARKA
Additional audio mixing RICHARD FEREN
Episode produced by CAUDAN ARTS CENTRE with support from SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS
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Created by SUNNY DRAKE
Produced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRE
Lead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUV
Concept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONG
Impact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY
Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN
Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN
Series funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council
See our website for full credits - it truly does take a village to raise a podcast.
A day in the lives of Mayor Toad, big boss Peahen and a hard-working assistant Ant. They launch a clean energy project designed to better lives. But when Tortoise asks some difficult questions about who gets the benefits and who feels the impacts, sparks are sure to fly.
To Best The Beast was written by Krishnee Bhotooa. Find the transcript here.
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Twitter: twitter.com/sunny_drake
--- CREDITS ---
Written by KRISHNEE BHOTOOA
Directed by ASHISH BEESOONDIAL
Starring:
YAKSHINEE PURHOOA as Tortoise
SONIA MAISSIN as Mrs Peahen
ASHISH BEESOONDIAL as Ant
ESTELLE LASÉMILLANTE as Mayor Toad
Sound design, audio mixing and recording engineer KOOSHAL DWARKA
Additional audio mixing RICHARD FEREN
Episode produced by CAUDAN ARTS CENTRE with support from SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS
--- SERIES CREDITS for CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SMALL TALK ---
Created by SUNNY DRAKE
Produced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRE
Lead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUV
Concept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONG
Impact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY
Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN
Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN
Series funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council
See our website for full credits - it truly does take a village to raise a podcast.
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Climate Change and Other Small Talk is a worldwide tour for your ears - minus the carbon footprint and lost luggage. Audio dramas from 9 creative teams around the globe will entertain as well as explore our climate crisis. And maybe even what could get us out.
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Written and directed by CARMEN AGUIRRE
Starring:
MONTSERRAT VIDELA SAMPER as Esperanza Soto
LILI ROBINSON as The Drone Operator
CHARLIE DEMERS as The Floor Supervisor and Friend
Sound design and music by JOELYSA PANKANEA
Episode Produced by ELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE with support from SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS
Episode Producers CARLA RITCHIE and NATALIE LEFEBVRE GNAM
Episode Production Manager CARLA RITCHIE
Audio mixing by HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN
Recording engineer MONARCH STUDIOS
Special thanks to BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver Cultural Services, Canada Council for the Arts, Monarch Studios, and Progress Lab
Electric Company Theatre acknowledge the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people. As artists who live, work and create on these lands, Electric Company strives to be allies with, to learn from and to acknowledge the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
--- SERIES CREDITS for CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SMALL TALK ---
Created by SUNNY DRAKE
Produced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRE
Lead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUV
Concept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONG
Impact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY
Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN
Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN
Series funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council
See our website for full credits - it truly does take a village to raise a podcast.
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Though Win and his Grams are growing weary of life in a temporary camp, they never tire of each others' jokes. In a world of floods and fires, they are family, and Win will get his Grams to her lucky spot at bingo through hell and highwater.
Ride Or Die was written by Tara Beagan. Find the transcript here.
Climate Change and Other Small Talk is a worldwide tour for your ears - minus the carbon footprint and lost luggage. Audio dramas from 9 creative teams around the globe will entertain as well as explore our climate crisis. And maybe even what could get us out.
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Written by TARA BEAGAN
Directed by PATRICK BEAGAN
Starring:
DUSTIN FRANK as Win
TRACEY NEPINAK as Mums
MICHELLE THRUSH as Michelle
Sound design and music composition by MADDIE BAUTISTA
Episode Produced by DOWNSTAGE THEATRE with support from SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS
Recording engineer and Dialogue Editor BRIAN BERGUM
Artistic Director for Downstage CLARE PREUSS
Managing Director for Downstage and Episode Producer DANIELLE WHYTE
Associate Producer for Downstage BIANCA MIRANDA
Community Programs Director for Downstage ELSHA YEYESUSWORK
Production Manager and Technical Director for Downstage ADAM KOSTIUK
Special thanks to Lacey Hill for the use of her song “Love Wins,” and to Downstage’s funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and the Rozsa Foundation.
In the spirit of reconciliation, the Downstage team acknowledges that they live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Piikani and Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina, and the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations including the Bearspaw, Chiniki and Wesley Nations. This is also home to the Métis Nation (Region number 3), and all people who make their homes in Moh’kinsstis and the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
--- SERIES CREDITS for CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SMALL TALK ---
Created by SUNNY DRAKE
Produced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRE
Lead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUV
Concept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONG
Impact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY
Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN
Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN
Series funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council
See our website for full credits - it truly does take a village to raise a podcast.
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