Word for Word is pleased to be back on KALW’s OPEN AIR program
with content from WORD for WORDcast (their new podcast!)
THE MACHINE STOPS
by E.M. Forster
Pt. 1, Thursday, January 7 at 1pm
Pt. 2, Thursday, January 14 at 1pm
Pt. 3, Thursday, January 21 at 1pm
Directed by Gendell Hing-Hernández
with
Carla Gallardo
Susan Harloe*
David Everett Moore*
Brian Rivera* **
Ryan Tasker*
Sound Design and Original Music by David R. Molina
Sound Engineer - Joe Moore
Production Manager - Colm McNally
Stage Manager - Tyler Miller
Dramaturgy - Delia MacDougall
Marketing and Distribution - Andrew Burmester
Podcast volunteer - Carly Dreame Brethe
Written in 1909, this is a dystopian look at the future, where everyone lives underground, is controlled by “The Machine,” and communicates with each other over vast distances through glowing blue plates.
“By her side, on the little reading-desk, was a survival from the ages of litter — one book. This was the Book of the Machine. In it were instructions against every possible contingency. If she was hot or cold or dyspeptic or at a loss for a word, she went to the book, and it told her which button to press.” —The Machine Stops
*Member AEA
**Member SAG/AFTRA
