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Parabasis

Next Day Theater

Parabasis is a device from ancient Greek comedy referring to when the chorus steps forward to express the views of the dramatist on politics and other matters. The Parabasis podcast series was launched in 2018 by Next Day Theater, a sketch comedy company founded in Washington, DC, in 2015. The series takes on race, religion, the environment and other pressing issues of the day using, to paraphrase Mark Twain, laughter as its chief weapon.

It's winter 2020, and a radio documentary team follows a crew surveying for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that has innovated new technology that promises to be more protective of the environment. But things are not as they seem, and lurking just beyond are forces that want revenge for the destruction of the tundra.Red Ice is an official Gold selection of the 2020 Hear Now Audio Fiction & Arts Festival.

Oct 29, 2019

25 min

Red Ice (Part One)

It's winter 2020, and a radio documentary team follows a crew surveying for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that has innovated new technology that promises to be more protective of the environment. But things are not as they seem, and lurking just beyond are forces that want revenge for the destruction of the tundra. Red Ice is an official Gold selection of the 2020 Hear Now Audio Fiction & Arts Festival.

Oct 23, 2019

32 min

Screwing Around With Shakespeare (Part Three)

Gaslighting. Manspreading. Smashing the patriarchy. One playwright mansplained it all: William Shakespeare.Featuring "Manspread Madness".

Mar 28, 2019

9 min

Screwing Around With Shakespeare (Part Two)

Gaslighting. Manspreading. Smashing the patriarchy. One playwright mansplained it all: William Shakespeare.Featuring "Best Beware My Sting".

Mar 28, 2019

26 min

Screwing Around With Shakespeare (Part One)

Gaslighting. Manspreading. Smashing the patriarchy. One playwright mansplained it all: William Shakespeare.Featuring "2 B or Nah 2 B" and "The Winter of Our Discombobulatment".

Mar 28, 2019

11 min

Twenty Thirty Four (Part Three)

The year is 2034, and America has become a totalitarian state ruled by the crypto-dictator Large Donald. Who will save us?

Oct 15, 2018

17 min

Twenty Thirty Four (Part Two)

The year is 2034, and America has become a totalitarian state ruled by the crypto-dictator Large Donald. Who will save us?

Oct 15, 2018

21 min

Twenty Thirty Four (Part One)

The year is 2034, and America has become a totalitarian state ruled by the crypto-dictator Large Donald. Who will save us?

Oct 15, 2018

30 min