Maddie and Tim take a look at Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad", a play which both of them are very, very unfamiliar with. With a handful of millennia between today and when the Odyssey was first whispered, they discuss the questions and problems that come up when attempting to weave a new tale from a familiar story. (Speaking of weaving, peep the shitty editing Maddie did this time around - Suitors, eat your heart out.) Auction house for Atwood's copy of Double Persephone: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/double-persephone/author/margaret-atwood/first-edition/ Guardian interview with Atwood and Phyllida Lloyd: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/oct/26/theatre.classics Seanna McKenna on Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAm4QvLhCKY Margaret Atwood at Hay Festival 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgVj8DECrP8 BLACKPINK "STAY [ENGLISH COVER]" by Shimmeringrain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9K305OrPlg

Maddie and Amanda delve into Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" in this inaugural episode. From the playwright's alleged Communist ties to the 2002 production featuring a future Disney princess, it's the Salem Witch Trials like you've never seen it. Maddie's certainly has never read it. (Note: Jed Harris, the director of the 1953 premiere of "The Crucible" was incorrectly identified as 'Jim Harris' in this episode. However, historical accounts also say that he was a bit of a jackass so y'know we're sorry but not that much.) Arthur Miller's NYT Article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/10/21/why-i-wrote-the-crucible Ringer article about Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/3/19/17136620/marilyn-and-miller-star-crossed-misfits Daily Beast article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/him-too-how-arthur-miller-smeared-marilyn-monroe-and-invented-the-myth-of-the-male-witch-hunt Audio clips sampled from: Meech & Lo "Salem Witch Trials" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOPsdaUxsGY&t=95s American Masters PBS "Why Arthur Miller Wrote the Crucible" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGVlDzu-_dg SNL "Crucible Cast Party feat. Lin Manuel Miranda" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkjjtX83-Cc&t=1s Old Vic "Director's Cut: The Crucible" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGx_PGGQF2U Scottish Ballet "The Women of the Crucible" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dznuOvp8wto