Episode 17: Bros Before Prose
Kyle and Abby talk Shakespeare's deepest platonic same-gender relationships that appear amidst his most passionate love stories. They also play a game...
Pith and Moment: A Podcast for All Things Shakespeare
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Kyle Downing (nyshakesguy) and various guests and co-hosts breakdown Shakespeare's plays, talk poetic elements, examine ridiculous hypotheticals and answer listener questions on this podcast.
Episode 16: The Fantasy Shakespeare Draft
Kyle and Abby host the world's first Fantasy Shakespeare draft, in which they and four friends take turns picking the Shakespeare plays they think wil...
Episode 15: Pirates and Robots
On the 15th episode of Pith and Moment, Abby and Kyle talk Deus Ex Machina in Shakespeare, and whether or not the label is useful. They also find out ...
Episode 14: If You Kill a King, You Die
Kyle Downing and Abby Wilde talk about the theme of fate in Richard III, Macbeth and Julius Caesar, and whether there are any similarities with the pr...
Episode 13: The Heroine-Ingenue Spectrum
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Abby Wilde joins Kyle Downing on the podcast to talk about Shakespeare's heroines, and what...
Episode 12: Play On... Give Me Excess Of It?
Kyle and Mike host special guest Martine Kei Green-Rogers, a dramaturg working on Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project. Martine divulges som...
Episode 11: Midsummer on Drugs?
On the 11th episode, Kyle Downing and his graduate school classmate Mike Thatcher talk about A Midsummer Night's Dream and all its episodic elements. ...
Episode 10: Solving Two Gents
On the tenth episode of Pith and Moment, Rebekah Scallet joins Kyle Downing to talk about the issues with the final scene of The Two Gentlemen of Vero...
Episode 9: Reimagining Othello
On episode 9, Titan Theatre Co. Artistic Director Lenny Banovez joins Kyle Downing to talk about his recent all-female production of Othello. They als...
Episode 8: Much Ado About Much Ado
On the eighth episode of Pith and Moment, Amelia Fischer joins Kyle Downing to talk about her production of Much Ado About Nothing set in 1840s Texas....