{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6086d520cfb9e813fa7a63a9/6519e8c7936e0700115aadf8?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"And this is how we get here - Keith Barker's This is How We Got Here","description":"<p>Linda speaks with Métis playwright, actor, and director, <a href=\"https://www.nativeearth.ca/artists/kbarker/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Barker</a> about his play, <a href=\"https://www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/T/This-Is-How-We-Got-Here\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>This is How We Got Here </em>(Playwrights Canada Press)</a> It is a moving interview, as Barker explains the origins and shape of this play.</p><p><br></p><p>Their discussions touch on the following subjects (among others!):</p><ul><li>current and past productions of the play (3.00; 28.15; 34.10, 36.00)</li><li>loss and trauma (1.14, 1.50, 4.30, 6.10, 12.56, 19.20, 33.58)</li><li>structure of <em>This is How We Got Here</em> (1.20, 22.28, 23.25)</li><li>representations of grief (3.50, 25.08)</li><li>structure and shape of the play (5.48, 9.05)</li><li>fox figure (10.04, 17.01, 18.58, 20.45, 25.10, 33.00, 36.00)</li><li>play’s epigraph (from <em>Jonathan Livingston Seagull, </em>10.30, 13.16, 15.40)</li><li>discussion of suicide (11.51, 21.40)</li><li>figures from nature (17.58)</li><li>Catholicism (20.45)</li><li>meaning of the title of the play (37.50)</li></ul><p>Linda also invites Barker to read from his play, which he does, selecting the first scene related to the fox figure (25.25).</p><p><br></p><p>With a special thanks to James Healey, the podcasting studio manager - and Barker's cats, who also made an appearance in this interview!</p>","author_name":"Linda Morra"}