“I also thought that this is probably the best format for this kind of show.” “I’d seen a couple of online performances before and I thought it was really neat, the way people are still able to put on shows despite everything that has been going on,” Maguire said. Download the Vurbl app and listen, snip or save Chapter 0 | 179 - Magrady Graham on the fly.The SJU Theatre Company is presenting a completely virtual production of “Spoon River Anthology,” that is available for free on demand on the SJU Theatre Company website through Kaltura, a video streaming platform, from April 24 to May 17, according to Laura Pattillo, Ph.D., assistant professor of English and director of the production.īrenna Maguire ’22, who is one of the seven cast members of the production, was excited when she learned that there was going to be a virtual production. When you make a playlist, you can include your favorite chapters or snippets so you can share or listen to them any time. Make snippets of your favorite quotes and moments from Chapter 0 | 179 - Magrady Graham and organize them with all your favorite classic book quotes in a playlist. Listen to Chapter 0 | 179 - Magrady Graham. (Summary from Wikipedia)įor more information or to volunteer, please visit. a bright and successful man crediting his parents for all he’s accomplished, and an old woman weeping because he is secretly her illegitimate child - forms a gripping, if not pretty, whole.

The interplay of various villagers - e.g. Speaking without reason to lie or fear of the consequences, they construct a picture of life in their town that’s shorn of all facades.

Some recite their histories and turning points, others make observations of life from the outside, and petty ones complain of the treatment of their graves, while few tell how they really died. They speak about the sorts of things one might expect. The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four soliloquies.Įach poem is an epitaph of a dead citizen, delivered by the dead themselves. Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of unusual, short, free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters’ hometown. LibriVox public domain recording of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology.

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