Jacobin Radio: Katie Halper; Murray Mednick and Maury Sterling
Suzi and Alan Minsky talk to Katie Halper of WBAI's The Katie Halper Show about the role of independent media and politics in the Trumpian landscape we inhabit. Then Suzi speaks to prolific, award-winning playwright Murray Mednick,
August 13, 2018
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August 13, 2018
Jacobin Radio: Katie Halper; Murray Mednick and Maury Sterling
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Summary
Suzi and Alan Minsky talk to <a href="http://www.katiehalper.com/" rel="nofollow">Katie Halper</a> of WBAI's <a href="http://thekatiehalpershow.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">The Katie Halper Show</a> about the role of independent media and politics in the Trumpian landscape we inhabit. Then Suzi speaks to prolific, award-winning playwright <a href="http://paduaplaywrights.org/about/murray-mednick/" rel="nofollow">Murray Mednick</a>, whose enigmatic <a href="https://www.plays411.com/newsite/show/play_info.asp?show_id=4791" rel="nofollow">"Mayakovsky and Stalin"</a> runs until <span><span><span><span>August 19</span></span></span></span> at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. The play examines two lives and two suicides, related but distant, responding to the liberating freedom of revolution in the Soviet Union, but then increasingly strangled and suffocated by the top down brutal dictatorship of Stalin, played by actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Sterling" rel="nofollow">Maury Sterling</a> (best known as Max on Homeland), who joins the conversation. The play traces the parallel stories of the giant of Russian poetry, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Mayakovsky" rel="nofollow">Vladimir Mayakovsky</a>, and his relationship to his love and muse, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3670628/Lilya-Brik-a-very-Soviet-siren.html" rel="nofollow">Lilya Brik</a> (darling of Russia’s avant garde) and her husband, the literary critic <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3670628/Lilya-Brik-a-very-Soviet-siren.html" rel="nofollow">Osip Brik</a>. Their relationship exemplifies the freedom from conventional mores in the early years of the revolution. The second life and suicide is that of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Alliluyeva" rel="nofollow">Nadezhda Alliluyeva</a>, Stalin's young wife who committed suicide during a state dinner in 1932, renouncing her husband and his horrific policies, reflecting her despair and suffocation being married to the supreme dictator while millions perished.
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