The World On Stage Productions: Real Struggles of Real People Podcast

THE BAKER OF KOS presented by The World on Stage Productions

Be sure to listen to our new podcast THE BAKER OF KOS presented by The World on Stage Productions.  We shouldn't forget the baker of a tiny Greek island who in 2015 made and gave thousands of loaves of bread to arriving refugees from Syria during that crisis year.  Although Dionysis Arvanitakis won numerous national and international humanitarian awards for his actions, his love for his neighbor must be remembered and mirrored in our own lives.

A Dream Come True

What do many teenage girls in Afghanistan want? How about an education so often denied them? How about scoring high in the Afghanistan National University Entrance Exam? Elly Berke is
SHAMSEA and Nancy Peavy is FATIMA, SHAMSEA'S mother, in The World on Stage Productions presentation of A DREAM COME TRUE. How does the exam turn out for a teenage girl in Afghanistan after a harrowing experience?

SOJOURNER TRUTH 1852: THE TALE OF THE BOLL WEEVIL and MAHALIA JACKSON: MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE

What can we learn about the Black experience in America from two great Black American women? The World on Stage Productions, Delvyn C. Case, Jr., Playwright and Director, and David Cousins, Producer, presents the following podcast of two monologues in our series Real Struggles of Real People. SOJOURNER TRUTH 1852: THE TALE OF THE BOLL WEEVIL dramatizes the speech of Sojourner Truth before an Ohio town meeting in 1852 when she was invited to debate the Fugitive Slave Act that was having a chilling effect on former slaves who had sought freedom and refuge in the North. MAHALIA JACKSON: MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE dramatizes a meeting  she had with her record producer in 1955 when she was offered a lucrative contract to sing secular music rather than gospel music. Both monologues feature Sheilah Barksdale. After you listen to this podcast, check out
other podcasts of The World on Stage Productions as well as Delvyn's website www.delvyncasejr.com and Facebook page Facebook.com/delvyncasejr. for more plays available to you.

Letters To God - Where Do They Go?

Letters to Santa Claus go to the North Pole. Where do letters to God go? By international agreement, there is a place where such letters are mailed. In this episode of The World On Stage Productions: Real Struggles of Real People, we find out where these letters go, and how they affect the people who deal with them. "Letters to God - Where Do They Go?" starts Larry Maltin, Miriam Feinstein and Calvin Gladen.

John Hus: One Hundred Years Before The Swan

Consider that you find corruption and gross malfeasance in your place of employment. You begin writing and speaking about these issues, and garner a large group of supporters. When those in charge learn of your writings and speaking, they summon you do a conference to explain your views, threatening you with arrest and even worse.

This happened to a young priest John Hus in the year 1415 when he was summoned to a church council in Konstanz, Germany.

Though this play occurs in a very localized situation, doesn't it have application to many other situations around the world in many other times? Perhaps it's happened to you, how would you respond?

Catwalk in Kabal

CATWALK IN KABUL:  A play of two different women who meet at the show and their lives and reactions to what they are seeing.  It's a play in Afghanistan, but the issues and values are universal.

Don't Underestimate The Power of a Bike

WHAT CAN A BICYCLE DO FOR A YOUNG CHILD? CHANGE A LIFE?  This is what happened in the 10-minute play DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A BIKE.  It's the true story of a Kurdish girl who received a bicycle as a thoughtful present by a worker at a refugee camp.  At age 5 it was the first time this little girl had been made to feel important....and loved.   25 years later she sets out on a search to find this kindly man. The play shows the power of little gifts and how long the effects can last!