Instant Artifacts of a Disconnected Time (and Lots of Hugh Dancy)
During the pandemic, writers and actors have taken on an “adrenalizing” challenge: creating video monologues, more than 400 so far, in 24 hours.
Clockwise from top left: Hugh Dancy in viral monologues by Chrisopher Oscar Peña (on March 17); Donald Margulies (March 31); Alex Edelman (July 21); and Mario Correa (Dec. 15).Credit.via Viral Monologues
March 16, 2021
The 24 Hour Plays move fast. That’s been their nature since their first production in 1995: short plays written, rehearsed and performed onstage in a scant 24-hour span. And when the pandemic shuttered theaters, the 24 Hour Plays responded with astonishing alacrity.
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In the Lifetime movie
Deadly Radio Romance), radio producer Hailey encourages her colleague, radio talk show host Shannon Baker (
Skye Coyne) to forget about her ex-boyfriend Gavin (
Iyan Evans) who’s back in town and to date other guys. Hailey’s care and concern for Shannon and her love life isn’t exactly altruistic: she wants Gavin all to herself and will do anything to make it a reality.
Hailey is portrayed by
Code Black with Marcia Gay Harden and Rob Lowe (Heather Pinkney) and the crime drama
Murder in the First (Suzy Q).
Amy Poehler’s fiery feminist ‘Moxie’ brings simmering problems to boil
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Starting a feminist movement at your high school is one hell of a thing to put on a college application. In “Moxie,” directed by Amy Poehler and based on the novel by Jennifer Mathieu, a determined young woman, Vivan Carter (Hadley Robinson), spearheads a movement to expose and dismantle the patriarchal culture at her high school. No longer accepting the ubiquitous sexism at Rockport High, the girls in “Moxie,” portrayed by a talented group of young women, are a force to be reckoned with.
A still from ‘Moxie’
Based on Jennifer Mathieu’s eponymous novel, the movie on Netflix does not go for broke, but has its heart in the right place
Vivian (Hadley Robinson) and her best friend Claudia (Lauren Tsai) are back at Rockport High in Oregon for the new term. Everything seems to be the same the obnoxious rankings, where all the girls in school are graded according to their physical attributes, are out and the incredibly popular captain of the football team Mitchell Wilson (Patrick Schwarzenegger) is being his casually-annoying self. Everything is same that is until new girl Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña) asks Vivian, “You know that annoying can be more than just annoying right?”
Netflix welcomed another movie on its catalog with the arrival of Moxie.
On March 3, Moxie premiered on the streaming giant and began telling the story of a teenager who calls out sexism at her school.
The series has been smooth-sailing so far, thanks to the ensemble of cast members list which include Hadley Robinson (Vivian), Josephine Langford (Emma Cunningham), Lauren Tsai (Claudia), Patrick Schwarzenegger (Mitchell Wilson), Amy Poehler (Lisa Carter), Ike Barinholtz (Mr. Davies), Marcia Gay Harden (Principal Marlene Shelly), and Clark Gregg (John).
Meanwhile, the official synopsis on the streaming site s YouTube channel says, Fed up with the sexist and toxic status quo at her high school, a shy 16-year-old finds inspiration from her mother s rebellious past and anonymously publishes a zine that sparks a school-wide, coming-of-rage revolution.