New Podcast Some Kinda Woman, Stories of Us
features dramatic & comedic work
of international playwright/ performer
Caitlin Hicks
Stories provide rich connection with a simple, intimate
(radio-like)technology
during COVID-19
A new series of episodes and stories called Some Kinda Woman: Stories of Us, in the form of a podcast, has debuted on iTunes, LibSyn, Stitcher, IHeart Radio and other podcast hosts, for international audiences. The podcast features B.C. playwright/performer Caitlin Hicks, and the many quirky characters from her standing ovation tours of one-person theatrical performances in England, Ireland, the United States, Canada and Sweden.
The series features a variety of characters from Hicks’ original theatrical work: Mother Love, Next of Kin, Stories for a Winter Solstice, The Life We Lived, Singing the Bones, Six Palm Trees and Just a Little Fever. Each story is a character-based short tale of a moment in a life and celebrates unique challenges and triumphs that women experience, from their own point of view.
Many stories are based on true stories, others are fictional. The series The Life We Lived, for example, features stories inspired by real-told accounts of the lives of women living on the Sunshine Coast from the thirties to the seventies. Hicks identifies each story and credits each teller. Stories already uploaded from this series include: Read Island Santa (included in the Introduction to the series), Rachel is Born, Gladys and the Pig Man, Women of Essondale, Those Darn Chickens, The Hospital for Injured Snakes, Louella Who Survived Her Times, Your Predecessor Had a Nervous Breakdown!, Everything is In Motion and A Knock on the Door. Other stories such as Stormy Night on Seymour Narrows was inspired by life in an earlier time on the coast – but is fiction.
Through this podcast, Some Kinda Woman: Stories of Us, as Hicks embodies different characters, she celebrates women and gives them a voice.
The podcast is new, but the work has toured internationally in towns and cities to robust audiences, excellent reviews and standing ovations. The work is sharp, humorous and emotional, the characters outspoken, the issues and events in women’s lives from lighthearted Christmas nostalgia to the exhilaration of a powerful birth, to difficult memories of losing a child to divorce, to unexpected death, spousal violence to abortion. Some stories of old timers tell of physical, emotional and financial hardship as settlers of a harsh land (The Life We Lived). Other stories are spoken through hilarious characters who speak their mind (Six Palm Trees, Gertie!).
FOR BACKSTORY, photos, illustration and discussion of each podcast, go to: https://caitlinhicks.com/wordpress/podcast/
Or, go directly to the Podcast page and begin with the Introduction to the series: https://caitlinhicks.com/wordpress/podcasts-some-kinda-woman/
Or, subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/some-kind-of-woman/id1490499019 where you’ll find the podcast & show notes
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