Publisher Description
A zoologist in Australia gets funding to save an endangered species from the very company that threatens its existence. Will this deal with the devil allow her to save the species, or will it destroy her entire life’s work?
Includes an interview with playwright Hannie Rayson and director Martin Jarvis. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in September 2020.
Extinction is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Seriesis provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.
Directed by Martin Jarvis, Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg, Seamus Dever as Harry Jewell, Sarah Drew as Dr. Piper Ross, Darren Richardson as Andy Dixon, Joanne Whalley as Professor Heather Dixon-Brown, Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson, Recording Engineer, Editor, Sound Designer: Neil Wogensen, Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin, Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner. Mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.
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“With bright-sounding innocence, Sarah Drew portrays an American zoologist working in Australia who makes the discovery of a lifetime when she finds that the endangered carnivorous marsupial the tiger quoll may still exist in the wild. However, to save the species she may have to make a deal with the devil—a timber baron, portrayed by American actor Seamus Dever, who sports a fine Australian accent. The dialogue is quick and intimate, and the drama down-to-earth as science wrestles with industry, and the characters realize that battling climate change and saving the environment may end up being just as messy and personal as any other human endeavor. This is another engaging production of the best in contemporary theater from LA Theatre Works. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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About the Narrators
Sarah Drew is
an American actress who has appeared on a number of television shows, including
Grey’s Anatomy, Everwood, Castle, Supernatural, Mad Men, Law & Order: SVU,
and Glee. She also works as a voice
actor.
Dennis Boutsikaris is a two-time OBIE award winner. He has received five Audie Awards and seven Golden Earphone Awards for his work in over 100 audiobooks and was voted one of the Best Voices of the Year by AudioFile magazine. He has appeared in numerous Broadway, television, and film roles. He played Mozart on Broadway in Amadeus and has appeared on television shows including Shameless, The Good Wife, House M.D., Grey’s Anatomy, ER, and Law & Order.
Seamus Dever is an award-winning
actor and star of ABC’s Castle as Homicide
Detective Kevin Ryan. His other television roles include Army Wives, General
Hospital, and Mad Men, and his
film credits include Hollywoodland. He
is well known to theater audiences for his acclaimed role of Alex in A Clockwork Orange. He is a graduate of
Carnegie-Mellon University and the Moscow Art Theatre. He and his wife Juliana
reside in Los Angeles with their two rescue dogs and are proud vegetarians active
in animal rights and environmental causes.
Miriam Margolyes received the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for The Age of Innocence. She was the voice of Fly the dog in Babe and appeared in Ladies in Lavender with Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. In 2002 she played the role of Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.