Hear/Now Audio Transcriptions

Below are the audio transcriptions for all released episodes of Keen Company’s Hear/Now Season of Audio Theater. New episodes post every Friday at 7pm EST.

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1993: Episode 1 / Low Romance - Swift

It’s January 1993. We’re in the East Village, NYC. Locations: Boy Bar, 512 East 5th Street, The Sidewalk Cafe. Characters: Byron, Steven, Jean Wayne Genet, Tweaker and finkle. Featured Songs: Title track, 6&7, Jean Wayne Genet. Do you really want to know more than this?

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1993: Episode 2 / The Last Lonely Nights of Loreena - Tremor

It’s February 1993. We’re in Loreena’s apartment in 512 E 5th. Loreena’s apartment, Feb 1993. Loreena lives on the second floor. At the top she is hanging out with Steven and helping him get ready for the Gender Fuck Ball. Then a ritual is disrupted and other things happen.

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1993: Episode 3 / Low Romance - Swipe

Its March 1993 - the spring equinox if that kind of thing matters to you.
Locations: The Wonder Bar, Leshko’s Coffee Shop, and 512 East 5th Street.
Characters: Steven and Jean Wayne Genet. This could be love, this could be trouble, this could be both, better run better run.
Featured song: 4 All Time

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1993: Episode 4 / The Last Lonely Nights of Loreena - Terror

It’s April 23 1993. Location: On the radio and Loreena’s apartment. Loreena has a story to tell, does she tell it?

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1993: Episode 5 / My First Night with Steven

It’s June 1993. finkle spent two nights with Steven in 1993. This is about the first night.
Locations: 512 E 5th Street, The Tunnel, a rooftop on the UES at sunrise.
Characters:  Steven, finkle, Jerry the Night Manager.
Featured songs: Warning Bells (lyrics and melody co-written by Jennifer McKenna), Heart Deep

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1993: Episode 6 / Low Romance - Seize

Eh, it’s maybe July, it may be June? It’s probably July. Locations: 512 E 5th Street. Characters: Steven, Byron, Jean Wayne Genet, finkle. Things escalate.

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1993: Episode 7 / The Last Lonely Nights of Loreena - Tribulation

Loreena is faced with a dilemma. It’s the Fall, time is no longer clear. What is time anyway? Anyway...
Location: 512 E 5th street, Boris’ Pawnshop, the little church on E 7th.
Characters: Loreena, Boris, Judy the Landlord.
Featured Song: Starting to Think I’m Going Crazy

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1993: Episode 8 / Low Romance - Disappear OR My Second Night with Steven

This episode is about the second night finkle spent with Steven and also a lot of other things too. Some loose ends get tied up, some don’t.
Location: 512 East 5th Street
Characters: Steven, finkle
Featured song: U

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Digging in the Dark by Pearl Cleage

Digging in the Dark takes audiences to a moonless night in the woods outside Atlanta, where a woman awaits her scheming brother’s arrival. He thinks he’s coming to claim a valuable family heirloom, but she’s not to be underestimated. Listen in as one family excavates generational wounds to settle an old score before sunrise.

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All We Need Is Us by James Anthony Tyler

It’s Summer 2020, and the pandemic is raging through New York City. Eviction is looming for Lymere and Halen and their first baby is on its way. All We Need Is Us is an intimate look at unprecedented times, and a hopeful reminder that at the end of the day we can at least rely on each other.

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Radio Nowhere by Kate Cortesi

Radio Nowhere is an irreverent comedy about a young artist’s attempt to save his strange little radio show by selling off an even stranger set of valuables. Tune in and join DJ Anonymous as his scrappy telethon turns into an exploration of grief, art, popularity, and the myth of the white male genius.

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Adventurephile by Melissa Li and Kit Yan

Welcome to Adventurephile, the only podcast that takes listeners on unforgettable journeys to unexplored destinations. On this episode, we travel to an uninhabited island off the southern coast of China. This trip is going to be so good, it's scary.

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