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November 15, 2024 62 mins

Ashley can’t wait to leave home — and her overbearing mom, Carolina. She and her best friend, Britney, plot a hot Australian summer trip.

Note: this podcast includes explicit language and references to suicide and trauma.

This four-part series is an audio adaptation of the play Static: A Party Girl’s Memoir. Each episode starts with part of the play, performed by Ashley King as herself and Jaime Cesar as Carolina. Then, in the second half, learn more about this true story as Ashley talks to those who inspired the script.

Guest interview: Bruce Horak, actor, playwright, and visual artist, and Chief Engineer Hemmer on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Static is produced by Ashley King and Meg Wilcox, with support from Inside Out Theatre, Chromatic Theatre, and the Community Podcast Initiative at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada.

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Show notes:

(00:00) Audio drama: Static, part one

(22:36) Ashley King and Meg Wilcox introduce the podcast

(27:58) Ashley interviews Bruce Horak

(56:40) Reflections and episode wrap-up

Click here for a complete episode transcript.

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Music licensed under SOCAN 22C license.

Royalty-free music: 

Anthem of Rain, Rock This House (Instrumental)

Maarten Schellekens, Salt Lake Swerve

Royalty-free sound effects from Pixabay

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Credits:

Static: A Party Girl’s Memoir

Written by: Ashley King

Ashley King: herself, Britney

Jaime Cesar: Carolina

Additional voices: Jim Delaney, Meg Wilcox

Podcast sound design, editing & production: Meg Wilcox

Podcast voice coach: Michelle Brandenberg

Dramaturg: Kodie Rollan

Cultural dramaturg: Daniela Atiencia

Disability dramaturg: Jess Watkin

Director, stage version: Javier Vialta

Sound designer, stage version: Miranda Martini

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