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Article: Snakes on a Stage
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- June 28, 2008
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SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
06-28-2008
Snakes on a Stage
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 1:00-2:00 PM
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SCOTT SIMON, host:
This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Coming up, a homicide trial is retold in a five-movement ballad. But first, in "Antony and Cleopatra," the queen of Egypt decides to end her life with the bite of an asp. There's an extra bit of drama in the production of Shakespeare's tragedy that's now running at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C. The part of the snake is played by a real snake.
I'm joined in the studio now by Dani Rose, a stagehand who is also the snake wrangler, and the stars of the play, the snakes. We ...
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