About Pang!
Dan Froot and Company create live and recorded theatrical experiences that foster cross-class dialogue around urgent social issues. Pang! uses audio theater (or audio drama), a contemporary form of what used to be called radio plays, to ask, “What does hunger sound like in America?”. We want to understand, from street-level, forces that come between the world’s abundance and so many of our neighbors.
We conducted book-length oral histories of families living below the poverty line in Los Angeles, Cedar Rapids and Miami. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and edited into book-length documents. One family from each city consulted with us as we interpreted their story in theatrical form. We perform Pang! live on stage in cities around the country. To learn more about our live shows, click here.
Why audio theater? We want our audiences to feel they are “between the ears” of Pang!’s participating families, hearing what they hear. There is urgency in the impulse to tell these stories. We believe they have the power to dispel fear, challenge our values, and inspire compassion.
Pang! was recorded and mastered at Wayland Productions in Orange CA. Recording engineer: Kc Wayland. The music was recorded at i-ear music in Santa Monica CA. Recording engineer and editor: Ross Levinson. Musicians: Robert Een, Dan Froot, Ross Levinson.
photos of original stage production of Pang! by: Rose Eichenbaum, John Pemble, Monica McGivern, Hector David Rosales