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    The Jungle
    The Jungle
    The Jungle
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    The Jungle

    Written by Upton Sinclair

    Narrated by David Catlin, Thomas Cox, Andrew White and

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    David Schwimmer and Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company created this innovative and heart-wrenching adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s powerhouse novel, in a co-production with
    L.A. Theatre Works.

    A young Lithuanian immigrant, full of hope, arrives in Chicago in 1904 to work in the stockyards. He and his family soon find themselves processed like the very cattle they slaughter, by the system they dreamed would save them.

    Recorded at the Guest Quarters Suites, Chicago in April 1992.

    Director: David Schwimmer
    Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
    Starring an Ensemble Cast Playing Over 50 Roles:
    David Catlin,Thomas Cox, Larry Distasi, Christine Dunford, Laura Eason, Joy Gregory, Tom Hodges,
    David Kersnar, Phil Smith, Heidi Stillman, Andrew White, Temple Williams

    Radio Producer: Robert Neuhaus. Recording Engineer: Larry Rock. Production Stage Manager: Jan Watson.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Theatre Works
    Release dateAug 15, 2020
    ISBN9781682661383
    Author

    Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. To research The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago’s meatpacking plants. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state’s ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including Oil! (1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood; Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case; The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism, and the eleven novels in Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd series.

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      I remember reading this book in highschool, and I retained the essence of what it was about up till now. I don't exactly remember the plot, but this did stay true to Sinclair's message. The acting I thought was decent, but there was just something about the directing that I didn't care for. Anyway, it was enjoyable but I think there was room for improvement. 3/5