Building the Bubble - Backstage

Digging through the MPAACT digital archives, Shepsu Aakhu came across an informal interview conducted during the earliest days of a pandemic experiment that would later become podcast plays. Captured here are the very earliest challenges faced by our boutique theater company, struggling to find purpose during the Covid-19 shut down that shuttered live theater in Chicago indefinitely. This is a frank interview conducted by Abboyé Lawrence looking at the how and why of the founding of the audio multiverse.