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Tooth and Claw
Written by Michael Hollinger
Narrated by Jaime Alvarez, Stephanie Beatriz, Daniel Chacón and
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
In an emotional ecosystem as complex as that of our planet, is life nothing more than survival of the fittest? Michael Hollinger based his probing work on the real-life giant tortoise named ‘Lonesome George’, and the efforts to preserve his species that threatened the livelihood of the native fishermen on the Galàpagos Islands.
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
Includes interviews with playwright Michael Hollinger and Carol Ann Bassett, the author of Galápagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin’s Cradle of Evolution.
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in July of 2012.
Tooth and Claw is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
- Jaime Alvarez as Pedro/Chico
- Stephanie Beatriz as Ana Ortega
- Daniel Chacón as Park Official/Tour Guide/Alberto
- Richard Gallegos as Tito/Bernardo
- Daniel Guzman as Gonzalo Reyes
- Justin Huen as Jorge/Manuel
- Jay Montalvo as Miguel Mendoza
- W. Morgan Sheppard as Malcolm Geary
- Jos Viramontes as Carlos Zavala
- Cynthia Watros as Schuyler Baines
Includes interviews with playwright Michael Hollinger and Carol Ann Bassett, the author of Galápagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin’s Cradle of Evolution.
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in July of 2012.
Tooth and Claw is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A scientist takes a new job at a research station in the Galapagos to save turtles. She faces poachers, a Congressman, and her personal secretary who are against her. Exposes the difficulty that arises when people try to save species and step on the toes of those who are making money harvesting species. Also a good look at the short-term thinking that often occurs in such a situation. A couple of problems hit me: it is unlikely in the modern world that someone would be hired to such a position in a Spanish speaking country if they could speak so little Spanish they didn't understand Donde. Also, if she had actually spent many weeks at a time with her mother in that area when she was five, she almost certainly would speak at least a little Spanish. The author may have perceived this as necessary for the plot, but it actually isn't; there are other ways to get the outcome he desires. The best part of the work? A speech by the old man that lays it on the line about why conservation is important. Worth reading, but don't expect it to cheer you up. All it will do is remind you why we are losing the battle to conserve what's left.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A scientist takes a new job at a research station in the Galapagos to save turtles. She faces poachers, a Congressman, and her personal secretary who are against her. Exposes the difficulty that arises when people try to save species and step on the toes of those who are making money harvesting species. Also a good look at the short-term thinking that often occurs in such a situation. A couple of problems hit me: it is unlikely in the modern world that someone would be hired to such a position in a Spanish speaking country if they could speak so little Spanish they didn't understand Donde. Also, if she had actually spent many weeks at a time with her mother in that area when she was five, she almost certainly would speak at least a little Spanish. The author may have perceived this as necessary for the plot, but it actually isn't; there are other ways to get the outcome he desires. The best part of the work? A speech by the old man that lays it on the line about why conservation is important. Worth reading, but don't expect it to cheer you up. All it will do is remind you why we are losing the battle to conserve what's left.