Magdalena "Footlights" Rojas-Park

— How a Bunch of Fussy Thespians Became Imperial China’s Most Terrifying Spooks —

🎙 On the Phonograph

— How a Lost Shipment of English Neckwear Nearly Decapitated the Ottoman Empire —

— How One Stickler for Rice Paper Purity Unleashed a Theatrical Monster —

— How a troupe of broke Italian actors and one very lewd puppet accidentally kick-started the English Civil War. —

— When the Nigerian Civil War Got a Cast of 700 Angry Ghosts —

🎙 On the Phonograph

— How a Cursed Piece of Wood and Theatrical Levels of Horniness Brought Down Brazil’s Generals —

— How a Bunch of Balinese Puppeteers and Their Little Shadow Friends Gaslit an Entire Planet and Turned Colonialism into a Badly-Reviewed Farce. —

— How an exiled Japanese maskmaker and a bottle of bathtub gin gave the Harlem Renaissance its most glorious trainwreck. —

— How a Chance Gulag Encounter Gave Soviet Theatre a Glorious, Grinding Hard-On —

— How One Noh Troupe Upstaged the Shogunate With Weaponized Eyebrow-Waggling —