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Rapture Season

From a Glacier We Watch the World Burn

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Rapture Season

By: Eric Micha Holmes
Narrated by: Lili Taylor, Kerry Warren, Peter Francis James
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A mother-daughter relationship faces a harrowing test in Eric Micha Holmes’s masterfully crafted thriller Rapture Season. When Mia mysteriously disappears from her college campus, her mother Joyce fears the worst — and a warning from Mia’s ex-boyfriend reveals she may have left the country to join a cult. Joyce impulsively launches a cross-continental trip to rescue her, gradually learning more about the seductive cult leader via audio tapes her daughter left behind. Rapture Season is a truly engrossing and hypnotic experience, offering a bracing examination of race, identity, radical ideology, and the resilience of familial bonds.

Directed by Megan Sandberg Zakian.

Playwright Eric Micha Holmes was awarded a commission through the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, an initiative dedicated to developing innovative original plays driven by language and voice. As an Audible commissioned playwright, he received funding and creative support to develop Rapture Season.

Please note this audiobook contains strong language. Listener discretion is advised.

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Eric Micha Holmes
Megan Sandberg-Zakian

About the Playwright

A playwright and radio dramatist whose work has been heard on the BBC (Care Inc.) and seen at The National Black Theatre (Mondo Tragic), The New Black Fest and MCC Theatre (Pornplay; or, Blessèd Are The Meek), New York Theatre Workshop (Nimpsey Pink), and The Lark Play Development Center (Jackets In May) among others. Residencies and fellowships include The Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Space At Ryder Farm, 'I Am Soul' Playwright's Residency at The National Black Theatre, LaGuardia Performing Arts Playwriting Lab, City Theatre Company, and more. MFA: University of Iowa.

About the Director

Megan Sandberg-Zakian is a freelance theater director based in Jamaica Plain, MA, and a co-founder of Maia Directors, a consulting group for artists and organizations engaging with stories from the Middle East and beyond. Her directing projects include the world premieres of Nathan Alan Davis's Nat Turner in Jerusalem at New York Theatre Workshop, Eleanor Burgess' Chill at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and Madhuri Shekar’s House of Joy at California Shakespeare Theater. She has previously served as the Associate Artistic Director of Underground Railway Theater (Cambridge, MA), the Providence Black Repertory Company (RI), and The 52nd Street Project (NYC), and, most recently, as Director-in-Residence at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, MA. Megan is a recipient of the Princess Grace Theater Award and the TCG Future Leaders fellowship, an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a proud member of SDC, the national union for stage directors and choreographers. She is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College.

Lili Taylor
Kerry Warren
Peter Francis James

About the Performer

Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include Three Sisters, The Library, Mourning Becomes Electra, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Landscape of the Body, Dead Eye Boy, Avenue Boys, What Did He See, Farmhouse/Whorehouse. Television credits include The X-Files, Six Feet Under, American Crime and most recently HBO’s Perry Mason. Upcoming in television: Outer Range for Amazon. Film credits: Mystic Pizza, Say Anything, Dogfight, Arizona Dream, Born on the Fourth of July, Household Saints, Shortcuts, Prêt-à-Porter, Cold Fever, The Addiction, I Shot Andy Warhol, Girls Town, Ransom, The Haunting, The Imposters, Julie Johnson, A Slipping-Down Life, Factotum, The Notorious Bettie Page, Public Enemies, Brooklyn’s Finest, The Conjuring, Blood Ties, A Woman Like Me, To The Bone, Paper Spiders, The Evening Hour. Upcoming in film: The Winter House.

About the Performer

Broadway: The River. Off Broadway: Life Sucks (Theatre Row); This Is How It Ends (59E59); Much Ado About Nothing Mobile Unit (The Public). Regional: The Tempest (Pittsburg Public); Romeo and Juliet (Dallas Theater Center); The Tempest (Pittsburgh Public); Office Hour (Berkeley Rep and Long Wharf); The Originalist (Arena Stage); Twelfth Night (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike (Baltimore Center Stage). TV: Broad City, New Amsterdam, and Law & Order SVU. Training: Juilliard.

About the Performer

Peter Francis James has recorded more than 75 books, as well as numerous games (Dr. Steinman in Bioshock). Broadway appearances include Hillary and Clinton, Present Laughter, The Merchant of Venice, On Golden Pond, Drowning Crow, and Judgment at Nuremberg. The Public: Stuff Happens (OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards), Much Ado, Venus, Horatio in Kevin Kline’s Hamlet, Long Day’s Journey... CSC: The Maids (OBIE Award). Signature Theater: The Lady From Dubuque (Lortel Nomination). U.K: The Lady From Dubuque (with Maggie Smith), Cymbeline (RSC /TFANA). Film: The Humbling, Song One, The Losers, The Rebound, The Messenger. TV: Godfather of Harlem, Bull, The Code, Boardwalk Empire, The Mysteries of Laura, Oz, Royal Pains, Gossip Girl, Kings, The Rosa Parks Story, Simple Justice, The Ruby Bridges Story, and all three *Law & Order series. He is a graduate of RADA, and taught Shakespeare at Yale School of Drama from 2000-2020.

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It was just okay for a short story. The narration was good, performed by a full cast.

Short story

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I enjoyed the narration and the theme. I look forward to reading more from this author.

Great short story!

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this is the kind of story audible is all about. I could read the book which is still perfectly fine. the narration is superb and relays the mood exactly. I can imagine myself being Mom in the next Mia.

I could not stop listening

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A short, full cast Audible original, with outstanding audio effects, and performances. That said, the story arc gets more than a bit muddy and loses its way on more than one occasion. The conclusion is also less than clear or satisfying to this listener. All that said, the overall tone and feel of this entertaining short story make it worth the credit, with my caveats, noted.

Not quite sure where to put this one...

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This was my first time listening to a play and I loved it! The mother's rant with which we are all familiar in opposition to the almost dreamlike exchanges in which few words are spoken felt real. Were they just missing each other or in so deep the truth was in their bones? Left me wanting more.

Rich Listening Experience

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