{"product_id":"book-dsbl","title":"Behind the Sheet","description":"An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840's Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the experiments proceed, and he gets close to a solution, the women try to survive and even find dignity in the face of inhuman treatment.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Includes conversations with playwright Charly Evon Simpson and Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in August 2019.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Behind the Sheet is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Directed by Rosalind Ayres, Inger Tudor\u003cbr\u003e Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg\u003cbr\u003e Monica McSwain as Mary\u003cbr\u003e Matthew Floyd Miller as Samuel and Edward\u003cbr\u003e Dominique Morisseau as Dinah\u003cbr\u003e Larry Powell as Lewis and Benjamin\u003cbr\u003e Devon Sorvari as Josephine\u003cbr\u003e Jasmine St. Clair as Betty\u003cbr\u003e Josh Stamberg as George\u003cbr\u003e Danielle Moné Truitt as Sally\u003cbr\u003e Karen Malina White as Philomena\u003cbr\u003e Narrated by Inger Tudor\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Sound Designer and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist, Jeff Gardner. Recording Engineer and Editor: Neil Wogensen.","brand":"L.A. Theatre Works","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49376800309552,"sku":"BDdsbl","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/285753-dsbl-Square.jpg?v=1734893828","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dsbl","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}