The Joyce Carol Oates Collection Audiobook (Free)

Eight highly diverse works from one of America’s most prolific and flexible authors, this collection includes a special dramatization of Oates’ bestselling novel American Appetites, two comedic plays The Perfectionist and THE REALITY Teller, four brief stories Gulf Battle, Black, The Key and Shade Clusters, as well simply because her libretto for Black Water: An American Opera, composed by John Duffy.

American Appetites:

The façade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and about The Joyce Carol Oates Collection scandal with this exclusive dramatization of Joyce Carol Oates’ best-selling novel.

Solid: Lisa Akey, Keith Carradine, Alastair Duncan, Paul Eiding, Anna Gunn, Dan Lauria, Jean Louisa Kelly, Frank Muller, B.J. Ward, Elizabeth Ward Land Liza Weil and Tegan Western.

The Truth Teller:

Joyce Carol Oates’ amusing take-off on the traditional Southern play starts when liberated Hedda arrives house to visit the family property, ruled with the family’s tyrannical patriarch, “Tiny” Culligan.

Cast: Charles Durning, Arthur Hanket, Gary Kroeger, Marsha Mason, Priscilla Pointer, William Schallert and JoBeth Williams.

The Perfectionist:

Joyce Carol Oates turns her satiric eyes to Tobias Harte, a man enthusiastic about perfection in everything from ethics to egg salad. Rollicking comedy ensues as Harte challenges with his highly imperfect relatives and buddies.

Ensemble: Barbara Bosson, Annabeth Gish, Harold Gould, Valerie Landsburg, David Schwimmer and David Selby.

Dark (one-act play):

In this evening of cocktails and dinner, a few anxiously awaits the arrival of the ex-husband. As your wine glasses are drained, the night time turns into dark and intense, exposing the true shades of the personas within this eerie like triangle.

Cast: Stephanie Dunnam, Rif Hutton and Joe Spano.

Gulf War (one-act play):

An affluent young couple, entertains an older few for an evening of cocktails and politics through the Gulf War. But as the evening proceeds, the conversation have a bizarre and absurd tone.

Cast: Edward Asner, Stephanie Dunnam, Nan Martin and Joe Spano.

The Key (one-act play):

A hilarious perverse encounter between Melissa, a travelling suburban housewife, recently separated from her husband, and Edwin, a prosperous businessman.

Ensemble: Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, Don Reed, Joyce Vehicle Patten and JoBeth Williams.

Tone Clusters (one-act play):

A chilling tragic-comedy that uses the form of the interview between a middle-aged, middle-class American few and the mass media.

Ensemble: Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, Don Reed, Joyce Vehicle Patten and JoBeth Williams.

Black Water – An American Opera:

A tragic and beautiful opera based on the Chappaquiddick scandal. Libretto by Joyce Carol Oates, with music by John Duffy.

Cast: David Lee Brewer, Reid Bruton, Stephanie Buckley, Karen Burlingame, Kimberly Graham, Linda Kerns, Erin Langston, Patrick Mason, John Savarese and Rob Shacklett.