#Pantisocracy Season 5 Episode 3 ‘When Things Fall Apart’
Panti Bliss shares her experience of 'When Things Fall Apart" or as she calls it 'Shit Happens' and gives some advice to a good friend who is struggling post lockdown. We can't control what happens, but we can control how we react to what happens.
The Panti Monologues is a short form podcast taken from the spoken word performances by Panti Bliss at the opening of the Pantisocracy shows. In this episode, episode 3 of Season 5, Panti meets three people who found a way of re-inventing or re-discovering themselves and their work during lockdown.
'When Things Fall Apart' - find the full podcast episodes under Pantisocracy in all podcast places. Recorded in Belvedere House, Dublin 1 July 2020.
"What do you do when everything falls apart, and your best laid plans collapse in the eye of a global storm? In this episode of Pantisocracy host Panti Bliss is with three people, photographer Ruth Medjber, novelist Gavin McCrea and singer/songwriter Emma Langford, who each had to answer that question and reinvent their work and world during the pandemic.
For Ruth Medjber, 2020 was meant to be a globe trotting series of music tours, festivals and exhibitions, but forced into lockdown, she began capturing the mood of the nation with her twilight walks and window portraits. Gavin McCrea, was happily working away on a novel, when lockdown brought him back to Dublin to look after his elderly mother, and in the midst of quarantine, Gavin began writing a very personal memoir, capturing that time, and his mother’s dementia. Emma Langford, as her overseas tour and gigs vanished, began video blogging from her bedroom, hosting sing songs and requests and found a new way of creating and connecting. During the show, Emma performs two of her songs, ‘The Winding Way Down to Kells Bay’ and ‘Goodbye Hawaii’ while Gavin shares the opening prologue of his powerful new work.
For more go to pantisocracy.ie/s5e3/
Read the monologue here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14O2GNlxkK2hJ7Cm4nOicuwruuJWxWHD4jcGQzLqolpg/edit?usp=sharing
Watch Panti deliver her monologue: vimeo.com/435820284
Pantisocracy and The Panti Monologues are Athena Media Productions. The radio broadcast of the shows goes on RTE Radio 1 while full length podcast cuts are available via www.pantisocracy.ie
The producer is Helen Shaw, the digital editor is John Howard, the audio recordist and audio editor on this episode is Simon Cullen.
