Greetings and welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly: The Short Story Podcast where great authors and actors meet! My name is Alyssa Monteiro, WORDTheatre’s audio editing intern, and I’ll be introducing this week’s episode.

Our upcoming show, The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe debuts on August 3rd at The Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, England. To celebrate the debut of our newest production, we’re bringing you the best ocean-related stories from WORDTheatre’s past events.

This week’s story, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, was first performed at last year’s event From the Sea: Stories, Poems & Music. This story was written by Gabriel García Márquez and performed by Harriet Walter, who has appeared in the acclaimed series Succession and Silo.

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Here now, is “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World.”

WALTER PERFORMS.

Again, you have just heard “The Handsomest Drowned man in the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, performed by Harriet Walter.

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WORDTheatre’s original production, The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe, will debut at the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, England on August 3rd. The performance will feature poems, play excerpts, music, and original writing to encapsulate the majesty of the ocean. Created with support from Ocean Rising, this event aims to encourage us all to become ambassadors for the ocean.

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On behalf of Kirsty Peart and Cedering Fox, thank you to the LA Department of Arts & Culture, and Jane Oster Sinisi and Phiphen Studios for their ongoing support, executive coordinator Scout Riley, and our script writer Alex Kauffman. Thank you for listening. This is Alyssa, signing off!