Ecology Won: Readings by Will Geer and Ellen Geer

Will Geer and Ellen Geer

In 1978, veteran character actor and social activist Will Geer recorded a selection of literary writings on the theme of ecology. Geer begins his reading with a poem by Robert Frost and texts by Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Woody Guthrie. He continues with selections from Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and several unattributed Elizabethan plays, and provides commentary linking all the pieces together. His daughter Ellen Geer takes the role of the female voices in the readings from Shakespeare and three Elizabethan plays. The liner notes include the text of the 11 literary selections and brief biographies of the two actors.

Track Listing

101	Frost, Robert: The Pasture	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	0:57
102	Whitman, Walt: This Compost	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	3:22
103	Twain, Mark: O Lord Our Father...	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	1:57
104	Letter to Will Geer from Woody Guthrie	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	0:34
105	Whitman, Walt: Respondez	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	2:49
106	Guthrie, Woody: So Long, It's Been Good to Know You	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	0:19
107	Chaucer: Parliament of Foules	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	0:43
108	Shakespeare, William: King Henry V, Act V, Scene II	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	1:59
201	Abraham and Issac (Brome Version)	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	11:20
202	Anon.: Simon and Susan	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	4:20
203	The Nativity and the Slaughter of the Innocents	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	7:09