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An idealistic American diplomat locks horns with a mercurial Soviet negotiator during a series of conversations in the woods outside Geneva. As their mutual friendship and understanding deepens, an awareness that their work may ultimately be pointless casts a shadow over their hopes to achieve a lasting peace. Includes a post-play discussion with playwright Lee Blessing and UCLA Political Science professor Richard Anderson. Lead funding for A Walk in the Woods is generously provided by The John Logan Foundation. Recorded before an audience at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in January 2019. Directed by Cameron Watson Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg Alfred Molina as Andrey Botvinnik Steven Weber as John Honeyman Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Production Manager, Rick V. Moreno. Editor, Julian Nicholson.

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Lee Blessing is an American playwright whose best-known play, A Walk in the Woods, was a Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Winner (Booth Theatre). It was later produced in London's West End and seen on PBS's American Playhouse. Blessing's other plays include A View of the Mountains and Whores (New Jersey Repertory), Great Falls (Profiles Theatre), Lonesome Hollow (Side Project Theatre), A Body of Water, a Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Winner (Guthrie Theater), The Roads That Lead Here, Down the Road, and War of the Roses (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Black Sheep, Thief River, and Eleemosynary (Florida Stage), Chesapeake (2econd Stage), The Winning Streak (Arena Stage), Going to St. Ives (Fountain Theatre), Fortinbras (Defiant Theatre), Cobb (Meadow Brook Theatre), Two Rooms (La Jolla Playhouse), Reagan in Hell (Bleecker Street), and When We Go Upon the Sea (Adrienne Theatre).

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