Made Glorious

Author Lindsay Eagar
Narrator Morgan Dalla Betta
Publisher Dreamscape Media
Publish Date 2 April 2024
Run Time 10 hours and 16 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues.

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Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare’s Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she’ll go to to secure the leading role in Bosworth Academy’s senior musical, confessing without shame that she is charming and conniving and brutally ambitious, that we will watch and root for her even as she manipulates and endangers those around her. And we do. Perhaps it’s because we don’t want to believe that she’s as relentless as she claims. Rory is an underdog, after all, a scholarship kid teased for her weight. Surely there will be redemption? Surely our dread and patience will be rewarded? Intricately plotted with an ingenious narrative that blends multiple viewpoints with script excerpts and an original musical score, Lindsay Eagar’s whip-smart, precision-crafted, and gleefully compulsive page-turner taps into the dark side of high-school theater production. A diabolically good listen, it forces our complicity as we wince and cheer for an arresting drama queen who just can’t help going full-tilt nasty in the pursuit of her dream.

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A misunderstood thespian stops at nothing to obtain a lead role in this modern retelling of Shakespeareu2019s Richard III. u2026 Through a narrative format that shifts between the first and third person, moves forward and backward in time, and incorporates prose, play scripts, and even a musical score, Roryu2019s numerous misdeeds are revealedu2026 Reimagining Richard III as a toxic theater kid rather than a crown-hungry noble is thought provokingu2026 Sensationally tragic.

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