consistently performs as a well-integrated ensemble, with all the actors playing extras in addition to their main roles. Their energetic performances have that rousing quality, which is so essential to the genre." The New York Times (June 11, 2010): "Though “Can You Hear Their Voices?” is often more interesting than exciting, the script holds up surprisingly well. The scrappy Peculiar Works Project, which specializes in bringing theater to alternative sites, has made an intriguing move in reviving the story. And they've picked an intriguing time to tell it." Stage Grade (undated): "...for many critics, this topical urgency isn't enough to excuse what they see as poor casting, acting, design, and direction choices... most find the production a trifle too academic or amateurish." Theater Online (undated): "PWP’s production of Voices in the vacant storefront at 2 Great Jones Street in Noho fits perfectly with the company’s long-standing mission to “wake up” non-theater sites for theatrical performance." Characters Jim Wardell, farmer Ann Wardell, his wife John Wardell, 14-year-old son Sam Wardell, 12-year-old son Frank Francis, a young farmer Hilda Francis, his wife Mort Davis, an old farmer Dirdla, a Russian farmer Rose, his 18-year-old daughter Ms. Smythe, radio announcer Mr. Wordsworth, radio commentator Purcell, a rich local businessman Bagehot, a congressman Harriet, his debutante daughter Mrs. Martin, a neighbor Mary, her daughter Mrs. Doscher, another neighbor First Girl First Boy Second Girl Second Boy Third Girl Third Boy First Dowager Second Dowager Senator Another Senator Ambassador Painted Woman Young Attache Bill, Harriet's debutante ball date Governor Lee Red Cross Worker Legacy Vassar College houses a number of artifacts from and information about the play: Philalelatheis Documentary Chronicle: May 2, 1931 Experimental Theatre Manuscripts Finding Aids "Audience Held by Propaganda Play" in Vassar Miscellany News (May 6, 1931) "Through the Campus Crates" in Vassar Quarterly (July 1, 1931) "Vassar Drama Arouses World-wide Interest," Vassar Miscellany News (February 24, 1932) See also Hallie Flanagan Vassar College Living Newspaper Agitprop theatre Whittaker Chambers Bibliography for Whittaker Chambers New Masses Dust Bowl Great Depression References External links Library collections Library of Congress: Can You Hear Their Voices? George Mason University: Guide to the Federal Theatre Project playscript and radioscript collection, 1930s Other links Peculiar Works Project: Can You Hear Their Voices? (2010) Clyde Fitch Report: Interview with director Ralph Lewis (2010) Furious Improvisation: book excerpt (2009) 1931 plays Plays based on short fiction Works originally published