In episode two of Let's Talk Brooklyn, Host Dr Susan Birne Stone talks games with Megan Minturn. Megan is a dancer and choreographer who has a new dance performance based on the secret history of one the world's most popular games, Monopoly. In this episode we talk about a game created two decades earlier called The Landlord's Game. We talk about its visionary creator Elizabeth Magie,how her game was stolen and sold to Parker Brothers as the first version of Monopoly and how Megan turned this story into a performance.
For more on this episode go to letstalkbrooklyn.blogs.v-tip.com and see the behind the scenes video of the making of the custom puppets used in the performance.