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A show about a struggling actor navigating the indignities of auditions?

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2026

Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Her acting is grounded in the particulars of an aging body and the indignities and frustrations of daily living.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

It is a great challenge to pay sustained attention to any one of the onslaught of moral or legal indignities unfolding in this moment.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2025

Like many other Colored people of that era, he saw education as the pathway his children could follow to escape indignities and dangers, large and small.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson