David brings us “Epiphany” part one from Sandbox Radio Live as our final episode of 2015. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
Category: Holiday (Page 3 of 5)
As we get closer to the end of the year, reflections on the past, anxiety in the present, and dire predictions for the future provide all kinds of fear in the season. No matter what you do, our guarantee from David Ault and Jack Ward and everyone of us that listens as a Society member is that we’re here. We’ve come together in this past decade and longer, to share, to grow, and to expand our wonder at the world of audio storytelling.
Keep Calm. The story of the original poster is a testament to the power of words. And whether they are written on a piece of paper and hidden away for fifty years, or recorded in digital format and nearly lost for fifty years, words have meaning. Stories are perhaps the very stuff of the universe as certainly as they are the stuff of the human soul.
From all of us, to all of you, on this great spinning little blue marble against the ebon sea. We have one thing to say…
Keep Calm. And carry on listening to Audio Drama.
And Merry Christmas
David Farquhar and Voices in the Wind Productionsbrings us “The Spirit of Christmas” for our holiday week episode. Jack and David, together again banter. Be safe, be warm, be happy, and listen to great audio drama through the seasons!
With a SPECIAL EXTRA seasons greetings from the First Society Member!
Our old friends at Quicksilver Radio Theater are at it again! This time with a performance tonight of the eternal Dracula at Episcopal Actors’ Guild. Ticket includes a wine and cheese reception following the show. Proceeds will benefit the charitable programs of EAG, which offers financial support to New York performers “of all faiths, and none.” So go and have some fun!
Christmas has its Claus. Halloween has its own incredible iconic figures. One of the most important of course is the eternal Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Hamilton-Gibson Productions brings their own Dracula adaptation for the audio drama. Get your tickets while you can and enjoy the frights!
Re-imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop’s performance of War of the Worlds at the Kiggins Theater, Thursday, October 30, 2014. (Steven Lane/The Columbian)
Wilamette Radio Workshop and Re-imagined Radio have partnered again to bring back some seasonal holiday favourites from their version of War of the Worlds, to The Fall of the City, and R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) with Washington State University Vancouver.
Scott Hewitt provides the details in his article Bits ‘n’ Pieces: Radio plays scare up some chills at Kiggins for the Columbian.
From the August 27th issue of the Independent:
Johnny Vegas directs and acts in The Toffee Tip, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy. “And they have listening figures that TV at that time of day would kill for,” says Jane Anderson, radio editor at the Radio Times. (The BBC happily confirms this. Drama on Radio 4 attracts almost seven million listeners a week.) “But I think many other people have this view that radio drama is always about the Irish potato famine or middle-class people with dark secrets that come back to haunt them. Once you have that in your mind, it’s hard to listen without thinking, ‘Oh God’, and switching off.”
Listeners who overcome that instinct are rewarded. Anderson cites as one recent triumph Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, the biographical play in which John Hurt played the titular columnist.
It’s the summertime and that’s a good time to sit back and listen to audio drama. But, for many writers, it’s also the time they can find a quiet place to work on their latest opus. The purpose of your writing may be entirely up to you, but Esta de Fossard decided that writing audio drama for social development was an excellent way to get the message across when you entertain.
Here is her own opus, appropriately titled How to Write a Radio Serial Drama for Social Development. While you’re lazing in your hammock, have a read, and a thought to how you can transform the world today with Audio story!
If you’re a producer, writer, director, or actor of audio drama. It’s not unusual to see how much of your favourite medium takes up much of your time. For those of us who have many hats in the process, you can imagine thinking of new shows, writing, recording, and post-production takes up much of our waking lives.
But the things you love to do, never exhaust you like the drudgery of those tasks that are chores. You may get tired making radio plays, but you’ll be just as energized by the production. In the meantime, take some time this Easter weekend and spend time with your families, appreciate the coming Spring season, and rest because tomorrow there’s always more for you to listen from the world of modern audio theatre.
From all of us at the Sonic Society, to all of you, have a happy and safe holiday!
Bangwave Radio wants you to celebrate World Theatre Day with Radio Drama. And why not? Can you think of a better way than to listening to some great OTR like The Halls of Fantasy or The Haunting Hour? Or of course, you can just tune in to Sonic Echo every Friday night for the rest of Season 10 of the Sonic Society and get you thirst for old time radio quenched there!