Homophones are not unusual to us in the Sonic Society but when we speak of Serial out of the Box we’re not talking about the your breakfast food in a bowl but rather the popular Pandora (sadly blocked here in Canada) being awarded streaming rights for season two of the immensely popular NPR series- Serial.
Care to have a listen in? Be prepared to open the box!
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!
Debuting on October 29th, just in time for Halloween, Petaluma Radio Players resurrect the iconic Shadow in a live performance of the old time radio series in a Petaluma barn. Go grab your tickets for the back to back performances of “Flames of Death” and “Death in the Tomb” by going to the Petaluma 360.
The Macaulay Library at Cornell University, home of the world’s largest and oldest collection of nature recordings, just uploaded the whole, totally searchable, archive online for free. 9,000 species from across the world are documented in 150,000 audio recordings, totaling 10 terabytes and a run time of 7,513 hours.
The library has been building its holdings since 1929, amassing recordings from 75% of the world’s bird species (it operates within the Cornell Lab of Ornithology after all) and a growing collection of insect, fish, frog, and mammal recordings as well. It took the archivists a dozen years to digitize the whole kit and caboodle.
This represents just a small fraction of the estimated 8.7 million species living on earth, and still, it’s far and away the best catalogue detailing what life on earth sounds like.
So get downloading some of the best sounds for your next great African adventure in audio drama!
Tom Meadows waxes absolute poetry in describing his love for the audio adventures of Hunt the Truth in his article at moviepilot.com.
Listening to HUNT the TRUTH provoked nostalgia in me, bringing back those memories of The Shadow. In some way, it felt as though I was a child again. Radio Dramas and Audio Series are more effective and popular than most people today would think. At times, if executed perfectly, can be just as much if not more entertaining than movies. I say that because unlike movies where it is unfolding before your eyes, Audio alone leaves visualization to you and you alone allowing your imagination to be mesmerized by the drama you’re hearing.
And I can honestly say, HUNT the TRUTH more than exceeded in delivering us a dramatic and thrilling tale about the Halo universe as we know it.
Are you sold? Time to go hunt for your own truth with Episode 0.
From audio tape to film strip as hit Radio 4 play from Morwenna Banks makes its way to Hollywood. Great audio drama scripts get worked into movies at times and this story about the tragedy of cancer among a group of friends is no exception. Banks who has made a name for herself writing comedic characters won the annual Tinniswood award for radio drama for the play, and when accepting the prize she thanked those who had taken a chance on a “cancer drama with laughs”, adding that Goodbye was her attempt “to make sense of the death of three friends”. All the details of Morwenna Banks, the radio play Goodbye and the subsequent film can be found in this article from The Guardian
Through the years we’ve seen many adaptations from movies, stage, and novel form into the medium of audio drama. It’s rare to see the reverse, but Sam Wheeler from Bates College is taking Norman Corwin’s famous “They Fly through the Air with the Greatest of Ease” and adding stage directions and elements to contextualize to a stage play. In preparation, Mr. Wheeler read 25 scripts to get ready to bring the theatre of the mind to the theatre of the stage. Details can be found in Riley Hopkin’s article in The Bates Student.
It seems like everyone everywhere are getting into the act. Radio Drama on the stage is a fantastic way to get a production mounted and shown to audiences. Main Street Theatre is no exception. October 23rd, 24th and 25th at the Native Sons Hall, in Sutter Creek, MST proudly presents “The Count of Monte Cristo” one of our favourites. If you’re in the area, go have a listen and a look see!
Details from Broadway World.
Long time friend of the Society and host of the awesome Radio Drama Revival, Fred Greenhalgh and his production company FinalRune Productions have worked together with Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez to reproduce their hit graphic novel Locke & Key as a powerful audio drama with over fifty actors including such stars as Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Kate Mulgrew (Orange Is The New Black), and Haley Joel Osment (Sixth Sense, A.I.). A great I09 review tells the tale, and be sure to download the full production on Audible.
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