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Classic Sonic Society #25: The Shadow Man Cometh

Prologue: Robyn Patterson of Kung Fu Action Theatre talks of his love of the Sonic Society!
Before we look into our main feature this meeting, I’d like to thank you the listeners once again for your thoughts on improving our show. You can always send us your thoughts by emailing us at sonicsociety@gmail.com.
In my regular quest to find more audio cinema out in the ethers of the Internet I ran across an immaculately designed webpage from the folks at Dry Smoke and Whispers. Listening to a portion of their show “The ShadowMan” I knew I wanted to include these stories into the Society. Marc Rose gratiously sent me the first episode as a download an followed up with three gorgeous looking CD box sets. In the insert in episode one Marc writes “It all started with David Bowie. We wanted to write a character for Dry Smoke that would suit his character: his mystery, his ambiguity.” With that kind of inspiration we can certainly expect a unique story to be told. After we’ll continue our discussion about podcasting with Andy Doane from Spaceship Radio and of course end this meeting with the 5th installment of Biff Straker and Spaceways!

Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 16.7- Sam Spade Parody: Stan Slade Detective: The Burmese Penguin Caper

In our encore performance from Project Audion this season, Larry Groebe returns again to ask what do you do if you grew up listening the classic dramatic series on the radio, then found a career writing TV comedy for Bob Hope, and now, decades later, you still harbor fond feelings about those radio shows of your youth? Well, if you’re Robert L. Mills, you write shows like the one you’re about to hear.  It’s a takeoff of a certain famous detective whose name sounds awfully similar to OUR show’s hero, named Stan Slade. The original “Adventures of Sam Spade” was broadcast in the late 1940s and early ’50s. It starred Howard Duff as the detective created by Dashiell Hammett. It was a fun show that never took itself entirely seriously. Mr Mills has nudged his tribute a little further into the tongue-in-cheek — or should I say tongue in beak? -territory, reuniting the detective with his old adversaries from the Maltese Falcon movie, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Everyone in our cast gets to have some fun with this adventure of Stan Slade, Detective, entitled “The Burmese Penguin Caper”. 

Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 16.5- LIBROMENDEL

Sonic Summerstock starts the month of August with a barn-burner of an original adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s famous short story, “Buchmendel”! The Gray Area’s director, writer, producer, and actor, Edward Champion pulls out all the stops for this performance- “LIBROMENDEL”, So sit back and relax with this incredible full modern classic!

Sonic Society #867- Shadowy Endings

The final blast from “Realm” Jack and David find “The Shadow Files of Morgan Knox”. Morgan Knox can see the Darkness coming…but that may not be enough to stop it from destroying the world. In 1930’s Manhattan, a Latina private detective is posthumously hired by a man hoping to solve his own murder. Morgan Knox is just the right investigator for the job: ever since her experience in World War I left her with the ability to see paranormal phenomena, she’s had one foot in the shadows and another in the real world. As the case leads her through the city, Knox battles more forces beyond human sight: corruption, greed, and temptation have taken Manhattan by storm, and if she isn’t careful, she could be the Darkness’ next victim. The Shadow Files of Morgan Knox is a Realm production written by K Arsenault Rivera, Brooke Bolander, Gabino Iglesias, and Sunny Moraine. This week we take a look back the first feature: “The Book Collector”!

Sonic Society #866- Sparked Stories

In another attempt to break out of the horror “Realm” Jack and David find “Spark Hunter”! When the world’s most advanced AI evolves past the limits of human intelligence, the US government fears she has gone rogue and is determined to take her out. Now, over dinner with her Maker, a final meal will determine if she represents a new hope for the world… or its destruction. Realm presents Spark Hunter, a Fighter Steel Production, starring Mark Rylance, Rebecca Ferguson, and Linda Powell with Charles Dance and Sting. Directed by Trudie Styler. Written by KB Miller and Teressa Tunney.

Sonic Society #865- Sanctumortuary

Still captured in the incredible horror “Realm” Jack and David discover Dark Sanctum from Mark Ramsey Media. An award-winning, thrilling audio fright-fest. Each season features seven new original stories about things that go bump in the night, inspired by The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt. This week episodes one and two with “Extraordinary Experience” and “Damned”! Keep an eye out for season 2!

Sonic Society #864- Bound by Bark

Trying to get unstuck from the horror “Realm” Jack and David discover “Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production”. Judith Antoni’s friend Claire has gone missing. Well, she’s alive, but she’s taken off and no one can track her down. Judith enlists the help of her friend Owen to start digging through the recordings made when Claire took possession of a house in Parkdale and things started to get… kind of weird.

Sonic Society #863- Beatrix Horror

Pulling themselves away from an Actual Play, David and Jack find themselves drawn into the horror zone of the Audioverse with Beatrix Greene. Written by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, this historical horror story traps a group of sleuths in a haunted house desperate to escape the wrath of a vengeful ghost. Beatrix Greene makes her living by playing pretend. She knows the seances she conducts are fake, but financial freedom for a single woman in Victorian England is hard to come by. So when notorious scientist James Walker makes her a proposition—prove that ghosts are real, once and for all, for a hefty price—she can’t resist the temptation. But the ghosts of Ashbury Manor are very real, indeed, and when Beatrix summons one by accident, she and the other guests of the evening are terrified but find the doors of the manor won’t allow escape. Only unraveling secrets from the Manor’s past will banish the ghost for good.  Beatrix Greene is a Realm production, written by Rachel Hawkins, Ash Parsons, and Vicky Alvear Shecter!

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