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The 4th Age of Modern Audio Drama

With respect to the great Kevin Hartnell’s list of best audio drama of all time, he may be adding a number of new features.

We already identified The Three Ages of Modern Audio Drama and now it would be best to identify a fourth. The third age roughly started in 2012 and can be definitively seen as ending in 2019. In 2020, as COVID-19 reintroduced the world to the term- pandemic, a number of professional actors, writers, and producers found themselves with a lot of time on their hands and a lot of creative thoughts bulging in their brains.

The Faustian Nonsense Network soon found creative outlets in A Midsummer’s Quarantine and producer, writer, and actor extraordinaire, Tom Konkle from Mindstream Players found new life in reworking Old Time Radio scripts and new originals on YouTube. And they are not alone, many groups around the world unable to launch stage productions have worked together to create online audio drama shows. Quarantine Radio Theater out of St. Louis even considered that a part of their name. Here in Halifax, Keith Morrison from Lion’s Den Theatre has also reworked popular theatre productions into online audio theatre equivalents.

With an influx of so many professionals from both Little Theatre and Hollywood engaging in the world of audio drama. How will this change the landscape of stories that are produced? Will we see more classics launched? Or will there be a number of new original plays taking flight on RSS feeds and video channels near you?

We’re betting on both!

Sonic Society #742- Things fall Apart

Jack and David return with today’s feature where we have “Entropy: An Original Sci-Fi Audio Drama“. In the year 2309, Humanity is at an all out civil war between Earth and her colonies, as the Kepler Government seeks to rule the entire Colonial Sector with an iron grip. Using Authoritarian tactics, Kepler relentlessly slaughters it’s own people in an attempt to make the Central Colonial Council (CCC)budge. With the discovery of a potential new planet suitable for colonization, the CCC and the Earth Military create a mission: To bring a team of extraordinary people to establish a base on the planet, and become beacons of hope for the dying denizens of Kepler. The first four episodes begin now…

Sonic Society #741- Wild Winds

Jack and David return and this week ur feature, ‘The Chronicles of Wild Hollow’, begins with The Boursin trilogy. In Episode One, Fandango investigates a high-rolling new nightclub in Fortuna City when Billy Bob’s customers are drawn away from Dust Town’s favourite saloon. Run entirely by frogs, the Lilypad Lounge continues to prosper night after night. Perhaps it’s simply due to their signature martini (it’s to die for…) or resident jazz band The Tadpole Trio. But upon closer inspection, Fandango suspects there’s far more going on than meets the eye. Orginal theme music for the Sonic Society provided by Edward Champion of the Gray Area podcast!

Sonic Society #740- Hot Sounds

Jack and David return with “Hot Copy Radio Theater” who re-create lost episodes of the 1940s radio show, “HOT COPY” — all adapted from the original scripts! This week, an old man is found dead, after a mysterious fire destroys a house in a wealthy neighborhood. Was it a simple accident or a sinister murder?  Newspaper reporter Anne Rogers believes that the police have it all wrong, and decides to prove it. Tune in, for the whole story because it’s AUDIO DRAMA TIME!

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