Showcasing the very best in new Audio Drama
A stellar evening of post-Halloween audio drama as David introduces the remake of “Clay Pigeon Shooting” from Electric Vicuna Productions starring John Bell from Bells in the Batfry and Cayenne Chris Conroy from Teknikal Diffikulties, and two grand shorts from Richard Summers (AKA Captain Radio) with “The Weeping Tree” and “The Witch and the Air Traffic Controller”!
Tonight Jack and David present three shows beginning with the feature Kraken Mare from the good folks at YAP Audioand The Audio Drama Production Podcast. Ending with two shorts- Bells in the Batfry episode #149 and the remake of the classic Wavefront from EVP Name Please starring Erika Sanderson and David Ault.
It’s Audio Drama Time!
David Ault brings us the season finale of Sonic Summerstock Playhouse with “Death of a Doll” from The Narada Players and Pete Lutz, and “Candy Matson- The Black Cat” from Jack Ward and the Shadowlands Theatre Players. Not to mention an extra at the end!
Kevin Hartnell’s music in the audio drama world is right up there with other greats like Kevin MacLeod from Incompetech, Jeffrey Gage from Colonial Radio Theatre, Peter Van Riet from Epic Audio and Sharon Bee from EVP.
So, it’s always with the enthusiasm of Christmas morning that we get news of more of his work being part of the Creative Commons. So go to the Kevin Hartnell Free Music Archive Page and use whatever tracks you can for your next great opus. Just make sure you follow the CC instructions and give the man credit where credit is due!
Tonight we have a three-pack of audio drama for your listening pleasure with Tyler Polk’s award winningLarceny, Seespace Labs reproduction of EVP’sDeathbed Confessions, and a Gallowtree Radio second season episode Stop Arking About. It’s Audio Drama Tonight.
Erik Hermansen from Seespace Labs has taken one of our Electric Vicuña Dead Line Favourites- Deathbed Confessions– and provided a new performance from actors Dray James, Ray Stewart. Audio processing by Terrance Robinson. Music, foley, and editing by Ray Stewart. Directed by Siyence McGhee.
To listen to this awesomely creepy rendition, go to the Seespace Labs Soundcloud page!
When I conceived of The Dead Line Anthologies at EVP Studios, I thought the narrator was a “voyeur in a wired world”. Often times, audio drama producers ask the question “Is Anyone Listening?”. I would argue that over the course of a decade, we’ve made great strides.
Samuel Morrison from The Cornell Sun asks the same question in this article Is Anyone Listening? Morrison writes about radio drama:
Discovering this medium has single handedly salvaged my slumber and opened me up to a new world of immersive storytelling armed with only the power of sound. It is visceral and real, and it attains psychological realism in a way that other mediums sometimes cannot.
Check out the rest of Samuel Morrison’s thoughts on the medium, and his plea to listen to great audio drama!
The Kiggins Theatre has become a regular destination for Willamette Radio Workshop.
“Radio is better because the pictures are better,” says Sam Mowry, Willamette Radio Workshop director and one of our all time favourite actors (catch his performance in EVP‘s Muse of Madness)
From the article: The Magic of Old Time Radio Rings Through Kiggins:
The Willamette Radio Workshop has carved itself a successful niche performing holiday and other themed shows — like “The War of the Worlds” at Halloween, “A Radio Christmas Carol” in December and “The Hobbit” for author J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday every January — but director Mowry said he loves branching out farther. Last Halloween, instead of “The War of the Words,” Willamette Radio tried two early science fiction classics, “R.U.R.” and “The Fall of the City”; and earlier in the year it was an original Superman script, locally relevant and blatantly political, about oil trains and environmental danger.
“We’re always looking for new and different things and John Barber has helped us push that boundary,” Mowry said. “This year for Women’s History Month, isn’t it great that we can do two of the greatest shows ever written for radio — and they were written by a woman?”
You can believe in the magic of radio drama as well. Willamette Radio Workshop is a little bit of fairy-dust in Portland and beyond!
As you wait for the next great Biff Straker episode, enjoy the incredibly fun and orgiinal PULP-0-MIZER. It slices and dices, and provides the very best of diesel punk!
Biff fights to survive with Angela Degan and Professor Thermopoli in the Pool of Death before they make their escape to “The Man they call Methuselah”
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