Re-Imagined Radio presents four short science fiction radio stories by Jack J. Ward, an award-winning writer, director, actor, and producer of audio drama, and more. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. That’s about as far East as one can drive a car in Canada, before running into the Atlantic Ocean. We call this episode “Coast to Coast,” to signify that Jack and his radio dramas comes to us here on the Northwest Coast of the United States from the Northeast Coast of Canada, through radio, the teleportal trans-experiential time warp theatre of the mind.
Re-Imagined Radio has celebrated the anniversary of “The War of the Worlds” several times by re-telling the story. This year, on Devil’s Night and the occasion of its 84th anniversary, Jack and David play their explorations into the radio storytelling that may have influenced Orson Welles’s radio adaptation of the 1898 novel by H. G. Welles. In addition to samples from these earlier radio stories, interviews with Welles provide additional insight for this episode, “The War of the Worlds: Possible Influences.”
Re-imagined Radio proudly presents an incredible new release of Archibald MacLeish’s “The Fall of the City” originally released from The Columbia Workshop, one of radio’s most inventive series during its Golden Age! This modern retake melds the classic tale with the original script from Jack J. Ward, “Great Day for a War”. Listen now on the website, or join us on the Sonic Society’s release of the show on May 22nd!
CAST
The Fall of the City featured members of The Willamette Radio Workshop Sam A. Mowry Chris Porter Linda Goertz Holly Spencer Tim McKinney Ricardo Delgado Mark Homayoun Adam S. Moore Alticus Mowry
Sound Design and engineering by Marc Rose Recording by Robert Kowal and Michael Gandsey Foley conductor Martin Gallagher Produced by Sam A. Mowry, Robert Kowal, and Marc Rose Co-Producer Cynthia McGean Directed by Sam A. Mowry Recorded at PCC Sylvania in Portland, OR Produced by special arrangement with Mr. Richard B. McAdoo
Great Day for a War featured The Voices Sam A. Mowry as Daniel Stone Mago Weston as Anna-Marie Hammond Sam Gregory as GlobalWeb Announcer Eric Newsome as GlobalWeb News Service Announcer Eric Newsome as President Stephanie Crowley as Sheila MacDonald Produced by special arrangement with Jack J. Ward
CREDITS
The Fall of the City written by Archibald MacLeish Great Day for a War written by Jack J. Ward Sound Design, Music, and Engineering by Marc Rose of Fuse Social Media by Regina Carol Social Media Management Promotional Graphics by Holly Slocum Design Curated and Hosted by John Barber
RESPONSES
Just so tickled pink to hitch my star with “The Fall of the City” in this amalgam. Thanks so much for giving me the opportunity! — Jack J. Ward, author of “Great Day for a War”
We’re thrilled and excited to hear this amazing fusion of the classic, “The Fall of the City” with an unproduced Jack J. Ward script “Great Day for a War”! — Sonic Society
From the Half Moon Bay Review: As a writing professor at Stanford University in 1995, Richard Holeton wrote a 500-word short story about Theodore Streleski, the Stanford graduate student who bludgeoned his faculty advisor to death with a hammer in the 1970s. He developed the story into a hypertext novel, “Figurski at Findhorn on Acid,” which for the last 12 years has been unavailable to the public due to outdated software — until now.…
Holeton also embarked on the unprecedented project of adapting the hypertext novel into a radio play. In collaboration with Emmy award-winning sound artist Marc Rose and John Barber, who wrote the screenplay adaptation, the play will debut on Re-Imagined Radio. For more information about listening, visit the main webpage for the Re-Imagined Radio website, and check the How To Listen section.
Read the full article for more and congratulations to the amazing Marc Rose and John Barber, from Re-Imagined Radio. The radio play is in good hands!
