Tag: Re-imagined Radio

Reimagined Jack

From Jack J. Ward’s “Retro Rockets” Anthology, John Barber of Reimagined Radio brings us a feature of two of those episodes including “A Chaste Kiss Good-bye” and “Chrysalis”.
From the site:
This the third time Re-Imagined Radio has featured Jack J. Ward, a Canadian award-winning writer, director, actor, and producer of audio dramas, as a Guest Writer/Producer. We sampled from his “Good Day for a War” for our 16 May 2022 production of Fall of the City. Our June 2023 episode Coast To Coast, featured four science fiction fantasy stories produced by Ward’s production collaborative, Sonic Cinema Productions for his Retro Rockets Anthology series. All were original radio dramas “from the Golden Age of Science Fiction to the undiscovered worlds of the future.”

Jack likes to call his works “audio dramas.” They’re his passion. “Audio Drama has a vibrant community of like-minded artists,” he says, “nothing quite matches the immediate response that can come from producing a story in the audio format.”

We agree, and would add, “Nothing quite matches listening to well-crafted radio stories.”

It’s good to hear Jack’s audio dramas again.

Check out the show here: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/jack-ward/index.html

Or wait until Sunday on Mutual when the Sunday Showcase will release this feature!

Great Day for the City

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

Seasonal Frights!

Re-imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop's performance of War of the Worlds at the Kiggins Theater, Thursday, October 30, 2014. (Steven Lane/The Columbian)

Re-imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop’s performance of War of the Worlds at the Kiggins Theater, Thursday, October 30, 2014. (Steven Lane/The Columbian)

Wilamette Radio Workshop and Re-imagined Radio have partnered again to bring back some seasonal holiday favourites from their version of War of the Worlds, to The Fall of the City, and R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) with Washington State University Vancouver.

Scott Hewitt provides the details in his article Bits ‘n’ Pieces: Radio plays scare up some chills at Kiggins for the Columbian.

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