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Classic Sonic Society #21: Pand-at-it-Again

Prologue: Tom Konkle brings us his thoughts on Audio Drama and the Sonic Society!
Returning to the Society another great fan favourite- The Red Panda. The Red Panda’s new adventures can be heard regularly through Podcast at the Radio Memories Network or through Decoder Ring Theatre’s website. I love the Red Panda because Gregg Taylor’s humour and alacrity knows exactly how much cheese we want on our meal, and how much meat. Too many turns at the heroic wheel have produced silly stories or super serious ones. The original Red Panda series has just the right mixture. In his new series, Mr. Taylor takes the Red Panda and produces an instant golden age classic to be found in the honoured halls of other greats like The Shadow and The Green Hornet. Canada’s premiere super-hero of the past, has many more adventures waiting for him in the future.
After, part two of our interview with Andrew Dorfman of The Sonic Society and a peek at what is coming up for our listeners next season. We end our meeting with a special treat for our podcasting audience, another hero stemming from the North side of the US/Canadian border. Sonic Society proudly presents the first episode of Biff Straker and Spaceways!

Mutual Stage: Bringing Up Baby

The Mutual Stage returns with another classic public domain screenplay for the world of audio drama. For the first time, the entire story of “Bringing Up Baby”
Written by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde and directed by Howard Hawks, this timeless classic starred Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. Tonight on the stage, adapted by Jack J. Ward and starring some of the greatest modern-day audio drama actors. Stephanie Stearns-Dulli, Larry Groebe, John Bell, Tom Konkle, Theresa Ireland, Patte Rosebank and Paul Arbisi and produced by John Bell, Larry Groebe and Jack Ward. Premiering in it’s two acts in last season’s Sonic Summerstock Playhouse, it is here on the Mutual Stage we enjoy it’s full run!

Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 15.9- Bringing Up Baby: Part 2

Completing our grand finale of Season 15, Sonic Cinema Productions presents the fantastic screwball comedy made popular by Howard Hawk, Cary Grant, and Katherine Hepburn- Bringing Up Baby. This public domain treasure is Jack’s all time favourite classic comedy movie and with the support of an incredible team including Stephanie Stearns-Dulli, Tom Konkle, Theresa Ireland, Patte Rosebank, John Bell, Paul Arbisi and directed by Larry Groebe, we present part two! See you next week!

Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 15.8- Bringing Up Baby: Part 1

For the beginning of our grand finale of Season 15, Sonic Cinema Productions presents the fantastic screwball comedy made popular by Howard Hawk, Cary Grant, and Katherine Hepburn- Bringing Up Baby. This public domain treasure is Jack’s all time favourite classic comedy movie and with the support of an incredible team including Stephanie Stearns-Dulli, Tom Konkle, Theresa Ireland, Patte Rosebank, John Bell, Paul Arbisi and directed by Larry Groebe, we present part one! With special thanks to John Bell!

SCP Podcast #100- Retro Rockets Presents “Spirit Drive”

From the far-flung silver age of science fiction, comes a new anthology. Retro Rockets fires off with “Spirit Drive”. A space ranger take the final report of a scientist on the death of his colleague on a far-distant moon. But, was it an accident? This keen look at the Sonic Cinema Production Podcast inaugural episode of the Retro Rockets Anthology!

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!

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