October 31, 1979: Launching The Rocket
The year 1979 was a very good year for rock music — especially in Seattle, where the legendary music monthly The Rocket debuted that year. Jeff Stevens histories you grungily.
The Ghastly Impermanence: Learning a Hard Lesson–The BBC Audio Drama Awards
At first glance it would appear the BBC have made progress after the failure of the Giles Cooper Awards. Award-winning material, especially of such high caliber, should be made available to the public so that they can revisit it. The Beeb have at least re-broadcast most of the plays, and they have made a couple available for purchase. However, the issue of access to all the plays remains inelegantly unresolved.
The Other Son (2012, FRA, dir. Lorraine Levy): Platitudes and Family Drama
Director Lorraine Levy tells the story of two teenagers, one Israeli, and one Palestinian, who discover they were switched at birth. We follow the two young men as they and their families absorb the shock, re-assess their relationships, and forge new ones.
The Ghastly Impermanence: Autumn Horrors
As my colleague Fred Greenhalgh at Radio Drama Revival notes, “October is huge in audio drama.” Why? Halloween, of course. Halloween means horror stories. Radio drama has a long and rich tradition of horror tales. Here is a beginner’s guide to some favorites.
The Argument for On The Boards, Part One
For those who value On the Boards, the title of this essay is redundant; and yet, it is with increasing alarm that I find that the majority of my fellow artists are not attending their productions.
Kidd Pivot’s The Tempest Replica at On the Boards
Kidd Pivot’s founder Crystal Pite has seized the opportunity to put her stamp on Shakespeare’s The Tempest and has crafted a work of jaw-dropping physical intensity and emotional vulnerability.
The Ghastly Impermanence: Poets and the Poetry of Radio Drama
It makes perfect sense that a culture whose most powerful public mass medium was radio should value the spoken word highly. Poets themselves were well aware of this quality of radio. It would take awhile, however, before poets began to write especially for the medium itself.
Interleavings: Serendipity and the Auto/Biographical Process
I found Dr. Remick’s name in a Little School folder. What was it doing there? It turns out that at the same time Dr. Remick was an affirmative action officer and attended that Women’s Studies meeting, she was the parent of a Little School pupil when it was in the Bellevue facility.
The Ghastly Impermanence: Exploring Radio Drama
A new regular column by Omar Willey dealing with broadcast and audio drama in all its aspects.
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