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  • 1.  Radio Plays, or other play ideas for next year?

    Posted 05-02-2020 14:44
    Has anyone produced a great radio play for stage performance? I'm looking at scripts for our fall play and am looking for options that either transition well to digital / virtual performance. Or a play that works in an outdoor setting - i.e. a few years back we did a traveling site-specific production of Macbeth. Thanks for your ideas! I'm stuck.

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    Lindsay Hearn Brustein
    St. Stephen's Episcopal School
    Austin TX
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  • 2.  RE: Radio Plays, or other play ideas for next year?

    Posted 05-02-2020 15:19
    If a one-act interests you, many years back I directed a stage version of the radio play My Client Curley by Norman Corwin and it was a lot of fun! Lots of roles, fast-paced, and the students loved it!
    There are many radio drama scripts available on this site:
    https://www.simplyscripts.com/radio_all.html
    You might find one or two there that would work in either medium.
    All the Best to you and your students!

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    Rosalind Flynn
    Head of the M.A. in Theatre Education
    Director, The High School Drama Institute
    The Catholic University of America
    Washington, DC
    drama.cua.edu/graduate/MATE
    drama.cua.edu/summer
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  • 3.  RE: Radio Plays, or other play ideas for next year?

    Posted 05-03-2020 06:12
    Try The Invisible Man.available from Dramatists. There are a bunch of scripts by John de Lancie, too. I've seen It's a Wonderful Life as well. Then there is Prairie Home Companion. You can get a bunch of scenes from that

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    Elisabeth Ledwell
    Falmouth MA
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  • 4.  RE: Radio Plays, or other play ideas for next year?

    Posted 05-03-2020 09:06
    Hi,

    The John de Lancie/Cecilia Fannon scripts are available at https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/, not Dramatists. We have done "The Halloween Trilogy", "The Lost World" as well as "War of the Worlds", "A Christmas Carol" and "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". We received permission from Barbara Robinson to adapt the story for radio.

    They were fun and reasonably inexpensive to produce.

    Thanks,

    Dana


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    Dana Taylor
    Dana W. Taylor Consulting, LLC
    Evansville IN
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  • 5.  RE: Radio Plays, or other play ideas for next year?

    Posted 05-03-2020 08:23
    I remember a full-length radio play for the stage called Jake Revolver. I think the author is Konkel. We used to carry it, but don't anymore. I remember it as being pretty funny with a flexible cast.

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    Jean Klein
    Playwright/Founder HaveScripts/BlueMoonPlays
    Playwriting Teacher in MFA program, Wilkes University]
    Virginia BeachVA
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  • 6.  RE: Radio Plays, or other play ideas for next year?

    Posted 05-03-2020 10:53
    There is a published radio play version of It's a Wonderful Life that is very good.

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    Tim Buchheit, Director
    Department of Theatre and Speech
    St. Francis Borgia Regional High School
    Washington, Mo.
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  • 7.  RE: Radio Plays, or other play ideas for next year?

    Posted 05-03-2020 11:59
    I've done:

    It's a Wonderful Life, Radio Show- terrific Playscripts

    Vintage Hitchcock Radio Show Playscripts.


    There are a lot of Radio scripts from the 1930's and 1940's online as well.


    It's a great experience to do all the sound effects live and see what it takes to make sounds. Sometimes it is so far from what you thought it would be. And sometimes a shoe is just a shoe.

    Break a leg and may all your theatre seats be filled.


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  • 8.  RE: Radio Plays, or other play ideas for next year?

    Posted 05-03-2020 23:56
    Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS is a classic spy radio play that he produced when he still lived in England.  Great play for teaching the British dialect.  Two Brit friends of mine "watched" our students perform it and thought their accents were better than those at home.  We added music and sound effects to help make it more realistic.

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    Steve Halper
    Theatre Assistant
    Salpointe Catholic High School
    Tucson, AZ
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