Audio Dramas
Having worked on live radio dramas ever since I started doing theatre in high school, the format has a special place in my heart. While times have changed much since the radio drama heyday in the 1930s through the 1960s, the art form is still very much alive and exciting. With advances in modern theatre technology, doing a live performance of an audio drama is an easy and cost effective way to mount an exciting production. These scripts can be presented as either a long one act or with an intermission depending on your theatre’s needs. With only the need for six to eight actors and featuring live sound effects on stage, original music, projected backgrounds, and a simple costume design these scripts adapt stories that tend to be very difficult or impossible for most theatres to do for a variety of reasons (large casts, special effects, expansive settings, etc…). An audio drama is a perfect choice for small community theatres, schools, a showcase performance, or a benefit.
Past Productions
Available Audio Dramas
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“Man is not truly one, but two.” With these words, Dr. Henry Jekyll embarks on a dark experiment: to separate his good side from his evil side. Jekyll is partly successful: Edward Hyde emerges from these experiments to terrify Victorian London. As Jekyll grows weaker, Hyde grows stronger, leaving Jekyll’s friends to try and discover what is wrong with their comrade. As the lies grow, the situation grows dire when a member of parliament is murdered in broad daylight. The questions remains: Are we truly responsible for our dark side? This thrilling adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic horror novel makes a perfect halloween production or anytime you need a suspenseful story.
The War of the Worlds
In this new adaptation of H. G. Wells’ classic science fiction invasion story, the war for humanity is brought to life in this thrilling production! As the British Empire stands at its greatest height, an enemy no one would have believed falls from the sky: the Martians. Fleeing Mars, which they have used up and destroyed over centuries of waste and destruction, the Martians turn to our fair planet for survival. Georgette Herbert, a newspaper reporter from the small town of Woking in Surrey, must survive after a Martian cylinder lands near her home and quickly destroys all resistance the humans are able to put up. She wanders the wastelands of England, hoping there may one day be a way to stop these terrible invaders from destroying her home.
Jane Eyre
Based off the famous 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte, this new adaptation brings the classic story of love and forgiveness alive. Orphan Jane Eyre is sent by her unscrupulous aunt to live at the Lowood Institution for Girls to train to become a governess. She is horribly mistreated during her time there and survives a typhus epidemic to finally win her freedom and become a governess. She then takes a job at Thornfield Manor where the house, her charge, and even the owner is shrouded in mystery. A strange presence is about the house and Jane is forbidden to investigate. Despite her strange surroundings, she starts falling for the mysterious owner, Mr. Rochester, which may be her greatest mistake yet…
Dracula
One of the original vampire novels jumps off the page in this new adaptation of Bram Stoker's seminal novel Dracula. After living in seclusion for centuries, the villainous Count Dracula sets his sights on Victorian England. After tricking innocent lawyer Jonathan Harker into purchasing an abandoned monastery for him, Dracula wreaks havoc on the inhabitants surrounding the property. When Lucy Westenra falls ill, Dr. Seward calls upon his former teacher Abraham Van Helsing for help who realizes that Dracula is a vampire. Our heroes must stop this creature of hell before he takes over all of England and then the world!
Alice in Wonderland
When young Alice falls down a rabbit hole, everything she thought she knew about the world is thrown out the window. Her adventures through Wonderland are as strange as the characters that inhabit the land, including a talking rabbit, a floating cat, and a queen obsessed with taking off people’s heads. Will Alice ever find her way home in this strange land? Or will she be left to wander in Wonderland? Lewis Carrol’s classic children’s tale comes to life in the vibrant adaptation.
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Upcoming Audio Dramas
The Vampire in the Ghost Town
In this original audio drama Arizona Ranger Marcus Brown is dispatched to investigate strange disappearances from around the ghost town of Santa Rachelle, he expects he will find nothing there. Much to his shock he finds a lone girl in this deserted town who quickly attacks him. He is saved by rancher Kelly Youngman and, together with local mine owner Crispus Adams, they must take down this woman who they now know is a vampire. But not all is what it seems when they find the vampire’s journal and learn what made her into such a creature…
King Kong
In this depression-era classic twist on Beauty and the Beast, actress Ann Darrow is recruited by eccentric director Carl Denham to star in his latest film, set to be shot on the mysterious Skull Island. When Ann is captured by the giant ape, Kong, it is up to Denham and the adventurer Jack Driscoll to rescue her. This adventure spans from the slums of 1930s New York to the terrifying jungles of Skull Island filled with monsters, back to the grandeur of Broadway and even the top of the Empire State Building! Based off the novelization by Edgar Wallace, this adventure is sure to excite everyone.
The Alchemist
Based off HP Lovecraft’s first published story, this one act audio drama spans centuries as the last of the noble Celcia line attempts to lift the curse from his family before he is killed on his 32nd birthday. With the help of his love, Nathalie, the last Comte de Celcia, Pierre, ventures into his family’s past to discover why the sorcerer Charles Mauvais laid such a terrible curse on his family. Will Pierre be able to lift the curse that has haunted his line for centuries? Or will the family die with him?
Wind in the Willows
Join the adventures of Toad, Badger, Mole, Ratty. and the rest of the gang down by the river in this adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s book. While his friends are content to row along the river Thames, Toad is obsessed with motor cars. But he’s already wrecked seven! Toad’s friends attempt to keep him out of trouble, but Toad has a knack for finding it and eventually ends up in jail. While Toad is away, something is happening at his ancestral home of Toad Hall. Will Toad’s obsession cost him everything? Or will his friends be able to rescue him and his hall?
The Cask of Amontillado
The thousand injuries Montressor suffered at the hands of Fortunato have driven the Venetian noble to scheme a horrible plot. Montressor lures Fortunato under his palazzo during the Venetian Carnaval with the promise of a fine case of Amontillado to sample. Murder has never been so simple. This one act adaption of the Edgar Allan Poe classic is a surefire win for Halloween or any other spooky time.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
It is said the ghost of a Hessian Soldier whose head was taken off by a cannonball in the Revolutionary War haunts the town of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane, the local schoolmaster, believes in this ghost and other supernatural occurrences around the town. An outsider in the town, the superstitious Ichabod competes for the hand of Katrina Von Tassel’s hand in marriage with local hero Bram van Brunt. Things take a turn for the worse when Ichabod has an encounter with the ghostly Horseman but none of the villagers believe him. This one act adaptation of the classic Washington Irving story is sure to be a crowd pleaser of the sinister variety.
Spotlights
Camelot Theatre in Talent, OR has a concert series where they take an artist or movement and do a program that is music from the artist mixed with their biography. I have written several of these concert series. The scripts are available for licensing but the music has to be licensed separately.