Icebox Radio Theater does my play: The Wind & The Cold

Icebox Radio Theater in northern Minnesota just posted their production of my radio play, The Wind & The Cold.  They've done a very nice job, and it comes at a time when we're dealing with lots of snow and wind here in Boston.  Luckily, we don't have to face anything like the characters in the play. 


Here's the summary (it runs about 30 minutes, but it's in segments, so you don't have to listen all at once):

Two lovers head for a winter retreat with a blizzard on its way.  Jacques (a Northern boy) is excited.  Katrina (a Florida girl) is terrified.  When their differences boil over into a fight, they find themselves in the middle of an identical fight between two elemental forces of nature in this wonderful fantasy by playwright Patrick Gabridge.


Check it out.

(You can read all about my radio plays, and listen to some, here.)

Wind and the Cold radio play available on-line

Shoestring Radio Theatre, which produced my radio play, The Wind and the Cold, a number of years ago, now has posted the audio files to their Facebook page.  The play runs about 28 minutes and is a good listen.  I'll paste the synopsis below.  You can download the mp3 file by clicking here.  I hope you'll check it out.


The Wind and The Cold
  Pierre and Katrina are two lovers stranded and lost in a blizzard.  As they try to find their way back to each other, they become caught in a romantic battle between the mystical forces of the Wind and the Cold.

This week: you can listen to my radio play, Love & Lightning online

Shoestring Radio Theatre has my radio play Love & Lightning available on their web site for listening all of this week. It's my only radio show that's available on the web (and only for this week). So check it out if you can--it's a 27-minute (very dark) comedy about a romantic weekend on the prairie that goes horribly wrong.

This is more of my early work that's resurfacing. This script was written around 1993 or so, and this production is from 1996.

Here's link: http://www.shoestring.org/listen.html

Tundra Games on KUSF tonight at 9:30pm (Pacific)

Shoestring Radio Theatre's production of my radio play, Tundra Games, will be on KUSF in San Francisco tonight at 9:30pm (Pacific time). You can listen online at http://kusf.org/index.shtml. Should be another fun (they broadcast my radio play Love & Lightning last week). Let me know if you listen.


Here's synopsis of the show (it runs about 27 minutes):

Hickey is a professional killer cooped up in the middle of an arctic blizzard with his next target, Simon. But the bullets are at home, and they're out of food. Hickey's partner, Rose, shows up just in time, with ammunition and provisions, but Hickey has lost his nerve. Rose takes Simon out to finish the job. She returns and explains that rather than shooting Simon, she pushed him off the back of her snowmobile and left him to freeze. There's just one problem-they have no proof to show their employers that they actually did the job. Rose thinks up a drastic solution, but it's gonna hurt.

Love & Lightning on KUSF tonight at 9:30pm (Pacific)

Shoestring Radio Theatre's production of my radio play, Love & Lightning, will be on KUSF in San Francisco tonight at 9:30pm (Pacific time). You can listen online at http://kusf.org/index.shtml. Should be a fun show. Let me know if you listen.


Here's synopsis of the show (it runs about 27 minutes):
Stan and Teri are in the midst of a pleasant weekend bicycling across the prairie, when a storm suddenly appears and Stan is struck by lightning. He is left blind and paralyzed, with only Teri to help him. As she struggles to protect him from the storm, Teri discovers an engagement ring in Stan's backpack. This is the moment she's been waiting for! She's perfectly willing to marry Stan, despite his infirmities. But inside the ring box is a rejection note from Stan's girlfriend. How's he going to get out of this one?

Good News: more radio time

Just got some good news that my radio play, Love and Lightning, will be rebroadcast this November in San Francisco, by the Shoestring Radio Theatre, on KUSF (90.3 FM). It's a dark, but fun, comedy about a man struck by lightning while out bicycle riding with a woman who was certain he was going to propose marriage to her (he wasn't). I'm glad it'll have a chance to reach an audience again.

Someday, when I have a little more time (okay, most of my fantasies in life involve magically finding more time), I want to try to get versions of my radio plays digitized and available as podcasts on my web site. (Right next to my short films.) They've all been broadcast at some point or other, but I know online they could potentially reach even more people. At some point (after my magic wands adds an extra third and fourth hour to the day, and the energy use them for more than sleeping), I'd like to re-record some of them with my favorite Boston actors.