Radio plays...interested?
Fri, 22 Mar 2002, 01:15 pmMichelle5 posts in thread
Radio plays...interested?
Fri, 22 Mar 2002, 01:15 pmRadio plays were a specialty of their own and incredibly popular until tv came along. Alas, they were gone before I came along, but I did get to hear one, about 15 years ago and have been fascinated with this form of acting ever since.
I would really like to hear from other people who have an interest, love of or even experience in doing plays specifically for radio. It is a unique form of acting all its own. Would be interested to hear particularly from people in Melbourne, but anywhere else is great too.
Michelle
I would really like to hear from other people who have an interest, love of or even experience in doing plays specifically for radio. It is a unique form of acting all its own. Would be interested to hear particularly from people in Melbourne, but anywhere else is great too.
Michelle
RE: Radio plays...interested?
Fri, 22 Mar 2002, 05:02 pmI love a good radio play, and I feel it's a sadly diminished art. Classics, and similarly text-driven pieces, are particularly well served by this medium as you can really get into the words, and the words alone, without any other distraction (except, perhaps, for the occasional sound effect).
ABC shops carry a great range of radio plays on CD. I seem to recall seeing several Shakespeare recordings released quite recently by an English theatre company the last time I was in there. ABC Classic FM also has a weekly slot called 'Sound Stage' - I think it's on Wednesday nights - where they will often have full length radio plays, poetry readings, 'soundscapes' incorporating voices, music, readings, recordings etc etc...
Three particular programmes from this stick in my memory: a radio dramatisation of Homer's 'Odyssey' presented by the RSC, 'Diary of a Madman' read by Kenneth 'Carry On' Williams (absolutely unbelievably amazing) and, in about 1994, the Bell Shakespeare Co's 'Pericles' which I recall listening to with great interest while doing my year 11 calculus homework, to see if I could pick the Grads-boy-made-good David Meadows as third thug from the left. I couldn't, but it was still great to listen to.
Amanda Chesterton
ABC shops carry a great range of radio plays on CD. I seem to recall seeing several Shakespeare recordings released quite recently by an English theatre company the last time I was in there. ABC Classic FM also has a weekly slot called 'Sound Stage' - I think it's on Wednesday nights - where they will often have full length radio plays, poetry readings, 'soundscapes' incorporating voices, music, readings, recordings etc etc...
Three particular programmes from this stick in my memory: a radio dramatisation of Homer's 'Odyssey' presented by the RSC, 'Diary of a Madman' read by Kenneth 'Carry On' Williams (absolutely unbelievably amazing) and, in about 1994, the Bell Shakespeare Co's 'Pericles' which I recall listening to with great interest while doing my year 11 calculus homework, to see if I could pick the Grads-boy-made-good David Meadows as third thug from the left. I couldn't, but it was still great to listen to.
Amanda Chesterton