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Playwrights Local | Cleveland, OH | www.playwrightslocal.org | PL Radio presents new audio plays and other recordings produced by Playwrights Local, Cleveland's only theater devoted to original, home-grown works. Founded in 2015, our mission is to foster diverse talents and raise the profile of area playwrights both within Greater Cleveland and beyond. For more info on our season and programs, visit us at www.playwrightslocal.org.
Episodes
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
The Ghost Ship Hunter
Written by Christopher Johnston
Directed by Rachel Zake
The year is 2078. Dr. Candace Wheatstone and her partner, Frank Drake, V, use time travel to find clues to treat diseases that emerged during the era of global climate change and COVID. However, using time travel also to find evidence of ancient ghost ship stories has become Frank's hobby, often getting him into trouble. That leads to this journey back to the Arctic Ocean in the 1770s, when Frank gets blown off a ghost ship in an ice storm. Candace and her father Alexander, a distinguished forensic astrophysicist, must figure out what really froze the old pirates in place -- including one running down a corridor -- before a whaling ship found their three-masted schooner off the coast of Greenland.
Produced with Radio on the Lake Theatre
Cast
Robert Hawkes – Alexander Wheatstone, Ph.D.
Benjamin Gregg – Frank Drake, V, Ph.D.
Erin K. Moran – Cadence Wheatstone, M.D.
Sound Effects Engineer
John Watts
Music
"Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner [RoyaltyFreeMusic]
Recording (c) 2022 Playwrights Local
The Ghost Ship Hunter (c) 2021 Christopher Johnston
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/ghost-ship-hunter/.
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Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Love and Ecstasy
Written by Gail Nyoka
Directed by Terrence Spivey
From Ireland to Barbados, to Trinidad and to England, trauma passes through five generations of women. Each one denies her truth at her own cost and suffers in her own way. Each searches for love. The narrator has reached a crisis. Like her great-great grandmother, she is a seer. It is at this point of crisis that the narrator discovers her hidden abilities. Is she descending into madness? Do her ancestors have anything to teach her? And is she able to listen?
Produced with Radio on the Lake Theatre
Cast
Jeannine Gaskin - Violet / VyVy
Christina Johnson - Jean
Jill Kenderes - Susannah
Sharron McPherson-Foxx - Narrator
Sound Effects Engineer
Victoria Watts
Music
“Now The Silence” by Juan Sánchez
“Fireflies” by Whitesand
Recording (c) 2021 Playwrights Local
Love and Ecstasy (c) 2021 Gail Nyoka
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/love-and-ecstasy/.
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Sunday Aug 29, 2021
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
Things Needing Explanation
Written by Julia Fisher
Directed by Anne McEvoy
Jacklean is driving her whip-smart teenage granddaughter Georgia to her house for the weekend when they decide to play Things Needing Explanation - a game from Georgia’s childhood where the two try to outsmart each other with made-up crime scenes. But when an invented crime begins to have eerie parallels to the real world, Georgia and Jacklean must unite their love of murder mysteries and each other to solve the case and save their family.
Produced with Radio on the Lake Theatre
Cast
Dominique L. Gardner - Georgia
Nadia Salett - Hattie
Amy Schwabauer - Neely
Lisa L Wiley - Jacklean
Sound Effects Engineer
John Watts
Music
"Black Fingerprint" by Dylan Owen
Recording (c) 2021 Playwrights Local
Things Needing Explanation (c) 2021 Julia Fisher
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/things-needing-explanation/.
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Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
The Portraits
Written by Tom Hayes
Directed by Brian Zoldessy
After attending the funeral of their father, two adult siblings are stranded in a remote area next to their family plot. With a storm threatening and strange sounds coming from the nearby forest, 40-ish Ben and his younger sister Sam are forced to leave the plot on foot. As they walk, the two re-hash events of the past. They both air their grievances until the strange sounds begin to take physical form, forcing them into an abandoned house. Strangely, the house is not entirely empty and not entirely unfamiliar. There, they discover a truth they did not know, and come to terms with their shared history.
Produced with Radio on the Lake Theatre
Cast
John Busser - Ben
Lindsey Mitchell - Sam
Sound Effects Engineer
John Watts
Music
“Aftermath” by Kevin MacLeod
Recording (c) 2021 Playwrights Local
The Portraits (c) 2021 Tom Hayes
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/portraits/.
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Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Heirloom
Written & performed by Mike Geither
Heirloom is a non-fiction solo performance about four generations of my extended maternal family that’s based on interviews and historical records. Beginning with my mother and her siblings, and moving on to her father and grandfather’s lives, it examines the social and emotional inheritance of an extended family affected by incest, alcoholism, violence and genocide. It attempts to shed understanding on how any single person may affect the generation of family members that follow him or her and to glean a greater understanding of the dynamics of incest and rape.
Produced with Radio on the Lake Theatre
Sound Effects Engineer
John Watts
Music
“Royalty Free Army Music” by Dar Golan
“Royalty Free 70's Music” by Dar Golan
Special Thanks
John Watts, Karin Randoja, Dan Riordan, & Amy Schwabauer
Recording (c) 2021 Playwrights Local
Heirloom (c) 2020 Mike Geither
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/heirloom/.
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Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Family Markers
Written by Faye Sholiton
Directed by Fred Sternfeld
On a June day in 1960, a still-grieving brother and sister made a horrifying discovery. Just days after their brother's burial, someone had exhumed his body and moved it, with no forwarding address. Exactly 50 years later, two adult strangers with the same last name run into each other at the family plot. They will attempt to sort out what might have gone wrong while everybody was above ground. And whether this brand of mishegas is hereditary.
Produced with Radio on the Lake Theatre
Cast
Mary Alice Beck - Leah
John Busser - Lee
Sound Effects Engineer
John Watts
Music
“Vivaldi: Spring” by Notepad Music
Special thanks to Cantor Kathy Sebo for the use of her voice in this recording.
Recording (c) 2021 Playwrights Local
Family Markers (c) 2020 by Faye Sholiton
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/family-markers/.
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Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Limbo
Written by Agnes Herrmann
Directed by Brian Zoldessy
Tess has recently lost her mother; Susan lives with her own mother, who has crippling arthritis. They meet on a commuter train heading home, after a blown transformer cuts the power out. Tess gets claustrophobic in the dark. Susan becomes a chatterbox. The atmosphere grows stifling. The two think they have nothing in common...but do they? In Limbo, the statement “your truth is my truth” becomes a reality that neither Tess nor Susan can deny.
Produced in partnership with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Cast
Agnes Herrmann - Susan
Lindsey Mitchell - Tess
Paul Slimak - Conductor
Sound Effects Engineer
John Watts
Recorded live in studio in December 2020.
Additional information available at http://www.playwrightslocal.org/limbo/.
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Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
ENTANGLEMENT
A Historical Fantasy of Almost-Love and Almost-Loss, Art History and Entry-Level Quantum Physics
Written by Les Hunter
Directed by Christine McBurney
Entanglement reimagines the 1925 moment when physicist Erwin Schrödinger discovered quantum mechanics. In this alternate history, Schrödinger's breakthrough in physics (and love) is inspired by art historian Gertrud Bing. Bing and her mentor Aby Warburg famously asserted that all societies develop at a relatively similar and interconnected rate, despite differences of space and time. This theory is spookily similar to the phenomena of quantum entanglement, which holds that two particles, once entangled, move and change at the same moment. Schrödinger made this discovery during a two-and-a-half week sexual spree in the Swiss Alps. Cats may or may not have been killed.
Produced in partnership with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Cast
John Busser - Erik
Cathleen O’Malley - Gabriele
Sound Effects Engineers
John Watts
Victoria Watts
Recorded live at Radio on the Lake Studio Theatre in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on November 13, 2019.
Additional information available at playwrightslocal.org/entanglement.
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Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Every Play is a Radio Play When You’re Blind
Written by Meghan Louise Wagner
Directed by Constance Thackaberry
Layers of privilege collide when a naïve bridesmaid meets a semi-famous blind artist on a public bus. It’s Julia’s first time on the RTA and Jason offers to guide her across town. On the way, the unlikely pair discovers an unusual connection that is central to Jason’s art and career, making Julia the perfect subject for his next book.
Produced in partnership with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Cast
Denise Astorino - Rachel, Girl 2, Phone Rep
Leonard Goff - Bus Driver, Mechanic, Chef, Donald Lewis Osgood
Stuart Hoffman - Jason
Kyle Huff - Kevin, Rico, Server
Rachel Maria Inés - Julia
Diane Mull - Dora, Girl 1
Laura Stitt - Mom, Vanessa
Sound Effects Engineers
John Watts
Victoria Watts
Recorded live at The 5th Annual Cleveland Playwrights Festival at the Creative Space at Waterloo Arts on October 12, 2019.
Additional information available at playwrightslocal.org/everyplayisaradioplay.
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Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Stranded
A radio play by Edward J. Walsh
Directed by Tim Tavcar
Featuring Agnes Herrmann
Vickie Schultz, a reporter, is not happy. Let go by her newspaper in Cincinnati, she starts a new job in New Jersey without her family, friends, and cheating fiancé. Vickie expects to cover a breaking story about the Mayor and his female Police Chief. Instead, she’s assigned to the arrival of a whale on the shore — a huge pelagic mammal, not unlike the mythical Moby Dick. The sooner this stranded subject returns to the ocean (or doesn’t), the sooner Vickie gets her career back on track. As with her own struggles, though, the whale’s plight won’t be resolved quickly.
Recorded at Bad Racket studio in January 2018. Recording © 2018 by Playwrights Local. Stranded © 2017 by Edward J. Walsh.
Additional information available at playwrightslocal.org/stranded.
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