Current CADS production
Radio days!
We're currently working on more radio plays for Royston Radio! The first one we submitted was a version of our award-winning play Strangers on a Film, which was broadcast last August, and the second a recording of The Hitch-Hiker by Lucille Fletcher, a play first broadcast in 1941 on the Orson Welles Show on CBS. Our version of Hitch-Hiker was broadcast on Royston Radio on Wednesday 26 June and may well be repeated from time to time, so listen out for it!
Our next radio venture is by an old friend of the group - local writer, actor and director Nick Warburton (who also wrote our one-act contribution to this year's Royston Arts Festival, Don't Blame It On the Boots) - and it's entitled Losing the Plot. Amanda is very keen on her allotment and thinks everyone should feel the same. So when Edward appears on the scene she encourages him to apply for the plot next to her own. But Edward has his own rather idiosyncratic ideas about what to do on an allotment which don't go down well with the other plot holders...
The characters and actors are as follows:
- Amanda - keen allotment gardener - Julia Cole
- Edward - diffident and somewhat solitary - Darren Dunford
- Bernie - chair of the Allotment Association - Rupert Jordan
- Mr Coggan - member of the Association - Michael Young
- Mrs Stevenson - elderly, neurotic
- Telephone Operators (6 separate roles including Chief Operator Miss Curtis)
- 1st Man - heavy-set criminal
- 2nd Man - also criminal, possibly with foreign accent
- Information
- Hospital Receptionist - middle-aged, practical
- Western Union Employee
- Sergeant Duffy - experienced police officer
- Lunch Room Attendant - young, could be either male or female
Beyind this, we have many ideas for future radio recordings, so please check the usual sources.