We are so excited to finally present our latest radio play that we have been working on since August.  Normally the SmorgShow players re-enact classic radio dramas, but in this episode, we aim to deliver something a bit different.  This time, we present to you a radio adaptation of “Rope”, a 1948 American psychological crime thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton.  

In our story, just before hosting a dinner party, Philip Morgan and Brandon Shaw strangle a mutual friend to death with a piece of rope, purely as a Nietzsche-inspired philosophical exercise. Hiding the body in a chest upon which they then arrange a buffet dinner, the pair welcome their guests, including the victim’s oblivious fiancée and the college professor whose lectures inadvertently inspired the killing.

 

The Cast (In Order of Appearance):

• Brandon Shaw – Thomas Larsen
• Phillip Morgan – Geoff Wells
• Mrs. Wilson – Chris Wells
• Kenneth Lawrence – Kip Coon
• Janet Walker – Ally Bockay
• Mr. Henry Kentley – Jerome Malauskas
• Mrs. Anita Atwater – Kim Bockay
• Rupert Cadell – Chris Bockay
• Man on Street – Baba Gonesh