Monday Matinee

Radio drama program featuring the Northside/Southside Players of Chicago. The script for The Summons was adapted by Carol Seymour from a 1914 Old West short story by Canadian author George Pattullo.

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Poison is on the stereo, the guitar is plugged into the console and the biscuit-tin is all but empty. This is “Biscuits for Tea“, the story of two young flatmates who have recently left university and now find themselves considering what life might have in store next. Faced with broken relationships, dead end jobs, empty bank accounts and too much spare time to fill; they quickly work out that they’ll have to help each other out if they’re to get through this. That is, as long as they don’t irritate each other to death first…

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This week we complete Roar Creative Productions feature with "The Grove"! Written and directed by Meg Toogood and episodes 4-6.

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Welcome to June at the Matinee! This week Federal Stonecipher brings us Sonic Society #718, Biscuits for Tea, and Northside/Southside Radio Players: The Summons!

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British comedy is an inspiration!  Everything from films produced by the Ealing Company, Spike Milligan and The Goon Show, Monty Python, Keeping Up Appearances, you name it!  I love the laughs, and decided to try writing a British comedy script.  I hope you forgive the accents and enjoy it!

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“Martians Never Die” is the next in our series of updated radio sci-fi pieces from the forties and fifties. Re-recorded with new actors, modern sound effects and atmospheric music. During these productions we try to stick to the original script as closely as possible; in-turn seeking to create modern, yet strangely old fashioned pieces of radio drama…

What is the ideal bodyguard? The most ferocious looking? The most efficient killer? Or the most devoted? On Earth, you might find a combination of all three, but it’d never be as effective as the curious creature which came back from Mars with Dr. Clyde Curtis; the first human to ever step foot on the red planet…

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This week we check out a Roar Creative Productions feature with "The Grove"! When she's asked to present at the company's flagship conference graduate developer Mira Fisher must face her biggest fear - public speaking. But life at the world's coolest, biggest, wealthiest tech company is not as it seems. In the atrium of ornamental trees ancient, mythical forces are waking that will change Mira's destiny and grant her a terrifying gift. Written and directed by Meg Toogood. Sound design by Ed Clarke. This week the first three episodes.

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Federal Stonecipher opens the last week of May at the Matinee with Sonic Society #717, Martians Never Die, and Northside/Southside Radio Players: Put the Kettle On!

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Original radio comedy performance with music featuring Flywheel, a wisecracking crooked lawyer, and his bumbling assistant Emanuel Ravelli. The play is based on the 1930s radio series "Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel." Three original songs by David Drazin are included: "Wilbert, the Butler," "Just Give Me Food," and "Radio is Great ee-Oh." Written and directed by David Drazin. Other cast members are Carol Seymour, Tom Gollagly, Nick Palumbo, and Joe Urbancik.

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Jenny is standing in her bedroom, cleaning a pair of walking boots. She is in her under-slip. There is a mirror, a small table, a rail of clothing and a double bed. A long nighty is on top of the bed and underneath it, sits a small cardboard box. She patiently waits for her husband to return, while outside the rain continues to fall, as it has done all day…

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