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Redfield Arts Audio presents

A New Monthly Show!

“Old Time Radio Revisited”

This month: The Shadow “Murder From The Grave”

Once-a-month we’ll present “Old Time Radio Revisited”, highlighting a program, actor, or personality of the Golden Age of radio drama. Martin Grams Jr. and Mark Redfield will alternate as hosts for the shows.

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This episode:

A doctor creates a secret solution which will bring the dead back to life. In the hospital morgue, he injects the serum into a dead convict, who awakens and promptly kills the doctor. The convict then steals the doctor's "life giving solution" in order to inject other dead convicts and terrorize the city with his ghoulish gang. During their crime spree, The Shadow infiltrates the gang as a disguised dead convict named "Dutch Carson." With commentary by author and Old Time Radio historian Martin Grams Jr.

Writer(s) - Script: Jerry Devine

Starring

Bill Johnstone

Marjorie Anderson

Aired date - April 6, 1941

Running time - 30 min

ABOUT Martin Grams, Jr.

Martin is an American pop culture historian who has written extensively on radio, television and films. Under the guidelines of his profession Grams provided audio commentary for commercial releases of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, written hundreds of magazine articles for scholarly journals, provided commentary for filmed documentaries and delivers lectures at various institutions including ARSC, SPERDVAC, REPS and the Library of Congress.

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https://www.martingrams.biz/

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Redfield Arts Audio presents

The Midnight Matinee

“The Resurrectionist" An Interview with Frank, The Bodysnatcher - An Original Audio Drama By Tony Tsendeas

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Recorded before a live audience at Westminster Hall in Baltimore (where Edgar Allan Poe is buried!), THE RESURRECTIONIST stars Tony Tsendeas as "Frank" and Mark Redfield as "The Interviewer". The play is an original created exclusively by Tony Tsendeas.

The Midnight Matinee, from Redfield Arts Audio, brings you original audio drama, and adaptations of contemporary and classic tales of mystery, horror and the imagination.

This performance of "The Resurrectionist" was recorded before a live audience on June 22nd, 2013 at Westminster Hall Burial Grounds, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Cast & Crew

Frank, the body-snatcher...Tony Tsendeas

The Interviewer...Mark Redfield

Lily...Mary Anne Perry

Drunk...David Crandall

Dr. Davidge...John Astin

Bartleby...Chris Pfingsten

Gretchen...Patricia Coleman

Constable...Mark Redfield

Dr. Abbott...Patricia Coleman

Night Watch...David Crandall

Announcer...Chris Pfingsten

© Mark Redfield Studios. All Rights Reserved.

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LINKS TO END TRAILER TITLES

Sherlock Holmes And The Blue Carbuncle

https://www.audible.com/pd/Sherlock-Holmes-and-the-Blue-Carbuncle-Audiobook/1645551857

The Story Of Edgar Allan Poe

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Story-of-Edgar-Allan-Poe-Audiobook/1645551172

Jeffrey Combs' NEVERMORE An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe

https://www.audible.com/pd/Nevermore-Audiobook/1645553361

"The Curse of Black Aggie"

A Ghost Story

An Original Audio Drama Written by Stuart Voytilla

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Featuring the voice talents of:

Susan Stroupe … Claire, a nun, aka “Black Aggie”

Chris Pfingsten … Edward Pausch, Saint-Gaudens

Mike Moran … cemetery attendant, Mr. Adams

Mara Neimanis … Mrs. Annie Agnus

Rebecca Eastman … Mrs. Saint-Guadens

David Crandall … Father Leland

and Mark Redfield … Felix Agnus

Original Music by Jennifer Rouse. Soundscape and Sound Effects by David Crandall. Recording Audio Engineer Bill Dickson.

Recorded before a live audience at Baltimore Theatre Project.

A ghost story. An urban legend. The legend lives! The legend kills!

“The Curse of Black Aggie” tells one possible origin story of the famous Baltimore urban legend of the sinister, and sad, “Black Aggie”. A creepy tale of artists, stolen art, stolen innocence, stolen souls, abuse, and vengeful spirits returning from the grave!

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THE MIDNIGHT MATINEE - "Valdemar" - Based On The Story By Poe (Ep 23-8)

“Valdemar“ stars the voice talents of Jennifer Rouse as “Elmira Valdemar”, J.R. Lyston as “Ernest Valdemar” and Mark Redfield as “Harlan Hurlock”.

The production was written and directed by Mark Redfield, inspired by a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Original Music and Sound Design by Jennifer Rouse.

Redfield takes his inspiration for the script from the Edgar Allan Poe short story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”, and sets his story in a dreamlike urban city in the early 20th century. A world where the rich and pampered collide with the side-show carnival huckster and con-man. A world where the greedy and selfish fall victim to their own desires, with horrifying consequences. For no man, or woman, can truly escape death… Poe’s original story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”, from which this audio play is inspired, was published in 1845. A work of horror fiction, it is also something of a hoax, as the story was originally published without claiming it was fictional, and readers believed the events described, of a man called Valdemar mesmerized at the point of death and upon coming out of the trance, devolving into a puddle of putrification. It was published simultaneously in “The American Review” and “Broadway Journal”, December 1845. Many readers thought the events to be true, until Poe admitted otherwise in his “Marginalia”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to Poe to commend him on his talent for “making horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar”. The most well-known film adaptation appears in Roger Corman’s “Tales of Terror” (1962) starring Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Redfield Arts Audio presents “Valdemar”, written and directed by Mark Redfield.

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A Preview of “Anna Christie” With Mark Redfield, Mackenzie Menter, and Jennifer Rouse (Ep 23-9)

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When we recorded Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie”, Mark Redfield and Mackenzie Menter took a break to talk about the project, and Mackenzie’s work as an actor.

Mackenzie is a young New York-based actor and singer who voices Virginia in “The Canterville Ghost”, and narrated “The Gift of the Magi” and a collection of children’s stories for Redfield Arts Audio. Just two actors shooting the breeze. As you do.

In the podcast, we hear moments from our audio production of “Anna Christie”, and the debut of Mackenzie singing "Leave Her Johnny", the theme song from “Anna Christie”.

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THE MIDNIGHT MATINEE - The Yellow Wallpaper (Ep. 23-6)

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In this audio drama adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s famous 1892 tale of a woman’s decent into madness while submitting to her doctor-husband’s “rest cure”, the themes emerge vibrantly that caused the original short story to be rediscovered and hailed as a classic of short horror fiction in the 1970s. It’s powerful message retains its clearness and strength to this day. Recorded before a live audience at Baltimore Theatre Project on Halloween night, 2013.

Adapted and directed by Mark Redfield from the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Starring Mara Neimanis as The Wife, Mark Redfield as John. With Susan Stroupe as Jennie and Chris Pfingsten as Robert.

Sound design: David Crandall.

Audio Engineer: Bill Dickson.

Live Sound FX and Foley by Mike Moran and Rebecca Eastman.

Original Music and arrangements by Jennifer Rouse.

©2019 Mark Redfield/Mark Redfield Studios

Redfield Arts Audio Presents

POE'S IRISH ROOTS

Episode 23-5

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THE POE FAMILY COMES FROM IRELAND!

It begins, as far back as can be reliably traced, to Edgar’s great-great-grandfather David Poe in the town of Dring, County Cavan, Ireland, about 75 miles north of Dublin. (There are going to be a few “Davids” in our brief re-cap, so get your score cards ready!)

There is no record of David Poe’s birth, only of his death in 1742. He was a farmer and overseer of Parrish roads in Kidallan in County Cavan. It is possible (but there is no definite proof) that he was descended from the Dr. Leonard Poe who was the official physician for King James I and later for King Charles I.

David Poe, who married a woman named Sarah, gave birth to a son called John (date unknown). John Poe (Edgar’s great-grandfather) married Jane McBride and immigrated to America sometime around 1749 or 1750. They lived briefly in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then moved and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. David and Jane had 10 children. Their son David (Edgar’s grandfather—still with me?) was born in either 1742 or 1743 before they came to America.

Featuring poetry read by Mark Redfield by:

- Edgar Allan Poe

- Samuel Beckett

- Jane Wilde

- William Butler Yeats

"Auld Lang Syne" performed by Jennifer Rouse

Original content © Mark Redfield Studios

Redfield Arts Audio presents The Midnight Matinee.

“The Black Cat 1969”

Inspired by the story The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe.

Cast of Characters

Rita… Caroline Munro

Alfie… Mark Redfield

Barman… Caesare Arena

Judge, Frederico, Bill … Mark Redfield

Sound Recordist…Bill Dickson

Sound Design and Editor…Jennifer Rouse

Set in swinging London of the 1960s, Poe’s story of an unreliable narrator who tells the tale of murder and madness, felines and felony, and a tell-tale meow I’d performed by Caroline Munro (“Sinbad and the Pirate Princess” for Redfield Arts Audio, and the films “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad”, “The Spy Who Loved Me”, “Dracula AD 1972”, and “At the Earth’s Core”) and Mark Redfield (“Sinbad and the Pirate Princess” and “Frankenstein Mobster” for Redfield Arts Audio).

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Redfield Arts Audio Presents

THE DRUM MAJOR

A Palatine Hill production

With Michael Mack as the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Narrated by Jim Pollack and Leslie Willson

Music and Sound by Jennifer Rouse

Recorded at Drat Productions. Audio Engineer, Bill Dickson

“Canaan Land” performed by Donal Leace

Special Thanks to Jeff Herberger

Produced by Michael Mack and Jim Pollock

Written and Directed by Michael Mack.

THE DRUM MAJOR explores the last and most challenging year in the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Written and Directed by Michael Mack (HOUSE OF CARDS, HEAD OF STATE, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION), THE DRUM MAJOR features narration by producer Jim Pollock, with Leslie Willson, Music and Sound Design by associate producer Jennifer Rouse, and a special performance of the song CANAAN LAND by folk music legend Donal Leace, who marched with Dr. King in the 1960s. “Mack,” who portrays the Voice of Dr. King, “is a compelling actor” raves The Washington Post.

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THE MIDNIGHT MATINEE Poe's "The Cask Of Amontillado" - John Astin and Mark Redfield (Ep 23-2)

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Recorded before a live audience at Westminster Hall in Baltimore (where Edgar Allan Poe is buried!), THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO stars John Astin as "Montresor" and Mark Redfield as "Fortunato". The play was adapted from Poe's short story and directed by Tony Tsendeas.

Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" was published in November 1846, in Godey's Lady's Book. This performance of Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" was recorded before a live audience on June 22nd, 2013 at Westminster Hall Burial Grounds, in Baltimore, Maryland, where Edgar Allan Poe is buried.

(27:35 minutes)

Cast & Crew

"Montresor" is played by John Astin

"Fortunato" is played by Mark Redfield

Announcer: Mary Anne Perry

Adapted and Directed by Tony Tsendeas

Sound Design is by David Crandall.

Recording Engineer/Technical Director is Bill Dickson of Drat Productions.

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO is a new adaptation, written and directed by Tony Tsendeas especially for Poe Forevermore Radio Theater.

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book.