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