We accept PayPal, Visa & Mastercard
through our secure checkout.
|
AirPlay: An Anthology of CBC Radio Drama
AirPlay: An Anthology of CBC Radio Drama
|
Author: Dave Carley Publisher: Scirocco Drama Format: Softcover # of Pages: 160 Pub. Date: 1998 ISBN-10: 1896239110 ISBN-13: 9781896239118
|
About
the Plays:
Airplay, Anthology Of CBC Radio Drama is a book of
scripts from some of the best of CBC-Radio drama – including Emil
Sher's Mourning Dove, which transfixed the audience of
Morningside with a drama played in the shadow of a real-life
mercy-killing. Edited by Dave Carley, himself a playwright and
senior script editor for CBC Radio Performance, the collection also
contains Lorre Jensen's The Mercy Quilt; Judith
Thompson's Stop Talking Like That; George F. Walker's
How To Make Love To An Actor; and Crackpot, Rachel
Wyatt's dramatization of Adele Wiseman's novel.
The Mercy Quilt by Lorre Jensen is a touchingly
humorous portrait of a quartet of elderly native women who must deal
with the memory lapses of one of their number – without causing her
to lose face. (First broadcast on Sunday Showcase in 1997;
Cast: 5 women, 3 men)
Mourning Dove by Emil Sher is a highly-acclaimed
drama based on the case of Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer
convicted of murdering his disabled daughter, and gives unprecedented
voice to the concerns of the disabled. (First broadcast on
Morningside in 1996; Cast: 6 women, 8 men)
In Stop Talking Like That, we fly from Thunder Bay to
Australia's Ayer's Rock at the drop of a sound cue, in a wild
outpouring from Judith Thompson's fantastic imagination.
(First broadcast on Monday Night Playhouse in 1995; Cast: 6
women, 7 men)
George F. Walker targets actors and film producers with his
snappy satirical lines in How to Make Love to an Actor, his
first play for radio. The play revolves around two actors Jess and
Sandy, and their acting teacher Willie. Jess works in theatre and is
very serious about her art, whereas Sandy just wants to get paid.
Jess' ideals rub off on Sandy and the two refuse to audition for a B
movie role as a prostitute who is a victim of a serial killer. Then
they find out that their teacher Willie is considering auditioning
for the role of the serial killer. How to Make Love to an Actor
is a wicked and very telling take on the big egos lurking behind the
big screen. (First broadcast on Sunday Showcase in 1995; Cast:
2 women, 2 men)
And Rachel Wyatt dramatizes a much-loved Canadian novel,
Crackpot by Adele Wiseman, the story of a Winnipeg
prostitute with a heart the size of the Prairies. (First broadcast on
Stereodrama in 1994; Cast: 5 women, 8 men)
About the Editor:
Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright. He has written for
stage, radio and television. His plays have had close to 500
productions, and have been produced across Canada and the United
States, and in many countries around the world. His plays have won,
or been nominated for, a number of awards, including the Governor
General's Award, The Chalmers Award, The Dora Award, The Arthur
Miller Award (University of Michigan) and the New York International
Radio Festival Award.
|
|
|
|