Fast-paced radio drama, suitable for stage production. The conspiracy of the German drug manufacturers and the FDA unfolds like a murder mystery, as Dr. Frances Kelsey, suspecting birth defects,... More > stalls for time against mounting pressures to license sale of “the sleeping pill of the century.”< Less
Fast-paced radio drama, suitable for stage production. The conspiracy of the German drug manufacturers and the FDA unfolds like a murder mystery, as Dr. Frances Kelsey, suspecting birth defects,... More > stalls for time against mounting pressures to license sale of “the sleeping pill of the century.”< Less
Fast-paced radio drama, suitable for stage production. The conspiracy of the German drug manufacturers and the FDA unfolds like a murder mystery, as Dr. Frances Kelsey, suspecting birth defects,... More > stalls for time against mounting pressures to license sale of "the sleeping pill of the century."< Less
The use of "drama" in the narrow sense to designate a specific type of play dates from the 19th century. Drama in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a... More > tragedy—for example, Zola's Thérèse Raquin (1873) or Chekhov's Ivanov (1887). It is this narrow sense that the film and television industry and film studies adopted to describe "drama" as a genre within their respective media. "Radio drama" has been used in both senses—originally transmitted in a live performance, it has also been used to describe the more high-brow and serious end of the dramatic output of radio.< Less
A throw-back to golden age radio, but oh-so politically incorrect, Joe Doran’s The Specter has won fans wherever it plays. Get ready for chills and laughs as Jack Tollman and company hold the... More > line on evil, and try even harder to avoid being on the wrong end of a riposte...
Originally produced by High Window Radio Theatre, The Specter radio plays have been performed by theatre groups across the US. The show has aired via Western Public Radio, and was featured at the TheatreBC Mainstage 2005 Festival in Nanaimo, Canada.< Less
A throw-back to golden age radio, but oh-so politically incorrect, Joe Doran’s The Specter has won fans wherever it plays. Get ready for chills and laughs as Jack Tollman and company hold the... More > line on evil, and try even harder to avoid being on the wrong end of a riposte...
Originally produced by High Window Radio Theatre, The Specter radio plays have been performed by theatre groups across the US. The show has aired via Western Public Radio, and was featured at the TheatreBC Mainstage 2005 Festival in Nanaimo, Canada.< Less
Starting with Pals, the first play in this collection, the author demonstrates a flair for the bizarre. In Simply Simon he forces the reader to suspend his disbelief, for all the cows in the village... More > have “forgotten” how to flick their tails. Several of the plays have the Holocaust as a background, and even here Kaufman introduces personages who have a sense of humor. They all need help to make a life for themselves in the tense world we live in. Many characters and plots are reminiscent of personal experiences, although the author insists they are, to a great extent, fictitious. In Lucky To Be Here, he tells of a young boy’s impressions in a midsize American city during the years of World War II—largely an account of his own growing-up as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Lifelines also has its roots in the old world. In IS 200, Kaufman comes to terms with the devastating experience of surviving a stroke. All in all, the reader will not be bored!< Less
