RADIOLAND ’48
It’s 1948 and a radio station is about to be closed forever. The four employees desperately try to save their beloved studio – and their jobs.
This one-act play is a snappy farce with a dash of romance ~ an homage to screwball comedies.
Written by Kirsten Van Ritzen
~ staged production filmed for Youtube by Deep Cove Theatre Society directed by Tracy Labrosse (June 2021)
~ staged reading for Emerging Voices. Dramaturgy/direction by Nicolle Nattrass for Theatre One at the Port Theatre, Nanaimo (Feb. 11, 2020)
~ workshop/staged reading Suncor Festival of New Works. Dramaturgy by Karen Johnson-Diamond for Lunch Box Theatre, Calgary (June 2017)
~ staged reading at Readers' Theatre Festival * at Langham Court. Directed by Ian Ferguson with Robert Conway, Melissa Taylor, Chase Hiebert, Kirsten Van Ritzen, Mur Meadows, narration by Charles Martin (May 2017)
~ staged reading at Culture Days, Victoria. Directed by Ian Ferguson with Robert Conway, Kirsten Van Ritzen, Daniel Demiers, Melissa Taylor. (Oct. 2019 - cast photo below)
*Acknowledging support from the Playwrights Guild of Canada
It’s 1948 and a radio station is about to be closed forever. The four employees desperately try to save their beloved studio – and their jobs.
This one-act play is a snappy farce with a dash of romance ~ an homage to screwball comedies.
Written by Kirsten Van Ritzen
~ staged production filmed for Youtube by Deep Cove Theatre Society directed by Tracy Labrosse (June 2021)
~ staged reading for Emerging Voices. Dramaturgy/direction by Nicolle Nattrass for Theatre One at the Port Theatre, Nanaimo (Feb. 11, 2020)
~ workshop/staged reading Suncor Festival of New Works. Dramaturgy by Karen Johnson-Diamond for Lunch Box Theatre, Calgary (June 2017)
~ staged reading at Readers' Theatre Festival * at Langham Court. Directed by Ian Ferguson with Robert Conway, Melissa Taylor, Chase Hiebert, Kirsten Van Ritzen, Mur Meadows, narration by Charles Martin (May 2017)
~ staged reading at Culture Days, Victoria. Directed by Ian Ferguson with Robert Conway, Kirsten Van Ritzen, Daniel Demiers, Melissa Taylor. (Oct. 2019 - cast photo below)
*Acknowledging support from the Playwrights Guild of Canada
