Thu 9/11 @ 7:30PM
Radio on the Lake Theatre described itself as “Northeast Ohio’s only professional theater company exclusively dedicated to the audio arts.” In other words, as their name suggests, the work in the style of old pre-TV radio dramas where voices and sound effects told a story with the listener providing the visuals with their imagination.
RotL is now starting a new monthly series which will take place at Negative Space Gallery on the second floor of Asian Town Center in AsiaTown, where each month it will present a radio play live. To kick things off it will present is Destination Freedom: An Evening of African American Radio Plays. It features two scripts by African-American radio pioneer Richard Durham (1917-1984), who began his work in Chicago (where he spent most of his career) with the Illinois Writers’ Project in 1939. He created and produced a series called Destination Freedom from 1948-50, with nearly 100 episodes that told the stories of great Black Americans, including Sojourner Truth, Crispus Attucks, Jackie Robinson, Marian Anderson, W.E.B. Dubois, Richard Wright, Countee Cullen, Ida B. Wells and Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, among others, and their fights for freedom and racial justice.
Upcoming evenings will feature such classic scripts as War of the Worlds and A Tale of Two Cities. Get tickets here.
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