| The season kicks off Tuesday
3rd. October with Liam Heffernan in ‘Seany Boy’ a bittersweet
cowboy tale set in West Cork and ends four dramas later on Tuesday October
31st. with a HALLOWEEN SPECIAL featuring Grammy nominee Phil
Proctor of RUGRATS in ‘Marinette 1.1’ - a tale of voodoo and vengeance.
AUDIO GOTHIC
is written, directed and produced by Roger Gregg, short-listed for this
year’s Prix Europa Radio Drama Award and recently hailed by BBC Radio
4’s ‘A World In Your Ear’ as “one of a handful of
truly great radio dramatists”.
Listen in and find out why THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE says “Crazy Dog Audio
Theatre are largely responsible for rescuing Irish radio drama from
the doldrums…”
AUDIO GOTHIC - RTE RADIO 1 Tuesday evenings
in October at 8:00 pm.
Tuesday 3 October
SEANY BOY
Unable to deal with his grief, Seany Boy, an elderly Cork farmer, has retreated into
his fantasy of being a gun toting, singing cowboy of the Old West.
Seany is dismissed as a colourful eccentric until he draws a gun to
intervene in a racist attack on an asylum seeker and the consequences
rapidly spiral out of control. Liam Heffernan stars
in this modern tale of the West.
SEANY BOY CAST
Written, Directed & Produced by Roger Gregg
Featuring:
Liam Heffernan – Seany Boy Murphy, Guitar. Inspector Sutton.
Shadaan Felfeli - Ta’nuge the Indian. Hindi translation
David Murray - Conor the Guard. Local thug.
Aidan Vaughan – Malachy the Guard. Local thug.
Sarah Greene - Sarah Murphy
Roger Gregg - Narrator. Slide Guitar, Keyboards.
Music composed and arranged by Roger Gregg.
Tuesday 10 October
BRAD’S BOOK OF LIES
Following a nervous breakdown, the world’s greatest marketing
guru awakens to the fact that the only truth he’s ever known is
how to best tell lies. He resolves to become a new person but soon discovers
that the world around him will not let his old self die. Simon O’Gorman
stars in this dark comedy.
BRAD’S BOOK OF LIES CAST
Written, directed & produced by Roger Gregg
Featuring:
Simon O’Gorman – Brad.
Remi Petrill Clarke - Mad woman, Ad voice.
Morgan Jones - Jaye, Barnum. Lead singer.
Emer O’Grady – Niccola, Ad voice.
Deirdre Molloy - Doctor. Ad voice.
Music composed and arranged by Roger Gregg.
Tuesday 17 October
MARY MAGUIRE SURROUNDED BY LOVED ONES
A moving portrait of a lonely Dublin woman spending a day reunited
with her long-lost nearest and dearest. Karen Ardiff stars as Mary Maguire
in this tale of loss and love.
MARY MAGUIRE SURROUNDED BY LOVED ONES CAST
Written, Directed & Produced by Roger Gregg
Featuring:
Karen Ardiff: Mary Maguire
Deirdre Molloy: Maggie
Paul B. Lennox: Blackie
Morgan Jones: Jack, Timothy
David Murray: Thomas
Grainne O’Carroll & Fiadh Gregg: mocking girls
Music composed and arranged by Roger Gregg.
Cello played by Emer Forristal O’Grady
Tuesday 24 October
MARSYAS: THE HIPPEST SATYR
A modern jazz retelling of the Greek myth of Marsyas, a humble satyr
who comes under the spell of a cursed magical horn. Leading Irish guitarist
Giordai Ua Laoghaire is the featured musician in this comic musical
fable of pride and self-delusion.
MARSYAS CAST:
Roger Gregg: Narrator. Chorus. Keyboards, Ebow guitar, synthesizer.
Sound effects.
Morgan Jones: Marsyas
David Murray: Apollo
Eimear Forristal O’Grady - Athene. Raven. Chorus. Cello.
Giordai Ua Laoghaire - guitar. Midi programming.
Peter O’Kennedy – drums.
Tuesday 31 October.
MARINETTE 1.1.
A special Halloween tale of voodoo and vengence. A maladjusted computer
expert comes to believe he’s being guided by a vengeful voodoo
spirit named Marinette. Phil Proctor of RUGRATS stars in this voodoo
tale for Halloween.
MARINETTE 1.1. CAST.
Written, directed & produced by Roger Gregg
Featuring:
Phil Proctor: Charlie
Melinda Peterson: Marinette.
Deirdre Molloy: Suzanne
Anthony Brophy: Brendan
Remi Petrill Clarke: Rachel
Music composed and arranged by Roger Gregg.
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