A Season of Dark Portraits In Sound

5 New Radio Dramas

Written, Directed & Produced by Roger Gregg.

Tuesday evenings in October at 8:00 pm. RTÉ Radio 1

Ireland’s award-winning Crazy Dog Audio Theatre returns to RTÉ Radio 1 this October with AUDIO GOTHIC - a season of five new radio plays.

 

The plays of Audio Gothic vary in style from vicious social satire to intimate character study and feature original cinematic music scores, location recordings, state-of-the-art sound design and some of the very best Irish and international voice talents, including Karen Ardiff, Liam Heffernan, Simon O’Gorman, Deirdre Molloy, David Murray and Morgan Jones.

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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