So, why would a bunch of audio producers, most of whom have never met each other, team up for such a massive collaboration?
Well, because the locations of our groups looks something like this:
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We’re here to demonstrate that audio drama is a living, vital medium with a lot to offer modern audiences. These are not hokey “olde tyme” performers but contemporary artists choosing the medium of audio because it best suits their artistic endeavors.
Halloween is always a special occasion for audio theater. People seem more open minded about listening to audio again in the month where Orson Welles caused his legendary mischief and tales of goblins, spooks, and werewolves abound.
So it’s only natural that we cash in on this deeply rooted part of the human consciousness and tickle your brain for Halloween.
Stephen King said it pretty well:
“Nothing is so frightening as what’s behind the closed door. The audience holds its breath along with the protagonist as she/he (more often she) approaches that door. The protagonist throws it open, and there is a ten-foot-tall bug. The audience screams, but this particular scream has an oddly relieved sound to it. ‘A bug ten feet tall is pretty horrible’, the audience thinks, ‘but I can deal with a ten-foot-tall bug. I was afraid it might be a hundred feet tall’. [...]
“The exciting thing about radio at its best was that it bypassed the whole question of whether to open the door or leave it closed. Radio, by the very nature of the medium, was exempt. For the listeners during the years 1930 to 1950 or so, there were no visual expectations to fulfill in their set of reality.”
And so, we bring you back to that joyous, terrible place. Where your imagination has free reign to create monsters that can fit the biggest screen of all — your mind.