<p>The award-winning and critically acclaimed Wireless Theatre Company strives to keep radio theater alive and well. From the hilarious to the terrifying this diverse collection features ten Wireless Theatre productions in a single volume:</p><p><i><b>We Are the BBC</b></i> by Susan Casanove directed by Jack Bowman</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'>Rob Sterling Davies is on the crest of a wave: a celebrated scriptwriter actor television personality the new doyen of Just a Minute and apparently Stephen Fry’s new best friend. But all isn’t quite as it seems and when Stephen discovers that Rob’s BAFTA-winning script was stolen he undertakes to expose Rob for the fraud he is.</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'></p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'><i>We Are the BBC</i> is the follow-up to the hugely popular 2011 hit <i>We Are Not the BBC</i> and features Nicholas Parsons and Stephen Fry as themselves.</p><p><i><b>We Are Not the BBC</b></i> by Susan Casanove directed by Jack Bowman</p><p>A light-hearted look at the radio drama production process as seen by the members of an amateur dramatics society in a sleepy suburb of Swansea</p><p>It can’t be difficult to make your own play for radio can’t it? And with a LAMDA-trained professional actor at the helm surely nothing could go wrong? After their attempt at Mike Leigh-inspired improvisation doesn’t exactly produce satisfactory results things start to look up when a visiting celebrity agrees to step in and play the lead role.</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'></p><p><i><b>No Cause for Alarm</b> </i>by Gareth Rubin</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'><i>No Cause for Alarm</i> is a silly play.</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'></p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'>It has no comment to make about the human condition love in the twenty-first century or the Iraq war.</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'></p><p><b style='font-style: italic;'>Stage Fright</b> by Lynn Howes directed by Emma Taylor</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'>A savagely funny satire on celebrity and theater that garnered five-star reviews at its world premiere <i>Stage Fright</i> charts the struggle for supremacy between three actors appearing in a play together: old friends Peter and Charles and Geraldine the young and vulnerable actress they have befriended.</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'></p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'>As opening night approaches it becomes apparent that Geraldine is not who she appears to be and the friends must fight to salvage their pride their identity and their reputations in this thought-provoking tragicomedy.</p><p><i><b>The Mighty Carlins</b> </i>by Collin Doyle directed by Paul Blinkhorn</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'>On the anniversary of his wife’s death Leo Carlin and his two sons come together for their traditional night of sharing the good and not so good memories of the dearly departed Mrs. Carlin. Beers are drunk. Plans are hatched. Secrets are revealed.</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'></p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'><i>The Mighty Carlins</i> is a black comedy that celebrates a family at its worst.</p><p><i><b>Blood and Stone</b> </i>by Marty Ross directed by Mariele Runacre Temple</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'>Based on the true story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory perhaps one of the greatest mass murderers of all time a woman who tortured and killed over 600 young women for their blood</p><p style='margin-left: 20px;'></p><p style='m
Title | The Wireless Theatre Collection Vol. 2 |
Author | The Wireless Theatre Company ; Susan Casanove; Lester Barry |
Narrator | Full Cast |
Media | Audiobooks |
Genre | General Fiction |
ISBN | 9781504757966 |
Published | 2016-08-09 |
Stock | In stock |
Duration | 9 hours 55 minutes |