Shortwave Theatre Festival

Shortwave Theatre Festival Mariah Horner hosted a series of artist talkbacks for each of the Festival’s radio theatre performances. In this talkback series episode, Horner chats with some of the artists who made The Soundcastle possible including Becky Bridger (Director), Jeremy Kerr (Sound Designer), and Sarah Emtage (the Playwright). —– Each of Shortwave Theatre Festival’...

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it – where does the sound go? On November 1 2020 at 1:30 PM, CFRC radio listeners found out where the sound goes in this super sweet family friendly radio play The Sound Castle.  Sarah Emtage’s new radio play was the first play to air in CFRC 101.9 FM and Cellar Door Project’s Shortwave Theatre Festival. The Soundcastle is podcasted here f...

Mariah Horner (Festival Director) and Dinah Jansen (Executive Director) sat down for a live studio chat to launch Shortwave Theatre Festival in Kingston on November 1st 2020 at 11 am, an hour of chat followed by a one-hour live studio performance with Kingston’s Savage Family Band featuring Tom and Bella Savage and Bonz Bowering. Stay tuned-podcast versions of Shortwave plays and artist talk...

Kingston’s campus/community radio station takes on the Orson Welles classic! Narrated by Principal Daniel Woolf, and with a cast of dozens, this is a new spin on an old classic with a contemporary radio twist. Originally aired on CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston, Ontario on October 30, 2018. Locally reimagined, this radio theatre performance was adapted and directed by Ben Charland, produced by Mik...