Shortwave Theatre Festival
Shortwave Theatre Festival is a series of original radio theatre performances written, directed, performed, and produced by local artists in Kingston, Ontario. It first broadcasted on CFRC’s airwaves the week of November 1st-7th 2020. Funded by the City of Kingston Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council, the Festival also enjoys support from the Dan School of Drama and Music and the Robert H. Black Fund from the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University. Learn more about the Festival and the artists at shortwavetheatre.com.
Episodes
In the Case of the Elusive Umbrella, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a mystery that defies reason. A man has vanished from his own doorstep, leaving only a tail of contradictions behind him.
This performance featured: Ashley as Sherlock Holmes Cole as Dr. John Watson Brayden as Inspector Lestrade Daniel as Captain Stanley Rush Leon as Nathan Black Declan as Taylor Professor Daniel Woolf as the Narrator Lauren as Isabe...
CFRC 101.9 FM hosted youth ages 12-16 this summer at the station during the first ever Shortwave Radio Theatre Camps! Campers attended our weekly sessions, learned radio production skills and participated in the creation of radio theatre plays for broadcast on August 20, 2023. CFRC’s camps were generously supported by the Kingston Arts Council and also the Dan School of Drama and Music.
Step into a world of mystery and exploratio...
CFRC 101.9 FM hosted youth ages 12-16 this summer at the station during the first ever Shortwave Radio Theatre Camps! Campers attended our weekly sessions, learned radio production skills and participated in the creation of radio theatre plays for broadcast on August 20, 2023. CFRC’s camps were generously supported by the Kingston Arts Council and also the Dan School of Drama and Music.
In a future world humanity’s creation...
CFRC 101.9 FM hosted youth ages 12-16 this summer at the station during the first ever Shortwave Radio Theatre Camps! Campers attended our weekly sessions, learned radio production skills and participated in the creation of radio theatre plays for broadcast on August 20, 2023. CFRC’s camps were generously supported by the Kingston Arts Council and also the Dan School of Drama and Music.
In this podcast, listeners can embark...
Shortwave Theatre Festival Executive Producer Dinah Jansen and Festival Director Mariah Horner sit down to chat about the art of theatre, making radio theatre and Horner’s long career and current doctoral research in the theatrical craft.
In this episode, host Chris Lawrie chats with Suzanne Hersh and Mark Cassidy of Threshold Theatre, the duo who wrote and performed Late Nights with Mark the C live in CFRC’s studios on November 5th 2022, about their process.
Shortwave Theatre Festival 2022 was made possible through the generous support of the City of Kingston Arts Fund, the Dan School of Drama and Music and the Robert H. Black Residency Program.
“People ask, sometimes, how is it possible to try to have a moment of respite, a moment of music, in the middle of chaos. But isn’t this planet itself a spinning ball of respite & music, racing from nowhere to nowhere through the chaos?”
Ilya Kaminsky Late Nights with Mark the C. is a follow up to Mark Cassidy’s acclaimed autobiographical piece Allistonian Brockvillian Dionysian which was presented most recently at ...
Shortwave Theatre Festival Director Mariah Horner chats with local artist Anne Marie Mortenson of local theatre company Bottle Tree Productions. Learn more about making theatre with these two amazing practitioners as they talk shop
In this Shortwave Theatre Festival presentation, Festival Director Mariah Horner chats with a couple of the artists who made Sarah Emtage’s Jabberwocky & The Listeners come to life on our airwaves: Becky Bridger and Billie Kearns!
Two cousins named Magellan and Gadget are trapped in the labyrinth-like Sound Castle where every sound made in the world above is stored in boxes below. They are looking for a way out and also hoping to find the unheard final words of Magellan’s sister. The story continues in two parts. First in “The Jabberwocky” Magellan and Gadget are alarmed to find that they are not quite alone in the dark, and in “The Listeners” they start to ...
In this Shortwave Theatre Festival, Chris Lawrie chats with Shannon Kingston, James Hyatt, Fiona Beech, Lynus Ethier, Kemi King and Uri Livne-Bar, the artists behind the play Garden of Edith.
This artist talkback is part of the Shortwave Theatre Festival funded by the City of Kingston Arts Fund.
It’s a regular neighbourhood, with regular bungalows, a library, and a field– and maybe a little magic. While exploring one day, Edith finds several dozen gnomes living in a secret garden behind her late grandfather’s house. Meanwhile, Edith’s genderfluid Uncle Arnold has returned to the home to prepare it for sale. Together, Edith, Arnold, and the gnomes learn to see their home, their family, and their future in a whole new way. G...
Listen ‘Round a Fire is a radio theatre piece written, directed, and sound designed by recent Queen’s graduate Sam Kaiser for his graduating Special Studies Project. The piece follows three heroes, cowboys of sorts, in an unfamiliar world who come across a capsule containing mysterious audio logs. When they play these audio logs, they find sound collages, reflections of things and events that may be more familiar to t...
Enjoy a conversation with the artists who made Half Past Lunchtime possible! Shortwave Theatre Festival Director Mariah Horner chats with actors Billie Hearns, Elizabeth Taylor, Shannon Kingston alongside playwright Haley Sarfeld and director Anthony Mann.
A feline flâneur wanders the sidewalks, gardens, and – to the chagrin of some – open windows of a downtown neighbourhood on a Sunday afternoon. Along the way, he meets a forager, a flirt, a fatigued full-time worker, a grossed-out gardener, a concussed daydreamer, a robin, a widow, and dozens of cucumber beetles. Will he make it home in time for dinner? Will the humans who cross his path make it through the day without losing their...
Psychological Dangers in Participatory Theatre by Hailey Scott is a documentary research project created during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Stemming from a formative experience at the infamous Sleep No More, Hailey’s research is grounded in how audiences engage with the dangers hidden behind the curtain and how artists can make theatre a compelling and safe experience for their patrons. In this documentary, Scott explores w...
Dan and Tama spend some time together in this special program taking on Rocky Horror Picture Show with queer, trans and feminist deconstructions of this cult classic.
Join us for another talkback with host Mariah Horner. In this episode, Horner talks to some of the artists who made the Shortwave Theatre Festival performance A Strong Girl possible. Tune in for a chat with playwright Rysia Andrade, Director Maddy Scovil, and Sound Designer Ensor Moriarty.
Shortwave’s radio theatre performances were made possible through the generous support of the City of Kingston Arts Council, Ontario Arts Counc...
When bones are discovered just underfoot along Princess St., we are reminded that Kingston’s tragedies and ghosts are always more complex (and more gay) than they seem. Rysia Andrade’s A Strong Girl introduces us to Margie, your classic Victorian baby-gay, as she deals with love, sex, anxiety and laundry, living through her brief but intense romance with the alluring military wife down the street.
A Strong Girl, aired on November...
Join us in this episode hosted by guest, Jill Glatt. Jill talks to the folks who made Shortwave Theatre Festival’s radio theatre LIVE performance of Talk to Me possible. Listen in as Jill gets all the details from Mariah Horner, Sean Meldrum and Wallis Caldoza.
This and other performances were made possible through the generous support of the City of Kingston Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, The Dan School of Drama and M...
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