If it isn’t blatantly apparent already… There are no rehearsals involved in these podcasts. My friends who volunteer (ok, are drafted typically) just don’t have the time, and I just don’t have the money to pay them to make that time. They are too busy being financial consultants, school teachers, computer techs, and book editors, who are trying to have actual lives.
Now, I think with a couple of my friends we did have one readthrough of some portions of the podcast story Left Field, but even that’s probably playing fast and loose with the word’s definition. So, we do the best we can, since we are all good-hearted amateurs. And while we might not all have the enthusiasm of, say, Bottom of Shakespearean fame—despite being almost as tragically talented—we all try our best, given the vast acting experience none of us has.
In counterpoint to this, the local theater actors who performed the fourth story, Goodbye Cruel World, did do one readthrough before we recorded—so that, and their immense talent, helped immeasurably with those podcasts. But only those.
So there you go… How NOT to run what is essentially a radio theater group.
Orson Welles would have my hide…
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The Theater of the Midnight Sun
www.theaterofthemidnightsun.com
