A New
Theater
of Sound
AUDIO THEATER
photo by Ania Mianowska
"...There are useful lessons to learn from classical audio theater. Yet, we cannot make old time radio drama anymore and expect to engage audiences in the 21st century. We must experiment with new tools, new theatrical devices, new ways of looking at narrative to bring this new theater of sound to the fore. If radio drama arose from an early 20th century technology, then A New Theater of Sound should utilize 21st century invention. This new theater of sound must tell stories, for in the end storytelling is at the heart of theater. And it must compel an audience to think and to feel something. But remember—sound is at the heart of this theater . . . We must explore and define the boundaries and rules of this medium, and then be courageous in hammering at those boundaries and breaking those rules to create a vital and new theatrical horizon."
from the essay A New Theater of Sound, by Arthur Yorinks
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photo by Ania Mianowska
Partial List of Works:
American Song audio play cycle
The World Is Round - (writer & director)
Dubliners: An Audio Play Suite, based on the work of James Joyce - (writer & director)
A Christmas Carol, based on the story by Charles Dickens - (writer & director)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston - (writer & audio director)
Garson Kanin's The Rat Race - (writer and director)
The Dissolution of Dominic Boot, by Tom Stoppard - (director)
The Portrait, based on the story by Gogol - (writer & director)
M is for Moon Among Other Things, by Tom Stoppard - (director)
Metamorphosis, based on the story by Kafka - (writer & director)
Artist Descending A Staircase, by Tom Stoppard - (director)
Where Are They Now?, by Tom Stoppard - (director)
Bleak House, based on the novel by Charles Dickens - (writer & director)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, based on the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson - (writer & director)
Lysistrata, based on the work by Aristophanes - (writer & director)
Sax From A Marriage - (writer & director)
Hello, God? - (writer & director)
The Elevator - (writer & director)
The Nose - (writer & director)
The Flying Latke - (writer & director)
Christmas in July - (writer & director)
Peter Rabbit, based on the stories by Beatrix Potter - (writer & director)
Peter Pan, based on the novel by J. M Barrie - (writer & director)
The Wizard of Oz, based on the book by L. Frank Baum - (writer & director)
Clever Bill, based on the book by William Nicholson - (writer & director)
Sherlock Holmes and The Golden Tooth, based on the characters by A. Conan Doyle - (writer & director)
Hansel & Gretel, based on the Grimm fairy tale - (writer & director)
The Fisherman and his Wife, based on the Grimm fairy tale - (writer & director)
The Emperor's New Clothes, based on the tale by H.C. Andersen - (writer & director)
Pinocchio, based on the book by Carlo Collodi - (writer & director)
On Rosie's Stoop, based on the works by Maurice Sendak - (writer & director)