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Episodic Series
French Quarter | The Children's Zoo
Boudica | Mitch in the Morning | She-Who-Is-Made-Of-Clay | The Session | Roads Not Taken
| OUR SIGNATURE SERIES! AS HEARD ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO - TWICE! | |||
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“This is New Orleans, my home...Start by forgetting everything you've heard about this city because...we've got a reputation and not all of it is earned. There are so many people here, creating tomorrow's folktales day after day” |
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| REVIEWS, AWARDS AND MORE NOW READ THIS! "The Making of French Quarter: A Labor of Love on Location" by Joel Pierson WINNER: Best Multicast Audio of the Year (Audio World) WINNER: Communicator Crystal Award of Excellence NATIONAL FINALIST: Silver Microphone Award, Best Entertainment Program |
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| by Joel Pierson and Dana Dyer Pierson 13 30-minute episodes 7 Hours on 7 CDs Includes full-color booklet, cast bios, musician bios, production notes, outtakes, and additional music. SPECIAL FUNDRAISER FOR THE SURVIVORS OF HURRICANE KATRINA through December 31, 2005 $44.95 includes FREE shipping, FREE gift wrap, and a permanent listing on our Angel's of Katrina Gallery Page -- and a $25 donation to the Red Cross. |
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Told in thirteen half-hour episodes, French Quarter brings you seven hours of the best contemporary audio theatre available today. This set, presented on seven compact disks, also features a collection of outtakes, a message from the director, and a selection of some of the original music. Featuring a cast of fifty professional actors, including the legendary David Ossman of the Firesign Theatre, this fully-dramatized audio theatre series takes you on a rich journey as you meet some of the most interesting people the Quarter has to offer! Take a vicarious trip to the bayou today. |
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| THE CHILDREN'S ZOO -- available on CD or as MP3 | |||
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Based on actual events, The Children's Zoo takes audiences inside the world of adolescent psychiatric medicine in a Chicago hospital. |
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| by Joel Pierson 13 30-minute episodes 7 Hours on 7 CDs or 1 MP3 CD TWO FORMAT OPTIONS: AVAILABLE ON EITHER 7 CDS (in library pack shown to left) CDs OR as a single MP3CD |
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A Story About Seven Teenagers. Seven young patients are committed to the care of the finest doctors in the state. They arrive with a variety of troubles and challenges: eating disorders, depression, substance abuse, violent behavior, running away, schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder. Through intensive one-on-one therapy, these patients struggle to work through their problems and return to the families who cared enough to get them help. Initially resistant-they give the ward its unflattering nickname-the patients soon learn that the doctors are truly on their side. |
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EDUCATORS: Are you interested in sharing The Children's Zoo with your students? Performance scripts and rights are available for any group interested in bringing this interactive, educational, and medically-accurate series to your school or facility. Please email Joel Pierson (author of The Children's Zoo and Artistic Director of Mind's Ear) to learn more, or click here.. |
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| BOUDICA (Featured on The Best of IATSC: Volume 1) | |||
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We are honored to present the tale of Boudica (also known as Boudicea), an ancient Iceni Queen who battled the invading Roman Empire, for our listeners. |
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| REVIEWS, AWARDS AND MORE GRAND PRIZE WINNER: First Annual International Audio + Theatre Script Competition learn more by Lisa Humbertson |
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| 30-minute audio play (part of an anthology collection) 1 Hour on 1 CD |
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by Lisa Humbertson Lisa Humberson's breath-takingly eloquent and powerful historical drama Boudica is a true standout in contemporary audio theatre scriptwriting vision and technique. Take the story of one of history's most powerful (yet mostly unknown) female warrior queens, and spin it through the considerable talents of an unbelievably talented contemporary female playwright. Her use of language amazed us. Her use of sound as a living, breathing character awed us. You will be moved, enlightened, enraged, and humbled by the power of this story. Hers is a timeless tale of dignity and honor. “Boudica” will shock you with the sheer power of words and sounds. Available on The Best of IATSC: Volume 1 CD (with First Place Winner, The Unraveling, by Kevin James Miller). |
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| MITCH IN THE MORNING (Featured on The Best of Mind's Ear LIVE: Volume 1) | |||
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A "morning zoo" DJ, paying a visit to a small community station, opens up the phone lines to locals -- and gets more than he bargained for when a desperate woman calls in. |
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| REVIEWS, AWARDS AND MORE "Didn't you people learn ANYTHING from War of the Worlds!" -- confused radio audience member who was convinced this was reality, broadcast live. learn more by Joel Pierson |
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Presented live on the air, this "audio verite'" production really ruffled some feathers in Bloomington last spring. The situation spins out of control, taking the audience on a wild theatrical ride -- presented as reality to unsuspecting radio listeners. |
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| THE SESSION - COMING CHRISTMAS 2004! | |||
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Dr. Lily Havens has a reputation for being the only one who can reach the most dangerous predators: child murderers, serial killers, rapist, sociopaths. It is this reputation that draws a deeply troubled young man to her office on Halloween... |
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| REVIEWS, AWARDS AND MORE "One of the most exciting and gripping theatrical experiences I have ever had! This astonishing play, created by Jay Bonansinga, a modern master of horror, and grounded with two amazing performances, chilled me to the bone." - Indiana Daily Student by Jay Bonansinga Jay's website |
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Jay Bonansinga's gripping tale shocked audiences when it was presented on stage in Bloomington, Indiana over the Halloween season of 2003. We've coaxed the original cast into our studio for a faithful audio adaptation of this critically-acclaimed play. Dr. Havens learns more about her young patient than she could have ever suspected, and in that epiphany is the seed of tragedy. It's all about control, power, and how each person defines "evil". |
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| ROADS NOT TAKEN- COMING SOON! | |||
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What would you do if you woke up one morning, and you were ten years into your own past? Would you try to return to the life you left, or would you stay in the past, and correct the mistakes of your life? |
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Kevin Greene's life was finally in order. He had a loving wife, a stable
home,
and a successful career as a screenwriter, all by the age of 35. But
nothing
could prepare him for the surprise he received one August morning, when--
without warning--he woke up ten years into his own past. Now, 2,000 miles
and ten years away from the life he knows, he needs to find allies in
returning
him to his own place and time. With the help of his friends, Chris and
Cheryl,
Kevin searches deep in his own mind for a way back. But the clock is
ticking.
Each day he spends in his own past, he forgets a little more of the life he
left.
Can he get home before he forgets his future completely? |
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| SHE-WHO-IS-MADE-OF-CLAY - COMING SOON! | |||
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She-Who-Is-Made-Of-Clay, the last of the California Yokuts Indians, performs the Rites of the Dead for his/her people. S/he is a berdache, a third gender, what modern people might call a transvestite. |
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| REVIEWS, AWARDS AND MORE WINNER First Place, Second Annual International Audio + Theatre Script Competition by Simon Levy |
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In the Yokut culture, s/he is a revered shaman who straddles the world between man and woman. Only he can bury the dead of her people; and on this, his last day, she prepares to saves the souls of her people by summoning the Great Rattlesnake God who will will take them -- and her -- to Tihpiknits Pahn, or heaven. This is her story, and journey, from small boy to berdache, from shaman to savior. An epic adventure of an astonisingly unique individual and a People who are no more. Available on The Best of IATSC: Volume 2 CD (with First Place Winner, The Valhalla Triangle, (Episode One) by David Gasking). |
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