Category: Shortwave Theatre Festival

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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” […]

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.