Category: Shortwave Theatre Festival

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.