In the Case of the Elusive Umbrella, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a mystery that defies reason. A man has vanished from his own doorstep, leaving only a tail of contradictions behind him. This performance featured: Ashley as Sherlock Holmes Cole as Dr. John Watson Brayden as Inspector Lestrade Daniel as Captain […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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“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 […]
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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 🙂
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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!
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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” […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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A feline flâneur wanders the sidewalks, gardens, and – to the chagrin of some – open windows of a downtown neighbourhood on a Sunday afternoon. Along the way, he meets a forager, a flirt, a fatigued full-time worker, a grossed-out gardener, a concussed daydreamer, a robin, a widow, and dozens of cucumber beetles. Will he […]
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Psychological Dangers in Participatory Theatre by Hailey Scott is a documentary research project created during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Stemming from a formative experience at the infamous Sleep No More, Hailey’s research is grounded in how audiences engage with the dangers hidden behind the curtain and how artists can make theatre a compelling […]
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Dan and Tama spend some time together in this special program taking on Rocky Horror Picture Show with queer, trans and feminist deconstructions of this cult classic.
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Join us for another talkback with host Mariah Horner. In this episode, Horner talks to some of the artists who made the Shortwave Theatre Festival performance A Strong Girl possible. Tune in for a chat with playwright Rysia Andrade, Director Maddy Scovil, and Sound Designer Ensor Moriarty. Shortwave’s radio theatre performances were made possible through […]
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👩❤️👩 When bones are discovered just underfoot along Princess St., we are reminded that Kingston’s tragedies and ghosts are always more complex (and more gay) than they seem. Rysia Andrade’s A Strong Girl introduces us to Margie, your classic Victorian baby-gay, as she deals with love, sex, anxiety and laundry, living through her brief but […]
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Join us in this episode hosted by guest, Jill Glatt. Jill talks to the folks who made Shortwave Theatre Festival’s radio theatre LIVE performance of Talk to Me possible. Listen in as Jill gets all the details from Mariah Horner, Sean Meldrum and Wallis Caldoza. This and other performances were made possible through the generous […]
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🍑 Cellar Door Project was pretty hot and bothered to be bring their summer hit, Talk to Me by Sean Meldrum to CFRC’s airwaves during the Shortwave Theatre Festival! Part love story, part talk radio show, this radio theatre play first premiered at FOLDA in June 2020. Talk to Me, the only sex and dating […]
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In this episode, Shortwave Theatre Festival Director Mariah Horner chats with the artists involved in the creation of The Revolution Has Failed. In this talk, Horner sits down with playwright Rob Downes and the play’s Director, Liam Bidmead. This and other performances were made possible through the generous support of the City of Kingston Arts […]
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💥 The year is 2025, 4 years since Montreal was bombed & destroyed. Canada has changed dramatically. The freedoms & liberties we once held are gone. On Wednesday November 4th 2020 at 9PM, CFRC 101.9 FM broadcasted local playwright, Robert Downes’ cautionary tale, The Revolution Has Failed. This radio theatre drama was directed by Liam […]
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In this episode, Shortwave Theatre Festival Director Mariah Horner chats with the fun artists who made the Philip & Lucinda Radio Show radio performance possible! Join Mariah for a fun, lively conversation about the art of radio theatre-making with Director Anthony Mann, sound designer John Sanfilippo, and Philip & Lucinda’s playwrights and performers Myque France […]
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🎪 On Sunday November 1 2020 at 9PM, CFRC 101.9 FM premiered The Philip & Lucinda Radio Show. This fun radio theatre comedy performance was written and performed by Zita Nyarady and Myque Franz of Grand Salto Theatre. This lovely gem features playful, physical & thought provoking performances through theatre, circus, clown, mask & dance. Delivered […]
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Shortwave Theatre Festival Mariah Horner hosted a series of artist talkbacks for each of the Festival’s radio theatre performances. In this talkback series episode, Horner chats with some of the artists who made The Soundcastle possible including Becky Bridger (Director), Jeremy Kerr (Sound Designer), and Sarah Emtage (the Playwright). —– Each of Shortwave Theatre Festival’s […]
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🏰 If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it – where does the sound go? On November 1 2020 at 1:30 PM, CFRC radio listeners found out where the sound goes in this super sweet family friendly radio play The Sound Castle. Sarah Emtage’s new radio play was the first play […]
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Mariah Horner (Festival Director) and Dinah Jansen (Executive Director) sat down for a live studio chat to launch Shortwave Theatre Festival in Kingston on November 1st 2020 at 11 am, an hour of chat followed by a one-hour live studio performance with Kingston’s Savage Family Band featuring Tom and Bella Savage and Bonz Bowering. Stay […]
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Kingston’s campus/community radio station takes on the Orson Welles classic! Narrated by Principal Daniel Woolf, and with a cast of dozens, this is a new spin on an old classic with a contemporary radio twist. Originally aired on CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston, Ontario on October 30, 2018. Locally reimagined, this radio theatre performance was […]
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