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Spontoon Island 1937 replica radio show - Sunday evening
12 years ago
"Rosie's Place: It's Shot From Guns!" is a replica of a 1937 comedy radio show, written by EOCostello. It has been produced by Jerry Stearns, and performed by the staff of KFAI community radio in Minneapolis. http://kfai.org/
It is done in the style of an old-time radio comedy show, set on a Pacific Island in a world of anthro/toons, and features the very 'unique' staff and customers at a neighborhood restaurant.
It will be broadcast at 9:30 pm CST(Central Standard Time) Sunday evening 24 February, 2013, on KFAI radio - which also live-streams the broadcast on their website. "Rosie's Place: It's Shot From Guns" will be on the KFAI show, "Sound Affects: A Radio Playground". Two hours after the broadcast, the Sound Affects show will be up on KFAI's archive page, available for live streaming for the next two weeks.
(A previous Sound Affects show on 2/17/2013 has archived "Headline Chaser: If You Can't Stand the Heat", a hard-boiled anthro/toon reporter story.)
More info will be on the Spontoon Island Radio webpage:
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRdoCn.html
It is done in the style of an old-time radio comedy show, set on a Pacific Island in a world of anthro/toons, and features the very 'unique' staff and customers at a neighborhood restaurant.
It will be broadcast at 9:30 pm CST(Central Standard Time) Sunday evening 24 February, 2013, on KFAI radio - which also live-streams the broadcast on their website. "Rosie's Place: It's Shot From Guns" will be on the KFAI show, "Sound Affects: A Radio Playground". Two hours after the broadcast, the Sound Affects show will be up on KFAI's archive page, available for live streaming for the next two weeks.
(A previous Sound Affects show on 2/17/2013 has archived "Headline Chaser: If You Can't Stand the Heat", a hard-boiled anthro/toon reporter story.)
More info will be on the Spontoon Island Radio webpage:
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRdoCn.html
Costello's plot & dialogue writing were excellent; the acting was stalwart (though the Spontoon natives' delivery was rather flat.) My biggest criticism is purely conceptual: The audio presentation points up the fact that furries don't work very well in non-visual media. Every time the word "fur" was used to refer to a person, I went because I could not stop picturing the characters as human actors in a black & white movie. Aside from a superficial insistence that the characters were "funny animals" there was no reason for them not to be human. It was really dissociative/jarring to me. I have the same problem when reading text stories (to the point that I just don't read "furry" fiction anymore). When the audience can't SEE the characters, extra effort has to be put into establishing the conceit that they are anthropomorphic animals. More description and/or explanation is needed to get the radio listener to buy into most of the tropes that we take for granted when it's a cartoon.
I will have to keep this in mind when and if I ever get around to making an audioplay...
I suppose this may all be pay-back for us humans acting out animal stories back in the old caves.
It is a new and interesting development that now we have so many new anthropomorphic furry stories, that have evolved into science fiction, with the animal appearances, costume, and actions of the characters all rationalized.
Cool beans!