The Post-Meridian Radio Players - Spring Sci-Fi Spectaculars

Metropolis

Jay — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 20:29:39 +0000

Extended online program
An extended online program with director’s and producer’s notes and cast and crew biographies is here.
Tickets:
Tickets are available from our Tickets page.
Merchandise: Metropolis merchandise is available from our Zazzle store.
Performances:
Four performances from April 20th to April 22d at Guild Church (formerly Boston Brunch Church), near Davis Square, Somerville.
Two performances on April 28th and 29th at Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown.

The Post-Meridian Radio Players are proud to present our original full-length adaptation of the science-fiction classic, Metropolis!

Based on the original novel by Thea von Harbou and the 1927 Fritz Lang film, Metropolis tells the story of a futuristic city harshly divided between the working class and the city élites. When the son of the city's Master Builder falls in love with a beautiful working-class prophet, a class war explodes into the streets, made all the worse by the inventor Rotwang’s plan to replace the working class with humanoid machines. Can Metropolis be saved before it burns to the ground?

Mare Freed, Naomi Hinchen, Jeremy Holstein, Brian Kjersten and Michael McAfee adapted the original novel by Thea von Harbou and her screenplay for the Fritz Lang film, and Jay Sekora will direct.

Performance Dates

Metropolis will be performed on the following dates:

Thursday, April 20, at 8pm at Guild Church (formerly Boston Brunch Church) near Davis Square, Somerville
Friday, April 21, at 8pm, at Guild Church near Davis Square, Somerville
Saturday, April 22, at 2pm (matinée!), at Guild Church near Davis Square, Somerville
This matinée performance is pay-what-you-can.
Saturday, April 22, at 8pm, at Guild Church near Davis Square, Somerville
Friday, April 28, at 7:30pm, at Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown
Saturday, April 29, at 7:30pm, at Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown

Note that the Watertown shows start at 7:30, while the Davis Square shows start at 8:00 (except for the 2:00 matinée).

Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students/seniors.

Locations

The first weekend's performances will be at Guild Church (formerly Boston Brunch Church) near Davis Square, Somerville. Here’s more information about Guild Church, including their address, a map, and parking tips, and a link to their (sparse) website, and here’s a Google Maps link.

The second weekend's performances will be at Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown. Here’s more information about Mosesian Center for the Arts, including their address, a map, and parking tips, and a link to their website, and here’s a Google Maps link.

Cast and Crew

Hel	.....	Kamela Hutzley
Freder	.....	Alex LaFreniere
Maria	.....	Livie Keane
Joh	.....	Robert Bonotto
Grot	.....	David Dooks
Slim	.....	GM Hakim
Josaphat	.....	Joev Dubach
Rotwang	.....	Jeremy Holstein
Futura/ensemble (Davis)	.....	Kitty Drexel
Futura/ensemble (Watertown)	.....	Mel Abrams
Georgi/ensemble	.....	Shawyoun Shaidani
Majordomo/ensemble	.....	Meg Wickham
Marinus	.....	Declan Geoffrion Scannell
Poppy/ensemble	.....	Caroline DeBrota
Lilac/ensemble	.....	Lauren Elias
Deserta/ensemble	.....	Kate Mahoney
Simon/ensemble	.....	Joanne Robinson
Ensemble	.....	Alex Bazis
Ensemble	.....	Kevin Kordis
Foley	.....	Tori Queeno
Foley	.....	Allie Everest
Foley understudy	.....	Elyse Brown
Foley understudy	.....	Simone Agha

Co-producer	.....	Mare Freed
Co-producer	.....	Jeremy Holstein
Director	.....	Jay Sekora
Assistant Director	.....	Kitty Drexel
Stage Manager	.....	Jaclyn Wilson
Sound Designer	.....	Jacob LaRocca
Sound Designer	.....	Paul Springer
Sound Engineer	.....	Chris Cebelenski
Sound Board Op	.....	Jay Sekora
Graphic Designer	.....	Jeremy Holstein
Costume pieces	.....	Elizabeth Ryan
Foley Coordinator	.....	Simone Agha
House Manager	.....	Jamie Lin
House Manager	.....	Jacob Sommer

Series:

Spring

Spring Sci-Fi Spectaculars

Classics

Spring Sci-Fi Spectacular ’13

Jay — Fri, 09 May 2014 06:06:08 +0000

April 5th-6th, 11th-13th, & 21st, 2013

Featuring

IT’S GO TIME!

Red and the crew find themselves embroiled in a civil war for merchandise rights and are forced to side with either the ghastly, disgusting, nine-foot-tall shambling insects, or the bad guys. Will our heroes keep their spirits up and their bile down long enough to save the day?
Presented in PMRP Radio-Vision.

Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder

Writer/director Rob Noyes' vision of the World of Tomorrow. Not the bleak, post-nuclear wasteland or industrial urban dystopia of 1980s science-fiction, but the clean, modernist utopia imagined by the 1939 World's Fair: a future which, through industry and hard work, promised to be streamlined, prosperous and bright; and beyond it lay the Cosmos, just waiting for exploration and colonization. Red Shift and Lumpy lived in just this kind of Universe, and Dr. Alberts and Penny Parker were keen to travel there. It turned out, however, to be just slightly off-center from what they were expecting.

Regular Cast

Michael McAfee	.....	Red Shift
Chris Chiampa	.....	Lumpy
Liz Adams	.....	Penny Parker
Rob Noyes	.....	Dr. Alberts
Tom Russell	.....	The Narrator
Mare Freed	.....	Billy

Guest Cast

Jonathan Clegg	.....	Millie / Slate
Karen Sarao	.....	Spike / Turk
Caitlin Mason	.....	Harriet / Mauve
Lauren Robinson	.....	Melvin / T.C.

Production Team

Writer/Director	.....	Rob Noyes
Foley/FX Team	.....	Alissa Lerman Natasha Mogilevskaya Austen Wright

――――― & ―――――

“And there shall be destruction and darkness come over creation,
and the beasts shall reign over the Earth!”

Nine years after the first atomic bomb was detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, a mute little girl found wandering the desert heralds a series of mysterious disappearances. Local authorities are stumped until an eccentric scientist from Washington arrives with his daughter to aid in the investigation. But what they uncover is so fantastic and so horrendous that news of their discovery could cause a nationwide panic!
Adapted by PMRP Artistic Director Neil Marsh from the classic 1954 big-bug film by Ted Sherdeman, Russell Hughes & George Worthing Yates (story).

Principal Cast

Chuck Corley	.....	Agt. Bob Graham
Liz Salazar	.....	Dr. Patricia Medford
Jacob Sommer	.....	Dr. Harold Medford
Emery Westlake	.....	Sgt. Ben Peterson
Joev Dubach	.....	Gen. Robert O'Brien
Tegan Kehoe	.....	Narrator

Ensemble

Terry Clarey
Kal Gieber
Chris Junno
Naomi Hinchen
James Scheffler
Vickie Wu Torpey

Production Team

Director	.....	Jay Sekora
Rehearsal Assistant	.....	Terri Berson
Adaptation	.....	Neil Marsh
Foley/FX Team	.....	Alissa Lerman Natasha Mogilevskaya Austen Wright

Staff

Producer	.....	Chris DeKalb
Stage Manager	.....	Heather Tucker
Sound Designer	.....	Neil Marsh
Graphic Designer	.....	Neil Marsh
House Manager	.....	Chris DeKalb

Performance Dates

Friday, April 5th, 2013 @ 8pm
Saturday, April 6th, 2013 @ 2pm (matinee)
Saturday, April 6th, 2013 @ 8pm

Thursday, April 11th, 2013 @ 8pm
Friday, April 12th, 2013 @ 8pm
Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 8pm
Sunday, April 21st, 2013 @ 2pm

Location

Responsible Grace Church of Somerville
204 Elm Street *
Somerville, MA

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Series:

Spring Sci-Fi Spectaculars

Red Shift

Spring

Spring Sci-Fi Spectacular ’12!

Jay — Fri, 09 May 2014 06:04:21 +0000

May 11th & 12th, 2012

Following on the success of last year’s performance of Doctor Who and the Starship of Madness, THE POST-MERIDIAN RADIO PLAYERS are putting on a bigger, bolder spring production this year!

Featuring

It’s Go Time!

THE POST-MERIDIAN RADIO PLAYERS kick off their first Spring Sci-Fi Spectacular with one of their most popular shows!

Originally performed at Arisia '08, this episode of our sci-fi comedy, Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder, which both parodies and pays homage to the pulp sci-fi serials of the 1930s and ’40s (with a bit of the ’50s thrown in for good measure!), follows Red, Lumpy, Doc Alberts and Penny Parker, Girl Reporter as they try to save beloved space celebrity Jetpack Jones from his worst nightmare: angry fans with atomic weaponry!

Presented in PMRP Radio-Vision.

Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder

Writer/director Rob Noyes' vision of the World of Tomorrow. Not the bleak, post-nuclear wasteland or industrial urban dystopia of 1980s science-fiction, but the clean, modernist utopia imagined by the 1939 World’s Fair: a future which, through industry and hard work, promised to be streamlined, prosperous and bright; and beyond it lay the Cosmos, just waiting for exploration and colonization. Red Shift and Lumpy lived in just this kind of Universe, and Dr. Alberts and Penny Parker were keen to travel there. It turned out, however, to be just slightly off-center from what they were expecting.

Cast

with
Red Shift	.....	Michael McAfee
Lumpy	.....	Chris Chiampa
Dr. Alberts	.....	Rob Noyes
Penny Parker	.....	Renée Johnson
Narrator	.....	Tom Russell
Jetpack Jones/ Arthur Cogznowski	.....	James Scheffler Helen Edgar (matinee only)
Femme Fatalia/ Henrietta Nilconk	.....	Juliet Bowler
Tour Guide	.....	Joye Thaller
Kaj Regnor	.....	Christian Sterling Hegg
Yot Gimpet	.....	Julia Lunetta
Jit Farfod	.....	Liz Adams
Nin Huppin	.....	Mare Freed
Mother	.....	Juliet Bowler
Susie 495	.....	Mare Freed

Production Team

Director	.....	Rob Noyes
Creator/Head Writer	.....	Rob Noyes
Sound Designer	.....	Neil Marsh
Asst. Sound Designer	.....	Allison Schneider
Writing Team	.....	Pete Goodrich Michael McAfee Brian Rust
Tech Director	.....	Chris Cebelenski
Stage Manager	.....	Heather Tucker
Producer/ House Manager	.....	Chris DeKalb

and

Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto!

From the long-running Lux Radio Theater comes this adaptation of the classic 1951 science-fiction film. Originally airing on January 4th, 1954, this production featured Michael Rennie reprising his performance of Klaatu. Lux Radio Theater was famous for producing radio adaptations of major motion pictures, often with the original lead actors.

This adaptation of Edmund H. North’s original film script was written by Milton Geiger. The film script itself was based on the Harry Bates short story "Farewell to the Master".

Cast

with
Klaatu	.....	John Hodges
Helen Benson	.....	Karen Sarao
Bobby Benson	.....	Richard Bartlett (evening) Jeremy Holstein (matinee)
Tom Stevens	.....	James Scheffler (evening) Helen Edgar (matinee)
Mrs. Crockett	.....	Renni Boy (evening) Liz Adams (matinee)
Prof. Barnhardt	.....	Daniel Dolinov
Narrator	.....	Jacob Sommer
Harley	.....	Jacob Sommer
Hilda	.....	Liz Salazar
Agent Brady	.....	Jeremy Holstein (evening) Chris Chiampa (matinee)
General Cutler	.....	Jeremy Holstein
Colonel Ryder	.....	Chris Chiampa
British Radar Officers	.....	Liz Adams Renni Boy (evening) Caitlin Mason (matinee)
American Radar Officer	.....	Liz Salazar
News Reporter	.....	Caitlin Mason
Soldier	.....	Jeremy Holstein
Military Officer	.....	Chris Chiampa
Radio News Announcer	.....	Caitlin Mason
Military Radio Announcer	.....	Jacob Sommer
Secretary	.....	Liz Adams
Police Officer	.....	Daniel Dolinov

Production Team

Director	.....	Michael McAfee
Asst. Director	.....	Mary Ferrara
Sound Designer	.....	Neil Marsh
Asst. Sound Designer	.....	Allison Schneider
Tech Director	.....	Chris Cebelenski
Stage Manager	.....	Heather Tucker
Producer/ House Manager	.....	Chris DeKalb

Performance Dates

Friday, May 11th, 2012 @ 8pm
Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 2pm(matinee)
Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 8pm

LOCATION

Urban Promise Church of Somerville
204 Elm Street
Somerville, MA

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Series:

Spring Sci-Fi Spectaculars

Classics

Spring