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Halloween Fright Night

30 October 2019

Re-Imagined Radio presented a re-mix of horror and fright from radio programs like Lights Out, Quiet, Please!, and Suspense. The result? A delightful shiver of fear up your spine. Live performance by Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington. Live audience count: 100. Streamed live on KXRW-FM, Vancouver, WA. Archival recording available for on demand listening.

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Recorded live performance.

Credits

"The Locked Room Mystery"
Cast
John Barber as ANNOUNCER/NARRATOR
Derek Nolan as CHASE, a mystery writer, and KERRIGAN, a character in Chase's murder mystery novel
Audrey Bacon as TAYLOR, a police detective
Ian Hanley as STEWART, a police detective

"Murder Castle"
Cast
John Barber as ANNOUNCER/NARRATOR
Derek Nolan as STEWART, a man in the business of murder for profit
Audrey Bacon as ELLA, a young woman applying for a job with STEWART
Arianna Dorenbosch as BETTY, Ella's sister
Ian Hanley as POLICEMAN

"Knock at the Door"
Cast
John Barber as ANNOUNCER/NARRATOR
Barbara Richardson as LORETTA, a wife who hates her mother-in-law
Audrey Bacon as Mrs. Kruger, the mother-in-law
Larry Taylor as FREDDIE, son of Mrs. Kruger

"Thing on the Fourble Board"
Cast
John Barber as ANNOUNCER/NARRATOR
Larry Taylor as PORKY, an oilfield roughneck
Ian Hanley as BILLY, a geologist

"Chicken Heart"
Cast
John Barber as ANNOUNCER/NARRATOR
Derek Nolan as Dr. ALBERTS, a research scientist
Arianna Dorenbosch as INTERN
Audrey Bacon as Mrs. John C. HALOP, a society woman
Ian Hanley as Fire Department CAPTAIN
Barbara Richardson as MAYOR, who wants to shoot first, and ask questions later

Credits

Promotional Graphics by Laura Evancich

Background

The Locked Room Mystery

Lights Out, episode #90, 21 October 1925, by Willis Cooper
A novelist, struggling to write a murder mystery, locks himself in his office only to be interrupted by a stranger who resembles the story's murderer.

Murder Castle

Lights Out, 16 February 1938, by Arch Obler
Young women applying for jobs in a private home disappear. One day the sister of one of these missing women knocks on the door and brings a reckoning.

Knock at the Door

Lights Out, 2 March 1938, AKA "Mother in Law," by Arch Obler
A woman and her mother-in-law have a difficult relationship. The woman has a plan. The mother-in-law has revenge.

Thing on the Fourble Board

Quiet Please!, episode #60, 8 September 1948, by Willis Cooper
A mysterious, and dangerous, creature is brought up from miles underground by a drilling crew in Texas. A crew member tells the story to a listener who does not realize his part in the story.

Chicken Heart

Suspense, by Arch Obler
A chicken heart is kept alive outside its original body by a scientist. When a lab accident causes the chicken heart to grow to enormous size and threaten to consume the world, the scientist tries frantically to find a solution. Will he be successful?