Entity Theatre presents THE DARK – A Halloween Radio Play

MUNICH — (MunichNOW Arts & Tradition) — Be ready to face your largest fears! WNTT Radio Theatre presents a few of the scariest, creepiest, most surprising quick tales from the deepest catacombs of radio performs tailored to the stage.

Three Skeleton Quay by Georges-Gustave Toudouze
The Shadow Folks by Richard Thorne
Bushy Monster by Alonzo Deen Cole
The Inform-Story Coronary heart by Edgar Allen Poe
Battle of the Worlds by H.G. Wells – tailored by the LMU English language writing group

Carried out stay from 28 to 31 October 2021, 7.30pm, on the new THX-certified
4K-video-capable Amerikahaus auditorium (Karolinenplatz 3, 80333 München).
Listeners at residence can tune in to the LIVE broadcast on Halloween evening.

Tickets are 15 € full worth/8 € concessions (college students, individuals with disabilities). VIP
“Kulturfreund” tickets are 25 € and embrace a assured first row seat. Order your
tickets on-line: https://thedark-halloween.eventbrite.com

The occasion just isn’t fitted to youngsters underneath 12 years of age. The venue is wheelchair
accessible.

In cooperation with Amerikahaus München.

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Synopses

Three Skeleton Quay by Georges-Gustave Toudouze
Three males tending a lighthouse on a distant island discover themselves lonely no extra when an deserted ship carrying terrifying guests makes landfall. Nightmare turns into actuality because the island is rapidly overtaken by a horde of ferocious, blood-hungry rats. When the monster rats break into the lighthouse tower, a life-and-death battle ensues as the lads search to avoid wasting themselves by fleeing to the highest of the lighthouse, with nothing greater than a steel trapdoor between themselves and their impending doom. Will the three males survive the rats and ever make it off Three Skeleton Quay?

The Shadow Folks by Richard Thorne
Sally is studying within the library of her home late one night when she senses that she just isn’t alone. Somebody… or one thing is there, watching her from the shadows. Following a whisper to the pitch-black hallway, Sally feels an evil presence as a big, hulking form creeps towards her. She rapidly switches on the sunshine and the form disappears! What precisely is lurking within the shadows, and what does it need from Sally? Depart the lights on as you hearken to this darkish and horrifying story of a younger woman’s struggle to outlive the evil that’s closing in round her – The Shadow Folks.

Bushy Monster by Alonzo Deen Cole
Barbara Turner inherits a big mansion and grounds from a wierd outdated woman named Hawkins and strikes there together with her younger brother and aunt. The mansion will quickly be all theirs if Barbara carries out the unusual needs in Mrs. Hawkins’ will, together with residing there repeatedly for one 12 months and sleeping in a selected room each evening for at the very least three hours, all by herself. The unwitting new tenants on the stairs of this large home will quickly be taught concerning the mysterious connection between the weird inheritance situations and a wierd creature that leaves 6-foot-long hairs behind – The Bushy Monster!

The Inform-Story Coronary heart by Edgar Allen Poe
In comfortless environment, a younger man plans and commits the “good crime” to rid himself of the horror of putting up with his landlord’s “evil” eye. When a detective stops by on a fairly completely different matter, it turns into obvious that the younger man has little to worry. The one bother is, he can’t cease the pounding of the useless man’s coronary heart. Why can’t the detective hear it? Because the pounding grows, witness the insanity of a guilt-ridden assassin in The Inform-Story Coronary heart.

Battle of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Eager to find out as soon as and for all whether or not people are alone within the universe, a discipline reporter recounts stay occasions whereas a big crowd gathers on the touchdown website of a wierd, cylindrical meteor. As tentacled guests from Mars emerge from the cylinder, it rapidly turns into clear that they didn’t are available peace. Chaos erupts because the Martians assault the bystanders with warmth rays and spider-like tripods descend upon New York Metropolis, shelling out lethal black smoke so far as the attention can see… Is anyplace protected? Is there anybody left? Have the Martians taken over the world? Hear to search out out if humanity can hope to outlive this Martian invasion in Battle of the Worlds.

Contact: Katrin Fegert (katrin.fegert@entitytheatre.org, 0176 210 593 64)

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Director’s assertion

The Battle of the Worlds by English creator H. G. Wells first serialized in 1897 by Pearson’s Journal within the UK and by Cosmopolitan journal within the US has impressed seven movies, in addition to numerous radio dramas, comic-book diversifications, video video games, quite a lot of tv sequence, and sequels or parallel tales by different authors. Essentially the most well-known, or notorious, adaptation is the 1938 radio broadcast that was narrated and directed by Orson Welles. The primary two-thirds of the 60-minute broadcast have been introduced as a sequence of reports bulletins, typically described as having led to outrage and panic by listeners who believed the occasions described in this system to be actual.

Tonight’s adaptation was impressed by a 1971 radio broadcast by WKBW in Buffalo, NY and made related to our time and place by Untold Tales, the LMU English Language Writers’ Membership.

Solid & Crew

Director: Jim Nellis
Producer: Katrin Fegert

Solid (in alphabetical order): Alexander Siebert, Brianna Goins, Bogdan Tabacaru, Cristina
Richardson, Daniel Beaver, David Kinsella, David Viita, Elif Bilge Kavun, Esther Gilvray, Jennifer Blastorah, Jennifer Mikulla, Jodi Pfleghar, Kumar Barua, Ladan Shahlaei, Marc Lachance, Silvia Pfleghar, Susan Voight

Stage Supervisor: Birgit Mueller
Technical Director: Daniel Plappert
Assistant director (Three Skeleton Quay, The Shadow Folks, Bushy Monster): Bogdan Tabacaru

Costumes: Susan Voight
Hair and make-up: Adriana Godrid
Graphic design and pictures: Peter Heinz
Weblog and podcast: Roger Voight
Copywriter: Emilee Bonner
Entrance of home: Andy Biggs
Lights: Daniel Plappert
Sound design: Andrey Korotkov
QLAB audio playback: Christine Fuß
Reside broadcast: Andrea von Eichhorn
Stage fingers: Mattias Carlborg, Ogdon Waggoner

Contact: Katrin Fegert (katrin.fegert@entitytheatre.org, 0176 210 593 64)