Baker Street, Christmas classics and sci-fi, performed on campus.
Redhawk Radio Theater performs stories as full-cast audio drama from the campus of Southeast Missouri State University, from Sherlock Holmes cases to O. Henry, Louisa May Alcott and a science-fiction serial called 'Infinitum'. The literary adaptations open by naming the story and its author and close by reading the cast list aloud.
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Redhawk Radio Theater is an audio drama production group based on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University, and its episodes are the performances themselves. The adaptations announce the story and its author, then go straight into the text. They close just as formally, with a spoken list of who played whom. Between those bookends sits a mixed anthology. Sherlock Holmes recurs. In 'A Scandal in Bohemia', Watson waits by the fire at Baker Street until a drunken-looking groom walks in and turns out to be Holmes in disguise, laughing at how he spent his morning. 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches' includes a description of a large square house, whitewashed but streaked with damp, with a clump of copper beeches in front. In 'The Final Problem', Holmes asks Watson to come with him to the continent and hands over instructions so exact that they specify which hansom cabs to turn away. Watson's first-person narration carries all three, voiced by Maggie MacArthur, with Jonathan Reynolds as Holmes and Deanna Rubach as Professor Moriarty. The 2021 Christmas Story Series changes the temperature. O. Henry's 'The Gift of the Magi' begins with Della counting one dollar and eighty-seven cents, three times, with Christmas a day away. 'Little Women Chapter 2' finds Jo awake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning, and later the March sisters making pasteboard guitars and cotton robes glittering with tin spangles for their own private performances. It suits a group that makes its own productions. 'Infinitum - Part 3' leaves Baker Street and Christmas morning behind entirely. It drops into a parking garage at night, with a red dot dancing in someone's eye and things suddenly getting very warm, among characters with names like Firestrike, Crosslance and Everburn. One figure says it can feel another's loyalties. Another voice announces that it is all that is left of Firestrike, passed on through a thought transfer. The credits say the most about the show. The same names cross between productions: Reynolds plays Holmes and narrates the O. Henry story, Rubach moves from Moriarty to Jo March, and Elena Seidelman goes from Irene Adler to Amy March. Familiar voices keep turning up in unfamiliar roles, so the anthology sounds like the work of a company rather than a string of one-offs. The Holmes episodes make an easy starting point, since the Watson and Holmes pairing stays fixed across them, while 'Infinitum' shows the group in science-fiction mode.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes classic stories acted out by a full cast, with narration and character voices split among performers, and who is happy to move from Baker Street to Christmas stories to a science-fiction serial.
What sets it apart: Instead of one reader working through the classics, a university-based group casts them. The same performers trade roles across Conan Doyle, O. Henry, Alcott and a science-fiction serial, and each adaptation closes with the cast read aloud.
Redhawk Radio Theater is an audio drama production organization recording out of the campus of Southeast Missouri State University - creating, writing, directing, and acting out stories in the fiction podcast format. Join us as we produce an anthology of stories all through the academic year!
Holmes gives Watson a cab-by-cab escape plan; you get a seat beside the detective.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Watson's farewell turns a flight toward the Continent into a stark old-radio reckoning.
The Final Problem finds Dr. Watson watching Sherlock Holmes arrive pale, guarded, and unwilling to stay beneath his friend's roof. From there, a plotted route through London, a waiting brougham, and a reserved first-class carriage for the Continental Express turn the escape into…
Holmes applies severe logic to the uneasy household at the Copper Beeches.
This radio drama begins with an interest in logic before putting that idea to work at the Copper Beeches, where Violet Hunter arrives at a damp, uneasy house and finds Mr. and Mrs. Rewcastle hard to read.
Holmes enters Irene Adler's neighborhood in disguise and leaves with his plan beaten by her wit.
A Scandal in Bohemia makes Sherlock Holmes's fascination with Irene Adler feel less like romance than a collision of disguise, observation, and nerve. With Dr.
Four small books guide the March sisters from Christmas morning warmth to homemade theatre and a tender worry for their father.
Christmas morning in the March household begins with four small books tucked under four pillows, giving the sisters a shared point of wonder before the day opens out. Jo wakes Meg, the different covers are compared, and Meg's gentleness gives the scene its soft emotional center.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
["Red Hawk Radio Theater's \"The Final Problem\" centers on Holmes treating Professor Moriarty as \"the Napoleon of crime\" and an intellectual equal.", "Holmes arrives at Watson's room on April 24th looking pale and thin, warning about \"air guns\" and asking for a fast escape plan.", "The script names three attacks in London, including a furiously driven van, a falling brick, and a bludgeon man, as Holmes tries to pin Moriarty down.", "The pursuit then moves through a priest disguise, a Baker Street fire, and a route toward Switzerland and the Reichenbach Falls."]
Red Hawk Radio Theatre's Sherlock Holmes adaptation follows Violet Hunter's visit to Copper Beeches and the strange governess offer from Geoffrey Rewcastle.
Red Hawk Radio Theatre's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia" centers on Sherlock Holmes, Dr.
Red Hawk Radio Theater’s Little Women Chapter 2 follows Christmas morning in the March house, where Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy open books from Marmee and trade teasing over small gifts.
Redhawk Radio Theater’s "Infinitum - Part 3" follows Touchstone, Jade, Asha, and Firestrike through a covert war involving Corex and Infinitum.
Jade Lux, two months into training at the psychic agency Infinitum, starts the episode by guessing his colleague Asha's name and Maryland upbringing.
Redhawk Radio Theater's "Infinitum - Part 1" opens with agents Stormcast, Touchstone and Firestrike using a "thought transfer" to locate a captured target, while a one-way mission costs one agent his life.
In a post-apocalyptic world, a journalist interviews a lab worker about a mysterious incident involving a magnetized vaccine.
A group of workers investigate strange occurrences during a stormy night, with a creepy atmosphere and hints of supernatural elements.
A fantasy audio drama about dragons facing a curse that prevents their eggs from hatching, leading to a moral dilemma.
A college audio drama group presents the first part of a fantasy story about young dragons seeking revenge after an attack.