Radius on Zoom

Radius responded to lockdown by turning to activities on Zoom.  These included occasional play readings for members and a call-out for short dramas in which the scenario is a Zoom meeting. Seven successful scripts have been added to the Radius script collection under the title Radius Connecting 2021.  They are :

Always? by Kit Walkham

A church-based women’s group meets online to discuss the inspiring words from 1 Corinthians 13, that love “always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres”. The reality may not be so easy.

Any Other Business by Nickie Cox

When the church council meets to discuss routine business, the last thing they’re expecting is that one of their members has had a visit from Jesus.

Family Zoom Time by Martin Keady

Zooming with their mum, a brother and sister find different ways of appreciating the positive things in their lives in the face of the pandemic.

Ghosting Hamlet by Mark Allen Eaton

In this entertaining time-travelling fantasy, Hildegard of Bingen together with Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Horatio are attending an online class at the University of Wittenberg.

The Birds are Feeding Me by Rex McGregor

Working from home in his apartment, Doug is being driven mad by Kim in the flat above, but the situation is resolved when she takes over as secretary of the residents’ association.

Zoom Dance by James English

Two estranged brothers and a sister share their lockdown experiences online. Terry is just out of hospital with Covid, depressed, short-tempered and unable to contemplate the future, but he gradually becomes interested in his sister Nicole’s playwriting and his brother Dwight’s online dancing sessions.

And for Easter

The Dark before the Dawn by Les Ellison

The setting is the computer screen of the apostle John, around midnight on the day after Good Friday . . . Then Mary Magdalene knocks at John’s door with the news that she has seen Jesus.

A fuller account of any one of these is available in the shop, where you can order a copy for £5.  There are no performing fees.

The theatre is one of the most expressive and useful vehicles for the edification of a country’s people, and a barometer that marks the country’s greatness or declines. A sensitive theatre . . . can alter a people’s sensibility in just a few years, while a decadent theatre where hooves have taken the place of wings can cheapen and lull to sleep an entire nation. 

Federico Garcia Lorca, 1898-1936