Elena Ivanovna Popova is a grieving widow – perhaps grieving a little too hard. Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov is an army officer looking to call in a debt from her dead husband. But will this unlikely couple find more than they bargained for?
Elena Ivanovna Popova – Sonia Backers
Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov – Nick Calderbank
Luka – Damian Corcoran
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A lot of people scoff at Science Fiction. They think it’s all spaceships and silly robots.[i] But writing Science Fiction can make you a better writer, because it encourages you to consider elements of your work that are more easily ignored when writing straight fiction or other genres. This article, which is adapted from an email I sent to the writing team developing next seasons productions for Little Wonder Radio Plays, describes three key reasons why you should try Science Fiction to become a better writer.
Alongside the release of the first of our plays from our spring writing project, Walking the Halls, by Toby Frost, today marks the official launch of Little Wonder Radio Plays on iTunes.
You can find us right here:
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/podcast/little-wonder-radio-plays/id1408132317?l=en&mt=2
Read more to find out why this is so important to us, and how you can help.
I’m running a little behind on these (too busy making new plays!) – but on the 14th of June we released our production of Voices by Hortense Flexner: this is my analysis of the play, our production, and what we learned from our visit with the spirit of Joan of Arc.
Hortense Flexner King (1885-1973) was an American poet, playwright and professor (thus spake Wikipedia). She was a brilliant mind, a fine writer, and a feminist – so naturally I wanted to include a piece of her work. But, well, Voices isn’t her best. So why the heck did I choose it?
This is a guide to writing short radio plays. A major part of my work this year has been the setting up of “Little Wonder Productions”, a production company to produce and publish short radio plays on the internet. You can listen to our first effort here, and we will publish more plays soon. Later in the year we will have a whole run of brand new plays, and I wrote this guide to help my writers. If you’re looking for more information about writing radio shorts, I recommend A More Perfect Ten by Gary Garrison for your Kindle as a great guide on ten-minute plays in theatre (plus excellent examples of ten-minute plays), and if you’re interested in paper books I rather like Writing for Radio by Shaun MacLoughlin.
