radio plays and videos
Some of these plays are performed with real actors and some are entirely performed by one person using AI to as a filter to change their voice.
A Misdummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a group enters the woods under the light of the moon and takes mind-altering substances. They engage in romantic mix-ups and encounter creatures from another dimension. Shakespeare explores the boundary between illusion and reality in this play, suggesting that life itself might be a dream. Performed by Robin Schild and Claudia Rosa
As you like it..by William Shakespeare
Rosalind and her cousin escape into the forest and find Orlando, Rosalind's love. Disguised as a boy shepherd, Rosalind has Orlando woo her under the guise of "curing" him of his love for Rosalind. Rosalind reveals she is a girl and marries Orlando during a group wedding at the end of the play. performed by Robin Schild
The Importance of being earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde that mocks the culture and manners of Victorian society. It is a farcical comedy that relies on satire and a comic resolution to make that mockery more palatable to viewers. The play is about friends Jack and Algernon's double-lives interfering with their romantic pursuits. It is considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement and a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy. performed by Robin Schild
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter revolves around a piano player, Stanley Webber, who stays in a shabby seaside boarding house owned by the Boles. He is wary of strangers and doesn’t tell much about his past. One day, when Stanley is having his birthday party, two strangers arrive to turn everything upside down. Goldberg and McCann cause chaos at the boarding house without disclosing the purpose of their visit. They subject Stanley to intense cross-examination with questions that lack logic. The Birthday Party playwright uses the language of the play to highlight the meaningless existence of the characters and their inability to discover the truth. Featuring Robin Schild
Captain Kid
A children's book author finds his psyche and life unraveling as his books get banned, charges loom for an inadvertent crime and his 'fiction' erupts to alarming life. To stave off at least one of these, he's also drafted, against his will, to help solve a string of vicious murders in L.A." Written by Mark Williams, featuring Robin Schild, Robert Sicular, Claudia Rosa ,Jude Haukom and Keith Jeffords.
Christmas in Carrolton
Sharla is a beautiful, mysterious movie star on a train bound for her old stomping grounds. While on the train, she meets a stranger, who knows more than she wants anyone to know about her. Sharla is one of those women who is a victim of her own beauty and so are all the men she meets. Written by Lee Brady and featuring Robin Schild and Claudia Rosa
Cliche
A Bartender thinks he’s seen and heard it all until a young Performance Artist comes in and takes a stool at his bar. In this short, punchy scene, we learn about each of them they fiercely disagree about the meaning of the word “cliché. In mime and meme, she seeks to prove it is not just a word to describe the overused phrase, but it also describes us. He defends his more optimistic view, and the ensuing dialogue is fierce, entertaining and educational. Written by Lee Brady and featuring Claudia Rosa and Robin Schild
Hannah's story
Hannah Schild discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her assimilated childhood; her education in both Christian and Jewish schools; the lack of antisemitism she experienced until 1937; her parents' decision to send her on a children's transport to Brussels, Belgium in May 1939; her feelings about leaving her parents; her experiences on the train; her experiences living with other children in a large house in the Flemish countryside until the German invasion of Belgium in 1940; their hurried journey on a crowded train to a village in the south of France (near Toulouse), and her experiences in this refugee children's camp; traveling in May 1941 to join her parents in Bilbao, Spain; their journey to the United States on an overcrowded ship; her father's death from typhoid; her life in the US; continuing her education; and her marriage and children.
Lilith
Riding the luxury train Desert Oasis, through the desert to L.A., discredited sheriff Joe Manton is haunted by the recent “suicide” of ex-German scientist Gottfried Silkes, who may have been killed by supernatural forces. Forces possibly on the train with him in the form of Hollywood star Tallulah Hennessey. Written by Mark Williams
Arches , Balance and Light
Arches, Balance and Light is the story of famed architect Julia Morgan. The Berkeley native was the first woman to be admitted (after much struggle) to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the first female architect certified in California, and the first female architect to win (posthumously) the AIA Gold Medal. Incredibly devoted to her career, over 700 of Morgan’s designs have been built. She is most famous for designing Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst’s mansion at San Simeon, but the Bay Area is filled with her work. Her slavish devotion to architecture left little time for anything else, including, it seems, a romantic life. Enter playwright Mary Spletter, who has brought the fascinating character of Morgan to life, and added a little fictional ornamentation, imagining what might have gone on during Morgan’s time in Paris.
Pet Lingerie
The history of modern sketch comedy (a series of scenes or vignettes called “sketches”), goes back to its wide popularity on the vaudeville circuit before being reborn into a broad series of TV shows in Great Britain (Beyond the Fringe, Monty Python) and the U.S. (Sesame Street, The Carol Burnett Show, Saturday Night Live). Legendary writer/producer Mel Brooks paved the way to be fearless about who or what could be the butt of a joke. Age, race, creed—all fair game. He taught us that laughter was the premium remedy to work through some of the biggest challenges in our society. Pet Lingerie owes a lot to sketch comedy and Mel Brooks’ chutzpah and also suggests Perotti and Carrade is a full service tax, audit, and accounting firm, dedicated to providing our clients with professional, personalized services and guidance in a wide range of financial and business needs. comparisons to mockumentaries like Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show. Similar to those two films, Pet Lingerie explores the zany cultural quirks of Middle America—-tonight in an unpredictable visit to the Terre Haute Airport Suites Hotel – an otherwise unremarkable place on the map. Three wannabe viral sensations descend upon “Gary Panko’s Crowdfunding Success Weekend” to kickstart some of the silliest product concepts imaginable. The endlessly pretentious Gary Panko leads the trio into a marketing and life adventure aided by an outrageously mismatched “menagerie” of characters clutched at one moment in time on our technological thoroughfare.
David Wood: Transmitting the Spirit of Dance
A Documentary about David Wood by Jaimie Capo During Wood's career, he served as a rehearsal director and soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company. He also danced with Alwin Nikolais, José Limón, Doris Humphrey, the Dudley-Maslow Bales Trio, Charles Weidman, and Helen Tamiris. He appeared on television as an actor/dancer, in Broadway musicals, and with the Metropolitan and New York City Opera companies. “He was a magnificent jumper and very light on his feet,” said his wife, Marnie Thomas, who worked with him at the Martha Graham Dance Company. “He could take off and hang in the air.” Thomas, also a professor of modern dance technique, choreography and dance history, said her husband brought to his field abilities to dance, sing, act and teach. He had a dramatically strong presence on stage and a driving personality as well, she said. Born in Fresno, Calif., in 1925, Wood graduated from UC Berkeley on his 20th birthday. On the same day, Wood was commissioned into the U.S. Navy, serving aboard the USS Philadelphia through the end of World War II. With support from the GI Bill, he moved to New York to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse, where he developed a new focus on dance. In 1949, he began his professional dance career as a teacher for, and member of, Hanya Holm's company. Wood began his 15-year association with Martha Graham in 1953, performing and touring with her company, along with teaching in her school. Half of that time, he served as rehearsal director for her company. Of the many roles she created for him, Wood probably is best known for his portrayal of the messenger of death in Graham's epic “Clytemnestra.” During this period, he was part of the faculty of the High School of Performing Arts and taught each summer at the American Dance Festival in New London, Conn. In 1968, he established the dance program at UC Berkeley and founded the Bay Area Repertory Dance resident dance company, BARD, which continues to tour the western U.S. and Europe