General News: War of the World Opens in Village
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| Steve Sywak, who is also the president of the theatre group, performs part of the play. |
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| Foley artist Jonathan Vargo recreates the sound of alien laser guns. |
October 09, 2009
Can you imagine how you would feel if you turned on the radio and heard a live broadcast describing how aliens are invading New Jersey and headed our way?
Well, you’ll get a chance to experience the bone-chilling sense of being under attack when you close your eyes and sit back to listen to the Stormy Weather Players dramatic production of the radio play War of the Worlds.
The famous actor Orson Welles first read the play on air on Halloween in 1938. Told in a series of news bulletins, many radio listeners were scared and others outraged by the fictional, but very convincing, account.
In the Stormy Weather Players production, which has been adapted by director Kevin McDonnell, you will hear reports of the aliens headed up the Hudson River to the Beacon-Newburgh bridge. McDonnell says his production borrows elements from the 1938 radio play, the 1953 movie, and the recent Steven Spielberg film
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The ten actors in the production take turns at the microphones that dominate the stage in the Cornwall-on-Hudson Elementary School auditorium. Each one has a role, or several roles, in the radio play.
Key to the successful staging of the invasion are the foley artists, the two people who create the sound effects of bells ringing, radar guns zinging, and howling wind that is central to the scary atmosphere of War of the Worlds.
The radio play opens this Friday, October 9, and runs on the weekends through October 17. Click here for the full schedule.
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