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A Theatre in Your Head 2023

Finding Our Place in the World

A Theatre in Your Head is the long running series featuring radio dramas written and produced by students in Richard K. Thomas’s THTR 56900 Radio Drama course. Students in this course form groups, each of which create a twenty-minute completely original radio drama from script through sound effects through music score, featuring student actors from Purdue Theatre. Since the early 1990’s, local public radio station WBAA premiered these dramas on air at the end of the semester in which they were created. With WBAA under new ownership, the Department of Theatre is proud to stream the 2023 productions so that they once again can be available to the public.

 

Artist
Created by Huhao Yang, Brandt Minnicus and Amber Wolf; Featuring Zhong Wang, Noah Red Elk, Amber Wolf, Ruby Foster, Eric Shin and Brandt Minnicus.
In a small home studio in a modest Midwestern town, a struggling composer flounders as his music fails to earn recognition. Inspiration strikes in the form of an artificial intelligence chatbot that offers to help push his creation over the finish line. But the chatbot has ideas of its own for future collaborations. The endless quest of humans to rise above their self-doubts meets opportunity with strings attached. And they aren’t all musical.
 
Discord
Created by Tyler A. Berg, Tori Bloom, and Stephen Tsai; Featuring Sydney Hollingsworth, Meagan Hipsky, and Noah Red Elk
Our scene shifts to a small office where strict rules govern music performance and expression. Censors work to control dissemination, but one censor decides to take matters into her own hands. A journey through the underworld of illicit music ensues as humans push for freedom in an authoritarian system.
 
As the Time Passes
Created by Grant Porter, Alex Petty and Chloe Pate; Featuring Jack Fuikerson, Maya Radjenovich, Joe Bertsch, Stephanie Breinholt and Alan Coxhead.
We close with a journey that starts out in a small-town Oregon garage and ends spectacularly up Highway 101 at the infamous Devil’s Punchbowl. Jamie struggles to find his place in the world; when it all comes crashing down, he takes one last drive that might change his life forever. An old friend shows up along the way, but is she enough to turn the tide on time?
Students in THTR 56900 completing work on their radio drama projects. View full size
Students in THTR 56900 completing work on their radio drama projects.
Students in THTR 56900 completing work on their radio drama projects. View full size
Students in THTR 56900 completing work on their radio drama projects.
Students in THTR 56900 completing work on their radio drama projects. View full size
Students in THTR 56900 completing work on their radio drama projects.