Two Provocative Dramas by Arch Obler
By the A.R.T. Players
1 CD – 1 Hour – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: Abaton Radio Theater
Published: 2011
Featuring the captivating A.R.T. Players: Lauri Bortz, Amy Fulgham, Jordan Kaplan and Brady Ovson. With a musical score and artwork by Marianne Nowottny.
Arch Oboler was to radio what Rod Serling was to TV. Though he’s no longer a household name, due to lack of radio reruns, Oboler was a master of his medium, an innovative writer/director/producer who favored spine tingling, socially conscious science fiction and horror stories and politically charged, left-leaning dramas. Oboler began scripting radio shows as a teenager and rose to success with the 1930s thriller anthology Lights Out. He went on to create the largely anti-war themed series Arch Oboler’s Plays, which featured great stars such as Joan Crawford, James Cagney and Katharine Hepburn, to name but a few.
This is the first installment of Abaton Radio Theater, a series that will include original contemporary work, as well as vintage material.
This disc contains two plays:
Catwife: The gripping horror story of a once loving marriage gone wildly awry!
Baby: A psychological drama exploring a young wife’s confrontation with the possibility of motherhood and the certainty of World War.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
First published in Pall Mall Magazine, along with an H.G. Wells novel and a Jack London short story, The Point Of Honor is a Joseph Conrad novella that had its genesis in the real duels that two French Hussar officers fought in the Napoleonic era. Their names were Dupont and Fournier, which Conrad disguised slightly, changing Dupont into D’Hubert and Fournier into Feraud.
