LUTHERAN QUILTERS – Members of the Quilts for Comfort Group stand between pews draped with some of the 205 quilts they made, in the Sitka Lutheran Church Tuesday. The group made the quilts for five local non-profits and one in Anchorage. The remaining quilts are sent to Lutheran World Relief which distributes them to places around the world in need, such as Ukraine, as part of Personal Care Kits. Pictured are, from left, Helen Cunningham, Kathleen Brandt,Vicki Swanson, Paulla Hardy, Kim Hunter, Linda Swanson and Sue Fleming. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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One of the actors in the Sitka Community Theater presentation, “Radio Adventure Hour – In Space” says she hopes to “convey the full rich experience of a story to a human using only sound.”
Adrienne Wilber is the narrator of “Too Many Moons,” one of the four short plays, all written for radio performance, that will be presented by Sitka Community Theater 7 p.m. Friday at the Performing Arts Center.
“What first comes to mind when I hear the words ‘radio theater,’ is thinking about hearing my parents, and parents-aged friends reflect on the entertainment programming that was on the radio when they were young,” Wilber said.
“The narrator in a piece of radio theater is a very powerful tool to bring audiences into the story, because the narrator is the eyes of the audience,” said Wilber, a lifelong Sitkan. The story she narrates was written by Seaton Bryan, who like all of the playwrights on Friday night’s bill, is a local writer.
While traditional radio theater was performed in a broadcast studio, the hour-long program of plays Friday will be performed with the actors and a sound effects team on a stage in front of an audience.
Wilber said that she was excited for the opportunity to see the special effects, and described the sound effects team as “the real stars of the show.”
Sound effects crew members, at left, and radio actors present a drama in front of a projection screen in 2018 at the Performing Arts Center. This year’s radio theater presentation takes place 7 p.m. Friday at the Performing Arts Center. This year’s theme is outer space. (Sentinel file photo by James Poulson)
Longtime Sitkan Jeanne Stolberg is director of sound effects for all the plays.
“The sound director goes and researches, which means going to the White Elephant, pawing thorough things at their house, and finding the appropriate instruments that would make the noise that would fit the need,” Stolberg said.
The sci-fi tradition on radio, TV and the movies has its own range of special sounds, which Stolberg reproduces with the creative use of everyday objects.
“I do research on finding ‘what would make this sound effect?’” she said. “And quite often my searches lead me to ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Star Trek.’ ... I like to lay down an ambient sound, which will come out of the computer. For some of the spaceship interiors I’ve recorded a fan.”
Other instruments will include an egg beater to simulate the noise of a chain, and a Tupperware bowl to make the sound of a beating heart.
Stolberg will be joined by different sound effects teams for each play.
Since the performance is live before an audience, Stolberg said that it is “occasionally good to close their eyes, and just try to soak in the sounds.”
“Radio Adventure Hour - In Space” will be broadcast later on KCAW-FM, though the time slot has not yet been decided.
This will be the seventh time Sitka Community Theater has presented a night of on-stage radio plays, which has become a popular local tradition since the first production in 2012.
The lineup For Friday’s show is Seaton Bryan’s “Too Many Moons,” directed by Bryan and Sotera Perez, with Muriel Reid as assistant director; “Bears, Bees and Backed Goods ... In Space!” by Zeke Blackwell, directed by Christian Litten; “Spaceship!” written and directed by Rebecca Poulson; and “A Star to Steer Her By,” written and directed by Sotera Perez.
Bryan described his play as “‘Galaxy Quest’ meets ‘Aliens,’ just think classic ‘Star Trek’ with a bit of ‘Evil Dead’ thrown in.”
He noted that when he wrote the play, he had to “take into consideration that no one is going to see what’s going on.” Bryan said that while he wrote the sounds into his script, it was up to the effects team to make them come to life.
“Come and see it,” Stolberg said, “because we are actually doing live sounds on the stage and it is pretty fascinating to watch.”
Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for students and seniors, and are available at Old Harbor Books and at the door.
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