TALK RADIO Performance - Premiere in HK!!

TALK RADIO

By Eric Bogosian

A Dark American Satire


‘’Talk Radio is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play written by Eric Bogosian, based on a concept by Bogosian and Tad Savinar. It centres around Barry Champlain, a Cleveland-area radio talk-show host on the eve of his radio show's national syndication. Champlain is a provocateur shock-jock, whose constant espousal of his inflammatory views and ceaseless hectoring of his callers and listeners reaps equal parts love and hate. Thousands of listeners tune in every night for his rants against contemporary America and the riotous insults he throws at callers. But on the other side of the microphone, the line between persona and personality becomes blurred. The play becomes less about the program and focuses more on the inner struggles of its host and how he has become incapable of connection beyond his phone lines, beyond the persistent calls of his eccentric, foolish, often adoring, often despising but never indifferent, listeners – beyond the people who allow Champlain to, as his operator explains, think of himself as God.’’


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•Production team:

Producer: Emilie Guillot

Director: Candice Moore

Production Manager: Van Chui

Lighting Designer: Van Chui

Set Design: Bee Wan

Stage Manager: Kannie Chung

Assistant Production Manager: Chloe Tsang


•Name of artists:

Barry Champlain: Leon Hill

Stu Noonan: Joshua Wolper

Linda Macarthur: Janice Jensen

Dan Woodruff: Mike Paleos

Sid Greenberg, Male Callers: Brad Powers

Bernie, Male Callers: Eric Krueger

Kent: Daniel Garcia

Dr Susan Fleming, Female Callers: Tammie Rhee

Rachael, Female Callers: Louisa Ward

Male Callers: Henry Coombs

Announcer: Russell Wait


•Venue: Fringe Theatre, Fringe Club, Central

•Dates: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th of December, 5 nights.

•Time: 7:45pm & 2:45pm (Saturday matinee and evening)

•Ticket price: HKD 240 Full price

HKD 180 HKTA Members

HKD 200 Students, Disabled, Senior

HKD 200 Fringe Club Members & Citibank I.T

Visa Cardholders


•Booking: www.hkticketing.com - 31 288 288

•General enquiry: 25217251


See you there!!!

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