Radio Ghosts

FULL-LENGTH (60 - 65 minutes): William Tell shows you how the world is just one giant hologram now that he has shot his son in the face. Lorna carries an extra pair of rubber boots, identifying all the trees, as she speaks through the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Dr. Abernathy, a science professor - and also a wolf - howls through the rings of Saturn in a 24-hour diner that is also a wilderness. What if someone...

FULL-LENGTH (60 - 65 minutes): William Tell shows you how the world is just one giant hologram now that he has shot his son in the face. Lorna carries an extra pair of rubber boots, identifying all the trees, as she speaks through the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Dr. Abernathy, a science professor - and also a wolf - howls through the rings of Saturn in a 24-hour diner that is also a wilderness. What if someone was trying really hard to speak to you and you couldn't hear them?

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Radio Ghosts

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  • Jillian Blevins: Radio Ghosts

    Non-linear storytelling isn’t new, but it can feel gimmicky or unmotivated. Not so in this metaphysical miracle of a play in which reality spins around one unendurable, unnameable moment, the narrative orbiting it, unable to escape its gravity.

    RADIO GHOSTS is carefully crafted with tremendous economy. Here, form and content reinforce each other; heady discussions of quantum physics and the human brain illuminate the structure of the play, helping us piece together the mystery at its center.

    Sound is integral to RADIO GHOSTS, providing any designer with the opportunity of a lifetime.

    A...

    Non-linear storytelling isn’t new, but it can feel gimmicky or unmotivated. Not so in this metaphysical miracle of a play in which reality spins around one unendurable, unnameable moment, the narrative orbiting it, unable to escape its gravity.

    RADIO GHOSTS is carefully crafted with tremendous economy. Here, form and content reinforce each other; heady discussions of quantum physics and the human brain illuminate the structure of the play, helping us piece together the mystery at its center.

    Sound is integral to RADIO GHOSTS, providing any designer with the opportunity of a lifetime.

    A haunting tale.

  • Jared Michael Delaney: Radio Ghosts

    This play is haunting, imaginative, thoroughly strange and extraordinarily heartfelt. I had the good fortune of participating in an informal reading of this play and was completely transported by it. Highly recommend.

    This play is haunting, imaginative, thoroughly strange and extraordinarily heartfelt. I had the good fortune of participating in an informal reading of this play and was completely transported by it. Highly recommend.

  • Arthur M Jolly: Radio Ghosts

    Greg Romero has such a distinctive voice as a writer - and in this collaboration with soundscape designer Mike Vernusky, Romero has once again achieved something haunting, compelling and original - a theatrical experience unlike any other writer out there.
    I saw it at the Valdez Theatre Conference, with the sound design playing, which adds so much. For theatres looking for something immersive for your audience - read this play.

    Greg Romero has such a distinctive voice as a writer - and in this collaboration with soundscape designer Mike Vernusky, Romero has once again achieved something haunting, compelling and original - a theatrical experience unlike any other writer out there.
    I saw it at the Valdez Theatre Conference, with the sound design playing, which adds so much. For theatres looking for something immersive for your audience - read this play.

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WILLIAM TELL (M) mid – late 30s, sees holograms, hears waves, feels gravity too late.
LORNA ADAMS TELL/OCEAN (F) early – mid 30s, speaks through and then becomes the Pacific Ocean.
ABERNATHY/WOLF (M) mid – late 60s, carries the rings of Saturn, then becomes a wolf.

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Valdez Theater Conference (Valdez AK), Year 2022
  • Type Workshop, Organization New Leaf Theatre (Chicago IL), Year 2012
  • Type Workshop, Organization Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia PA), Year 2012
  • Type Reading, Organization Boomerang Theater Company (New York NY), Year 2011

Production History

  • Type Professional, Organization TBA Theatre (Anchorage AK), Year 2023

Awards

  • Best New Play or Musical
    BroadwayWorld Anchorage (AK)
    Winner
    2023
  • Summer New Play Development Workshop
    Hyde Park Theatre (Austin TX)
    Finalist
    2019
  • National Playwrights Conference
    Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center
    Semi-Finalist
    2012
  • Bay Area Playwrights Festival
    Finalist
    2012
  • The Seven Devils Playwriting Conference
    Finalist
    2012