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THE CHILDREN'S ZOO
The creative team behind French Quarter and The Dante Experience is proud to announce our latest multi-episode audio project. Based on actual events, The Children's Zoo takes audiences inside the world of adolescent psychiatric medicine in a Chicago hospital. Seven young patients are committed to the care of the finest doctors in the state. They arrive with a variety of troubles and challenges: eating disorders, depression, substance abuse, violent behavior, running away, schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder. Through intensive one-on-one therapy, these patients struggle to work through their problems and return to the families who cared enough to get them help. Initially resistant-they give the ward its unflattering nickname-the patients soon learn that the doctors are truly on their side. The Children's Zoo is a joint project between Mind's Ear Audio Productions and the drama department of Bloomington High School South, supported by a grant from the Bloomington Community Arts Commission. The series will be told in 13 half-hour episodes. A special live performance of the entire series will take place at Bloomington High School South over three evenings in January, 2003. The Children's Zoo will then be released on compact disc and for broadcast. The series will be directed by BHSS drama teacher Catharine Rademacher, along with Joel Pierson and Dana Dyer Pierson of Mind's Ear Audio Productions. The Piersons will donate their expertise, their time, and their studios toward the project. Students of the Bloomington High School South fine arts department will play the most important roles in the creation of the program. They will perform the roles of the seven patients, and other students in the department will also compose and perform music for the series, design and create artwork for the printed material, serve as script advisors to make sure the patients' dialogue is honest and believable, design and perform live sound effects for the production, assist with digital post-production of the recorded show, engineer and coordinate a live reading of the series at BHSS, and help market CD sales of The Children's Zoo worldwide. |
| Tony Palermo's site This site is filled with ideas and suggestions about writing and producing radio dramas. You may find some of Mr. Palermo's writing ideas a bit advanced for the average middle school/high school language arts student. The site is, however, outstanding in its wealth of resources applicable to the classroom, and many (creating sound effects for instance) are the best available, for classroom use, on the internet. If you are interested in using radio drama in you classroom, don't miss this valuable site. Mr. Palermo is associated with the Museum of Television and Radio. |
| Museum of Television and Radio MTR, in both New York and Los Angeles, provides radio drama workshops for 9 through 14 year olds. MTR also offers, for purchase, many old-time radio dramas on cassette--Suspense, Escape, The Lone Ranger, War of the Worlds, and a great selection of comedy shows including Abbott and Costello, The Bickersons, and Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen. Many of these (Suspense and Escape especially) are great for classroom listening. |
| Balance Publishing Company produces Read-Along Radio Dramas and other audio drama related classroom materials, including a book on writing and producing radio dramas in the classroom, listening skills development packages, play scripts for classroom reading, as well as a growing collectiion of free materials for the classroom. The site includes secure online ordering. |
| Radio Days: A Web Quest by Cynthia Matzat. A complete middle or jr high school approach to using radio drama. |
Radio Drama that teaches history and such. See list.
Alien Voices - Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie - videos. See our review.
Check out the resource page for other teaching info.