Shortwave Radio Theatre Festival Archive

Part one: Playwrights’ circle with Sarah Emtage & Shannon Kingston
- Artist
- Interview
- Shortwave Radio Theatre Festival
- Storefront Fringe Festival
Sarah Emtage is a poet, playwright, sculptor, and library technician in Kingston. She is the author of the radio play The Sound Castle (2020) and its two-part sequel, Jabberwocky and The Listeners (2022), which were produced for the Shortwave Theatre Festival. Shannon Kingston is a Kingston-born playwright currently studying children’s media at Centennial College. Her radio play Garden Of Edith (2022) was produced for the Shortwave Festival, and her previous […]

‘Garden of Edith’ is a Fantastical Feat
- Festival
- Kingston Theatre Alliance
- Review
- Shortwave Radio Theatre Festival
Let’s talk audio plays. There’s an obvious challenge here: Keep an audience engaged through only sound. Under-do it: you’ve lost their attention. Over-do it: tumultuous confusion. Finding that happy medium is really where a show sells itself. Now, one begs the question, does Shannon Kingston’s Garden of Edith find that sweet spot? …Yes. With beautiful precision. Presented by First Ditch Collective, the premiere of Garden of Edith begins with a […]

Old form, new frontiers – The Soundcastle at the Shortwave Radio Theatre Festival
- Review
- Shortwave Radio Theatre Festival
In her new radio play The Soundcastle, Sarah Emtage explores what happens if a tree falls in a forest and somewhere, rather than someone, is around to hear it.