The Radio Project is our attempt to recapture the magic of radio theater through a series of pieces recorded live in front of an audience. Through The Radio Project Pagliacci's Fools seeks to offer the opportunity for local actors and writers to explore another aspect of their craft while giving our community a chance to experience a unique form of performance art, something which has not been readily available for decades. Eventually we hope to go beyond the Bay Area by making the recordings available to stations internationally through mailings, satellite downloads and the internet.
The Radio Project Presentations
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Empress Niger and The One Eye'd Jack
The Adventures Of Yes-Man & Eunuch Boy: 'The Fungi Fiasco'
Wonderland
The Doughnut Conspiracy - There's a hole in the middle
The Potion
Nine Lives
Dancing in the Park
The Adventures of Yes Man and Eunuch Boy - The Diabolical Divas
Assembly of the Dead
Dean and Daisy Talk About Sex
Aything Can Happen
In Spirit
Critical Commentary Reads Barbara Tartland
Americans in Paris
Saffronia
The War That Never Was
Instant Radio
The Breakdown
Collections 2001
Sports Hell
THE RADIO PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
COLLECTIONS
Written and Directed by Vini Beachem
Whom does the Devil call when She has to collect on delinquent souls? A taxman of course! What are you willing to do for the return of your soul?
Recorded March 27, 28 and 29, 1999 at the KPFA studios in Berkeley, California
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EMPRESS NIGER AND THE ONE EYE'D JACK
Written and Directed by Vini Beachem
Recorded March 27, 28 and 29, 1999 at the KPFA studios in Berkeley, California
Thousands come to L.A. with dreams of becoming the next big thing. What happens when the dreams crash into reality? That is what Buck and Empress Niger must find out. He is a magician. She is a hustler. They both do tricks!
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THE ADVENTURES OF YES-MAN & EUNUCH BOY: 'THE FUNGI FIASCO'
Written and Directed by Vini Beachem
Recorded May 22, 23 and 24, 1999 at the KPFA studios in Berkeley, California
Yes-Man and Eunuch Boy are up to their elbows in spores as they battle the evil (and spongy) Moldfinger. Will they save the city from the musty clutches of this fiend? Stay tuned.
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Those Tech Fools
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WONDERLAND
Written and Directed by Vini Beachem
Recorded May 22, 23 and 24, 1999 at the KPFA studios in Berkeley, California.
What would happen if 'The Simpsons' decided to adapt the classic 'Alice' stories by Lewis Carroll? Hmmm! Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum are more like Siegfried & Roy? The Mock Turtle sings like John Lee Hooker? No more queens yelling 'Off with your head.' They're now divas. And why is Alice wearing ruby slippers? Hmmm, indeed.
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Original Music Composed & Performed by Jim Russell
THE DOUGHNUT CONSPIRACY - THERE'S A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE
Written and directed by Vini Beachem
Performed in the streets of Berkeley July 31, 1999. A satirical response to the conflict between KPFA staff/programmers and the Pacifica Foundation
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| Announcer/Papa Say Say: | Vini Beachem |
| Tex/ #1: | Mark Swetz |
| Hari Kari/Julia: | Katie Bales |
| Chatterbox/Bunstein: | Scott Campbell |
| Swatworth/#3: | Leona Jacobs-White |
| Cap't/ Mulberry/#2: | Bill Clemente |
THE POTION
Written and directed by Vini Beachem
Recorded September 19 and September 20, 1999 at The Parkway Theater in Oakland, California
Anne is a woman who just wants a good relationship. That's all. Who does she turn to for guidance? Her Mother? Would you? Her best friend, Kitty? Perhaps Lady Cassandra and her druid magic? Is the notion for the potion the answer to her problems or just the beginning? Directed by Katie Bales.
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NINE LIVES
Written and Directed by Vini Beachem
Recorded September 26 and September 27, 1999 at the Parkway Theater in Oakland, California
Lady Cassandra is called upon again. This time she leads a woman from the darkness of nightmares to the sweet light of dreams.
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DANCING IN THE PARK
Written and directed by Vini Beachem
Recorded September 26 and September 27, 1999 at the Parkway Theaterin Oakland, California
Springtime in Paris! Need we say more? Watch how love is made anew in the hearts of two who thought their days of feeling love's warmth were long gone.
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THE ADVENTURES OF YES MAN AND EUNUCH BOY - THE DIABOLICAL DIVAS
Written and Directed by Vini Beachem
Recorded February 27 and 29, 2000 at the Parkway Theater in Oakland, California
The continuing heroic adventures of Yes-Man and Eunuch Boy continues as they battle the Siamese twin opera singers Kitrina and Katrina and their fiendish mother Pussy Willow.
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ASSEMBLY OF THE DEAD
Written by Michael Mace. Directed by Vini Beachem
Recorded February 27 and 29, 2000 at the Parkway Theater in Oakland, California
The conflicts and family secrets between a mother and her two daughters.
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DEAN AND DAISY TALK ABOUT SEX
Written and Directed by Scott Campbell
Recorded May 28, 2000 at the Alice Arts Center in Oakland, California and May 29 at the KPFA studios in Berkeley, California
Dean and Daisy Talk. . . about cookies. . . about dancing. . . about. . . sex
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ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
Written Cary Pepper and Directed byVini Beachem
Recorded April 29, 30 and May 1 2000 at the KPFA studios in Berkeley, California
In a quiet neigborhood not too far from you a door to door magazine salesman finds out that Anything Can happen.
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IN SPIRIT
Written and Directed by Vini Beachem
Recorded April 29, 30 and May 1 2000 at the KPFA studios in Berkeley, California
While three soldiers wait for daylight- their memories of family and friends visit them in spirit.
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CRITICAL COMMENTARY READS BARBARA TARTLAND
Written Jacqueline Sokolinsky and Directed by Vini Beachem
In a quiet neigborhood not too far from you a door to door magazine salesman finds out that Anything Can happen.
Recorded July 30 and 31, 2000 at the Alice Arts Center in Oakland, California
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AMERICANS IN PARIS
Written and Directed by Vini Beachem
A choral poem by Vini Beachem based on the composition "An American in Paris" by George Gershwin
Recorded July 30 and 31, 2000 at the Alice Arts Center in Oakland, California
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SAFFRONIA
Written by Vini Beachem and Directed by Andrew Rosenbach
In a small Parsih in Louisiana a woman is found dead. Now it's up to an out-of-town detective to find the truth in the secrets long left unspoken.
Recorded October 7 and 8, 2000 at the Alice Arts Center in Oakland
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THE WAR THAT NEVER WAS
Written by Alan Lipton and Directed by Vini Beachem
What happens when paralelle universes collide? Chance enecounters in one can become life changing events in the other. A young man finds just how life changing it can be.
Recorded October 7 and 8, 2000 at the Alice Arts Center in Oakland
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INSTANT RADIO
Written by Bill Chessman and Directed by Vini Beachem
Just add a little imagination and you can have "Instant Radio": a full 24 hours of programming in less than 30 minutes!
Recorded March 24 and 25 at the Alice Arts Center in Oakland
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THE BREAKDOWN
Written and Directed by Vini Beachem
There comes a time in one's life that one reflects on the person one has become. How does one rediscover the person of one's youth. Perhaps one should break it down.
Recorded March 24 and 25, 2001 at the Alice Arts Center in Oakland
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COLLECTIONS 2001
Written by Vini Beachem and Directed by Claudine Jones
Whom does the Devil call when She has to collect on delinquent souls? A taxman of course! What are you willing to do for the return of your soul?
Recorded July 21-22, 2001 at the Alice Arts Center, Oakland
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SPORTS HELL
Written by John Angell Grant and Directed by Vini Beachem
Recorded July 21-22, 2001 at the Alice Arts Center, Oakland
A Sports Show DJ finds his life turned upside down when he is saddled with a young, cunning female producer. He's in Sports Hell.
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