SmorgShow Theater: Rope

SmorgShow Theater (Recreated Radio Dramas from the Golden Age of Radio)

We are so excited to finally present our latest radio play that we have been working on since August. Normally the SmorgShow players re-enact classic radio dramas, but in this episode, we aim to deliver something a bit different. This time, we present to you a radio adaptation of “Rope”, a 1948 American psychological crime thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton.
In our story, just before hosting a dinner party, Philip Morgan and Brandon Shaw strangle a mutual friend to death with a piece of rope, purely as a Nietzsche-inspired philosophical exercise. Hiding the body in a chest upon which they then arrange a buffet dinner, the pair welcome their guests, including the victim’s oblivious fiancée and the college professor whose lectures inadvertently inspired the killing.
The Cast (In Order of Appearance):

Brandon Shaw – Thomas Larsen
Phillip Morgan – Geoff Wells
Mrs. Wilson – Chris Wells
Kenneth Lawrence – Kip Coon
Janet Walker – Ally Bockay
Mr. Henry Kentley – Jerome Malauskas
Mrs. Anita Atwater – Kim Bockay
Rupert Cadell – Chris Bockay
Man on Street – Baba Gonesh