Join us on WERA-LP 96.7 FM just about now (4:00pm ET) for a new six-part story for Through the Looking Glass, featuring voices from across the company. Andrew Lang’s rollicking self-aware fairy tale about a prince who is cursed to be too clever. This special pandemic production features recordings from throughout the Jabberwocky Audio troupe….
Read MoreThe classic German fairy tale “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” plus an appropriately clever Sicilian tale “The Cunning Shoemaker” “The Elves and the Shoemaker”by the Brothers Grimm, from their collection Kinder und Hausmärchen (1812)translated by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes (1823) “The Cunning Shoemaker”A tale from SicilyIncluded in Andrew Lang’s collection The Pink Fairy Book (1897) LISTEN TO…
Read MoreTune in to WERA-LP 96.7 FM just about now (4:00pm ET) for two additions to our series Through the Looking Glass. The classic German fairy tale “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” plus an appropriately clever Sicilian tale “The Cunning Shoemaker” “The Elves and the Shoemaker”by the Brothers Grimm, from their collection Kinder und Hausmärchen (1812)translated by Edgar…
Read MoreThe iconic French version of a fairy tale which has variants going back centuries in many parts of the world. Don’t worry: this has all the quality step-family shenanigans you’re seeking. LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Powered by RedCircle Length: 21:53 Rated AD-G for general audiencesContains thoughtless stepsisters and a rather cavalier attitude towards transmogrifying rodentia to be…
Read MoreWe didn’t get the idea of a crew boarding a derelict spaceship in a vacuum — wait, that didn’t come out right… Our live production of Nostromo 2: Electric Alien Boogaloo is based on the many tales of crews exploring derelict spacecraft, which inevitably leads to mayhem. Well the folks over at Generation Films know…
Read MoreTune in to WERA-LP 96.7 FM just about now (4:00pm ET) for the latest addition to our series Through the Looking Glass. The iconic French version of a fairy tale which has variants going back centuries in many parts of the world. Don’t worry: this has all the quality step-family shenanigans you’re seeking. LISTEN TO…
Read MoreThe English fairy tale of an enterprising young boy, a castle in the clouds, and some giants. It’s perhaps the best known of a series of “Jack Tales.” LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Powered by RedCircle Length: 24:07 Rated AD-G for general audiencesContains a cruel and murderous giant, a conspiratorial and duplicitous giantess, and broken necks, which arguably…
Read MoreSince we’re deep in the land of fairy tales with, it felt like a good time to some of the considerations we’ve had in adapting the stories you’re hearing on Through the Looking Glass. For the most part, we’ve tried to keep to the straight text from a particular translation or version wherever possible. There…
Read MoreTune in to WERA-LP 96.7 FM just about now (4:00pm ET) for the latest addition to our series Through the Looking Glass. Note: for this afternoon’s broadcast, Bjorn Munson, artistic director for Jabberwocky Audio Theater, has an additional message for our friends and neighbors in the DC region regarding the current protests going on in…
Read MoreThe classic German fairy tale of a brother, a sister, and a witch’s house in the deep, dark woods. LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Powered by RedCircle Length: 21:45 Rated AD-G for general audiencesContains a fearfully evil stepmother, arguably prejudiced ideas about witches and their eyesight, and lots of candy whose cleanliness is debatable since it’s being used…
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