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NEWS 35 Oakville Players bring back the golden age of radio Robin S ad avoy /M e tro land A recent radio play production of A Christmas Carol, featuring (left to right), Greg Proctor, Rikki Wright, Kate Hamilton, Diana Barbosa, Muneer Malik-Noor. The Oakville Players present the final radio show of their season next week at the Palermo Schoolhouse. The golden age of radio is back thanks to the Oak­ ville Players. As part of their season, the oldest not-for-profit community theatre group in town, is re-creating those vintage shows, popu­ lar in the 1930s and 40s when radio was the only entertainment medium available at home. The Players' third and final radio play of the sea­ son is next week with the production of the 'screw­ ball comedy' His Girl Fri­ day, at the Palermo School- house, 2431 Dundas St. W. Actors take the stage in period costume and talk in­ to a Super 55 microphone, "that looks like the front of a car grill," said Michelle LaHaise, Players' executive producer. Each of the actors does anywhere from one to five character voices. There's even a foley artist, who cre­ ates the sound effects to complement the script, and strategic pauses by the ac­ tors to accommodate those sounds. "There's a table in the middle of the room with various objects, usually household objects," said LaHaise. If the sounds of a busy office are required, the fo­ ley artist taps away on a typewriter. Need thunder to set the mood? Shake a piece of aluminum. "There are about 20 dif­ ferent sound effects throughout the play. The goal is you can sit there and close your eyes and imag­ ine if you were listening to it in the 40s." The Players have moved their radio play presenta­ tions, which have been run­ ning for just over a year, to the schoolhouse, operated by the Trafalgar Township Historical Society, to bring awareness to the historic building in north Oakville, and heighten the experi­ ence of a radio play, said LaHaise. "We're trying to bring the experience of the audi­ ence being in a studio dur­ ing a radio play in that time. Once they see one, we tend to have them come back to see the rest." The retro productions also include live jingles during intermission, but with a modern twist as they are written and scored by the Players to feature spon­ soring local businesses. In the future, the thea­ tre group plans to write its own radio plays, more cur­ rent in nature, she said. The actors find the ra­ dio plays appealing be­ cause it's a short commit­ ment with only a month's rehearsal and there's not a lot of memorizing of lines because they perform with a script in hand. "They have a lot of fun with it because of all of the voices. It's also a great way to get into theatre as well because you're not acting in front of a huge audience - it's maybe an audience of 40 to 50 people." 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