Late Night Radio

In the dusk light of a hayfield, a row of cars are parked facing an empty wooden frame, their radios tuned to an FM broadcast. As the radio announcer interviews a radical poet about the end of the world, a spectacle emerges from the nearby trees. A sunflower opens its eye, a raccoon strikes up the orchestra, and the world outside of our vehicles creeps into our consciousness through sound, image, poetry and song. Dancing in the interplay between dusk and night, hope and grief, The North Barn Theatre Collective contemplates the consequences of a pandemic, our interrelatedness to the non-human world and our collective stumbling into the unknown, both together and apart.

Late Night Radio was experienced as a drive-in performance, allowing audiences to witness live theatre in a socially distant format. It was North Barn Theatre’s first theatrical production and took place in the Spring and Summer of 2020 in hayfields in Ohio West, Antigonish, and Canning, Nova Scotia and in New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island.

Artists:

Laura Stinson and Ian McFarlane: co-creators, performers

Lily Falk & Franziska Glen (Ohio West production): performers

Noella Murphy (Antigonish and Canning production): performer

Megan Stewart (New Glasgow production): performer

Acknowledgments:

Janey Humphreys, Debbie & Brian Smith, Barra McNeil, Debi Stevenson, Adnan Saciragic, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, River Clyde Arts