arch obolers plays Archives - Host Your Own Old Time Radio Drama https://weirdworldstudios.com/tag/arch-obolers-plays/ Drama for the dinner table Sat, 08 Apr 2017 03:07:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 77634614 Audio Showcase # 17 – Arch Oboler’s Plays – Johnny Got His Gun https://weirdworldstudios.com/audio-showcase-17-arch-oblers-plays-johnny-got-gun/ https://weirdworldstudios.com/audio-showcase-17-arch-oblers-plays-johnny-got-gun/#respond Fri, 11 Jul 2014 23:44:27 +0000 http://weirdworldstudios.com/?p=959 Hi folks, This is our audio drama showcase where we discuss great public domain audio dramas on a weekly basis. If you are subscribed to our newsletter and registered on our site you will have free access to these great audio downloads. Today we showcase the genius of Arch Obler, one of the truly great […]

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This is our audio drama showcase where we discuss great public domain audio dramas on a weekly basis. If you are subscribed to our newsletter and registered on our site you will have free access to these great audio downloads.
Today we showcase the genius of Arch Obler, one of the truly great radio dramatists of his time. Obler consistently set the standard against which audio drama was to be judged through his innovative and daring plays. In this anthology (Arch Obler’s Plays) he regularly took material that was considered impossible to dramatise and turned it into riveting drama. Highly controversial in its day, Johnny Got His Gun, the story of returned soldier trapped in a body without sight, and having lost all of his limbs, is harrowing listening by any standard. Obler does give the story a more upbeat ending than is provided by the book it is based on (Johnny finally learns to communicate with the outside world through morse code instead of (more faithful to the original material) pleading, unheard to be euthenased).
This is not cheerful fair, but is nonetheless a brilliant piece of audio drama!

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