Peck School of the Arts planned to stage John Millington Synge’s “Playboy of the Western World” in 2020, but then the coronavirus pandemic intervened. Faced with the obstacles of staging a performance amid continuing pandemic protocols, Peck decided to do something radical — to reconfigure the production as a radio play.
“When we use the term radio, we’re not talking about 96.5 WKLH,” said Chris Guse, the sound designer and UWM Sound and Scenic Production associate professor. “We’re talking about what radio was in the ’30s and ’40s as much more of a human experience. The intimacy of that, the closeness of the action, makes it feel very personal.”
The play will be posted online on April 28.
