My first opportunity to do any audio drama work came from a minister who was one of my mentors growing up. He and another minister in the church (the youth pastor at the time) created these CDs which were designed to help kids who were involved in Bible Quizzing with the United Pentecostal Church International. The company was called DoveNet and the audio CDs were called DoveTales. They consisted of three parts: A short 5-15 minute audio skit which incorporated the 15 or so verses the kids in the program were supposed to learn that week. A song that went along with each of those verses. A segment called "Repeat-After-Me" where an adult said each phrase of a verse, and a child repeated that phrase. The primary goal was to help kids learn the Scriptures that were included in each CD. The idea behind the stories at the beginning of each CD was that the story would end with some sort of cliff-hanger, and once a child had learned all the Scriptures from the first CD, he or ...
Recently, I contributed on an ATC podcast to a review of Joan of Arc . (Click the link to be taken to the Audio Theatre Central page where you can listen!) Joan of Arc is a person who has fascinated people for centuries for all kinds of different reasons. I had a cursory knowledge of her story from a gloss in a history textbook when I was in high school, and had recently listened to a short podcast with a few more details. This audio drama by Paul McCusker takes you there, and brilliantly places you in the position of the people who were trying to decide if she was legit or not. There are themes from this Catholic audio drama that make me uncomfortable with her story, but there are other things that seem clear as day, and exactly how God would work. The result was that this audio drama prompted good thoughts and conversation about following God no matter what people around you say, and being willing to allow God to work in unconventional ways. ...