[NEohioPAL] 90.3 WCPN ideastream and Hiram College Collaborate to Present "The Machine Stops" - an Exclusive One-Hour Radio Drama

[Schuster, Jessica]

For Immediate Media Release

Friday, November 09, 2007

Contact: Jessica Schuster, Communications Specialist, ideastream, (216)
916-6134

     Tim Bryan, V.P. of Institutional Advancement, Hiram College, (330)
569-5288


 


90.3 WCPN ideastreamsm AND HIRAM COLLEGE COLLABORATE TO PRESENT 


"THE MACHINE STOPS" - AN EXCLUSIVE ONE-HOUR RADIO DRAMA 


Premieres Friday, November 16, 9pm on 90.3 WCPN; Re-airs Monday,
November 19, noon


 


 

90.3 WCPN ideastream and Hiram College have partnered together on the
production and broadcast of "The Machine Stops," a radio drama adapted
from the remarkably clairvoyant short story written by E.M. Forster in
1909. The one-hour AROUND NOON special premieres on Friday, November 16
at 9pm on 90.3 WCPN. (An encore presentation will air on Monday,
November 19 at noon.). 

 

Recorded in August in the Idea Center's Westfield Insurance(tm) Studio
Theatre before a live studio audience, the story was dramatized by the
local professional theater team of playwright Eric Coble, director David
Hansen and actors Nick Koesters, Rasheryl McCreary, Dawn Youngs, Jazmin
Corona and Tim Keo.  The production includes original music by local
composer Dennis Yurich.

 

"The Machine Stops" describes a world where life on the surface of the
earth is so inhospitable that the human population lives below ground in
small, hive-like apartments with all human communication moving through
"the machine."  The story focuses on two characters, Vashti and her son
Kuno, who live on opposite ends of the world.

 

"The Machine Stops" grew out of a symposium on Human Enhancement
sponsored by the Center for Literature, Medicine and the Biomedical
Humanities at Hiram College. Eric Coble, working with theater educator
Jodi Maile, led symposium participants in sessions responding to the
original story and his adaptation.  A few months later, in September
2005, a cast of professional actors performed a dramatic reading of "The
Machine Stops" for Cleveland's inaugural Ingenuity Festival. Shortly
after a second performance, Coble was approached by David Hansen, to
adapt the story for radio.  

 

Eric Coble and David Hansen will join Dee Perry during AROUND NOON
November 16 at noon for a preview of the broadcast airing at 9pm that
evening (and repeating November 19 at noon).

 

 

 

"The Machine Stops," dramatized by Eric Coble, is based on "The Machine
Stops" by E.M. Forster.

 

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mission to strengthen our communities by providing distinctive,
thought-provoking programs and services that enlighten, inspire, educate
and entertain. The organization was formed by the merger of public
broadcasting stations WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN in July of 2001. The
organization operates public television and radio stations in Cleveland
with an audience of some 2.8 million viewers and listeners, an
Educational Service group serving schools with nearly one half million
students and manages the Ohio Public Television and Radio Statehouse
News Bureau and Ohio Government Telecommunications in Columbus. For more
information, visit wviz.org or wcpn.org.

 

Founded in 1850, Hiram College continues today as one of the nation's
most respected liberal arts institutions. Hiram offers students
unmatched opportunities for study abroad and hands on learning through
an academic calendar which is unique to the nation. The College's
Tuition Guarantee makes college costs predictable. Hiram's Weekend
College enables working adults to earn their degree by taking classes on
alternate weekends. For more information, visit www.hiram.edu
<http://www.hiram.edu/> .

 

 

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