Springline Radio Players

Mix five women cousins of a certain age with one book, one secret, and several glasses of wine for a fun and enjoyable visit. But please remember - what happens at the Cousins' Book Club, stays at the Cousins' Book Club. We are pleased to present our third audio play from the pen of Patricia Motto. Enjoy.

Sarah and Max have a love story. Well, maybe they have a "love" story, or maybe they have a "like" story. Where does the line exist between those two concepts exactly? And, in the end, isn’t the real question what is enough? This is our second audio play from the pen of Patricia Motto who lives happily with her shelter dog, Fosse, in Elmhurst in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, USA where she also choreographs for and dances with The Tree Town Tappers.

This is our second audio play written by Chris and we are grateful for him allowing us to present this to our world-wide audience. Chris lives and works in Alberta, Canada and more scripts can be viewed on his website - www.communitytheatreplays.com.

We are pleased to introduce Patricia Motto to our Springline Radio Players website. Patricia’s first published work came in the Byford Booster when, at the age of six, she wowed her teacher with two complete correctly punctuated sentences. Since then, she has at various times taught composition at the college level, made sort of a living as a freelance writer, and, because she became fond of nice meals out, graduated from law school and became an attorney specialising in sexual harassment. Her one act play, “The Cousins’ Book Club,” won major awards at the Watermelon One Act Festival in Maryland and was produced by the Open Door Playhouse in California. Another of her works, “The Best Friends’ Rule” was selected for production at the Dubuque Arts One Act Play Festival. Her work has also been featured at The Arizona Women’s Theatre. Patricia lives happily with her shelter dog, Fosse, in Elmhurst in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, USA where she also choreographs for and dances with The Tree Town Tappers.

"Hard Times" was written by Chris McKerracher and adapted for audio by John and David Hunter. Chris is a prolific author and playwright from the tiny town of Calmar in Alberta, Canada. He has an impressive collection of hilarious, inventive plays which have been performed for many enthusiastic audiences in the central Alberta region, as well as in the USA, across Canada, and now in the UK.

It is December 1937 and the acclaimed medium Felicity Fermington is immersed in seasonal preparations. However, a knock on her cottage door brings news of danger…..where will this lead, what will she do and will the spirits guide her? Karen McKivitt continues on from the highly successful audio play "The Lost Lamp of Lorrata". And there are more adventures to follow.

Burke and Hare, the most notorious killers in Scotland's history, were arrested in 1829 for the murder of sixteen people. During the trial, William Hare, after being given a promise of immunity, testified against his former "business" partner, James Burke. Amid a great public outcry, Hare escaped the gallows, was released from custody and then disappeared into the mists of history. But what happened to William Hare? Listen to find out his dark secret. Our audio play was written by Alan Kilpatrick, an Irish/Native American playwright who currently lives in Belgium with his wife and their three dogs. He is the author of some thirty plays which have been staged at the Autry National Center, Los Angeles; the Diversionary Theater and the La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego; the VSA Fourth St. Art Center and Adobe Theater, Albuquerque; the Alternative Theatre and the Horse Trader Theater, New York; the Blue Door Theater, Spokane; the Croydon Warehouse Theatre and the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London, the Troubadour Theatre Company, Brighton, UK ; and the Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Chicago. He received his professional training in film and television at Loyola Marymount University and studied playwriting at the Royal Court Theatre, London.

Box and Cox is a one act farce by John Maddison Morton and is based on a French one-act vaudeville, Frisette, which had been produced in Paris in 1846. The original play was used by Sir Arthur Sullivan for his comic opera, which he renamed "Cox and Box. Box and Cox was first produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 1 November 1847, billed as a "romance of real life." The play became popular and was revived frequently through the end of the nineteenth century, with occasional productions in the twentieth century.  Our adaption was written by Neville Teller and first broadcast across the USA in October 2015 in a production by Shoestring Radio Theatre, San Francisco.