Saturday Night Radio Drama - Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova -

First Metis Man of Odesa part 1

First Metis Man of Odesa part 2

Interview with Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova

A real-life love story that spans continents, a pandemic and an invasion

Matt, a Canadian Metis playwright, falls for Mariya, a Ukrainian actor, during a theatre workshop in Kyiv. They kindle a year-long romance through emails before meeting in Toronto, igniting a whirlwind love affair. But as they face the challenges of a long-distance relationship, doubts creep in for both. Just before the pandemic hits, they receive life-altering news, testing the strength of their bond and the viability of their future together.

Rod Serling always said he loved working at the end of the "golden age" or radio drama in the U.S. because it was so cheap to produce the owners of the radio station didn't care what he did so he could write pretty much what he liked.  Audio drama is, if anything, freer than that because it's even cheaper to produce and the audio equipment now is far easier to use and produces much better sound without having to have or be a really good technician or engineer.  So writers are freer to produce unusual stories and try new things.   A lot of it is pretty bad, but that's true of the most expensive medium with the most control,  the movies, TV shows, stage shows.   I'm going through the PlayMe collection of audio drama from the Canadian Broadcasting Company and may be posting more of them.