– FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –
The One Act Players Release Version of the
Classic Horror Tale THREE SKELETON KEY for Halloween 2004
CONTACT
Glenn A. Carlson
director(at)oneact.org
www.oneact.org
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, OCTOBER 12, 2004 — The One Act Players, a San Francisco-based voice acting troupe, announce the Halloween release their latest audio theatre production, a recreation of the classic “old time radio” horror tale, Three Skeleton Key. One Act (www.oneact.org) will distribute Three Skeleton Key via Internet download and limited edition CD.
One Act’s Three Skeleton Key is a full digital stereo recording, directed by Glenn Carlson, and featuring performances by Carlson as well as One Act stalwarts Scot Crisp (Sherlock Holmes) and John Parsons (Flash Gordon). Augmented by newly created sound effects and an original score composed and performed by John Clark Stiefel, our production hopes to garner an Ogle Award for best horror recording of 2004.
"Picture this place. A bare, black rock, one hundred fifty feet long, maybe forty wide. That’s at low tide. At high tide, just the lighthouse, rising one hundred ten feet straight up out of the ocean. And all around it the swirling water. Gray-green, scum dappled, warm as soup. And swarming with gigantic bat-like devil fish, great violet schools of Portuguese man-o-war … and yes, sharks, the big ones, the fifteen footers. And if that weren’t enough there was a hot, dank rotten smelling wind that came at us day and night off the jungle swamps of the mainland. A wind that smelled like … death. A wind that smelled the slow and frightful death that came one night to this bare, black rock."
With those words, one of broadcast's scariest tales began, and for thirty minutes, listeners in radio's "golden age" sat transfixed and horrified – an experience audio theatre audiences of today can share with the past. Ahhhh, but modern recording technology now allows for even greater horror. First adapted by James Poe from the 1937 Esquire short story by George Toudouze, our story tells the tale of three lighthouse keepers stationed off the coast of French Guyana in the 1930s. Their quiet if not monotonous life tending a lonely lighthouse is shattered one night by the arrival of a multitude of ravenous, flesh-eating ... RATS.
The San Francisco-based One Act Players produce studio recordings, and present on-air (radio and Internet) broadcasts of old time radio classics and adaptations of classic and contemporary material. The Players are comfortable genre-hoppers, embracing science fiction, mystery, drama, and comedy with equal enthusiasm and aplomb. More information about the organization and the Players themselves can be found at the group’s web site www.oneact.org.
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