There’s a time and position for nonsense.

Lewis Carroll, having written one of the most most renowned literary works of nonsense—together with his “Jabberwocky” poem in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland—would most likely agree.

The Jabberwocky Audio Theater podcast is encouraged via and displays a few of that nonsense.

Not like maximum podcasts (fiction and nonfiction) which generally have just one podcast in line with podcast feed, Jabberwocky Audio Theater has six—4 presentations and two serials. They come with:

Quorum: Serial, Hardboiled Crime, Thriller

All the way through historical past, there has all the time been a chasm between the majority of humanity and the enigmatic circle who grasp true dominion—the ones whose affect stays shrouded, save for the uncommon circumstances when their designs pass into the out of doors global.

Rogue Tiger: Serial, Science Fiction, Motion/Journey

5,000 years into the longer term, in a nook of the galaxy the place Earth is now not recognized, people and a dozen different sentient races have cast a civilization. Spacers courageous the oceans of void between masses of worlds for energy, glory, and easy survival. That is the story of 1 band of spacers and their send: the Tyger.

Throughout the Taking a look Glass: Anthology, Delusion, Folklore

From “as soon as upon a time” to earlier than time started, Throughout the Taking a look Glass is an anthology sequence of dramatic readings and different variations in line with folklore and vintage fairy stories.

Via a Glass Darkly: Anthology, Suspense, Horror

Whether or not it’s ghosts from the previous to conceivable futures to a gift long gone improper, Via a Glass, Darkly is an anthology sequence of dramatic readings and different variations of vintage works.

Warfare of the Worlds 2018: Are living Efficiency, Science Fiction, Journey

An authentic adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel set within the Washington, DC space and carried out are living for a science fiction conference target audience.

Nostromo 2 Electrical Alien Boogaloo: Are living Efficiency, Science Fiction, Comedy

An homage and parody to all the ones tales you’ve learn and noticed a couple of staff exploring a derelict send… and the mayhem that inevitably ensues. Carried out are living in birthday celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the movie Alien and the TV sequence Dollar Rogers within the twenty fifth Century. 

“We put the entire podcasts on one feed as a result of we needed an episode to be launched every week,” stated Bjorn Munson, the creative director of Jabberwocky Audio Theater.

As complicated as this technique would possibly appear, Munson could also be directly to one thing—the podcast was once lately nominated for a Other folks’s Selection podcast award within the “storyteller drama” class.

A part of the explanation it’s so essential to the Jabberwocky Audio Theater staff to unlock a brand new weekly episode is since the podcast could also be on radio.

“If you understand about neighborhood get entry to tv from again within the day, I believe it was once round 2000, despite the fact that I’d have to substantiate, the FCC if truth be told spread out the spectrum to low energy FM so that you can have much more neighborhood programming,” Munson stated. “And one in every of our native cable get entry to stations simply jumped on it. It’s primarily based out of Arlington County, Virginia. So each Sunday at 4 p.m., we’ve both were given one thing new or a rebroadcast. And we’ve been doing that since 2018. Now, it IS low energy FM, so folks only a couple counties over aren’t going to listen to it. However however, with my background of rising up actually loving antique radio, it’s very thrilling.”

That love of antique radio was once a part of what impressed Munson to create Jabberwocky. “I grew up being attentive to the ones presentations, and was once bummed once I were given older and discovered folks weren’t making them anymore. Speedy ahead previous school, all the way through which I did theater and a few impartial filmmaking, and I discovered that numerous persons are the use of the similar gear we use to make indie movies to make fiction podcasts/audio dramas—the precise sort I beloved from long ago when. So, I determined to check out it, too, as it’s a type of storytelling that I actually, actually love. And I believed I may carry in combination a bunch of people that may do it beautiful darn smartly.”

What actually helped Munson get Jabberwocky off the bottom was once interested by it as a theater corporate.

“We’ve were given a core staff of fifty actors, writers, and musicians we’ve labored with who we strive and paintings into the quite a lot of presentations. We do have them audition, despite the fact that we expect they’ll be easiest for particular portions, as a result of we nonetheless need to listen how it’ll sound in addition to get some new voices concerned. What folks would possibly not know is the DC space is if truth be told a beautifully busy theater space. There are about 50 native skilled theatre corporations, and expectantly, they’ll all have the ability to ultimate during the pandemic. Now, should you come with Baltimore and Richmond, there’s almost certainly about 5,000 operating or aspiring actors. So, my objective, at the same time as we stay the core of folks I really like operating with, is to additionally provide a chance for brand new voices… and to keep growing as a theatre corporate in addition to a podcast.”

Munson nurtures the antique radio display/theater manufacturing power via having the actors document are living with an “old skool arrange that even contains song stands.”

Recently, Munson has some brand-new presentations within the works, as smartly. “We’ve were given plans for extra, at the side of some specials, and sure, they’ll all be at the similar pod feed.”

January 2021 Factor

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