{"id":3637,"date":"2010-04-21T18:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=3637"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:44:35","slug":"broadcasting-the-bard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2002\/summer02\/features\/wrbc-where-radio-builds-community\/broadcasting-the-bard\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcasting the Bard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 11, the Robinson Players theater group and WRBC made Maine radio history with the state&#8217;s first broadcast of an original production of Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>King Lear<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The play, the Robinson Players&#8217; dramatic premiere on radio, featured Professor of English Sanford Freedman in the title role and was directed and produced by Matteo Pangallo &#8217;03, of Salem, Mass. He was inspired by a 1994 BBC recording of the play featuring Sir John Gielgud, Dame Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, and other British actors of similar horsepower. &#8220;I was stunned by how powerful and effective the production was,&#8221; Pangallo explains. &#8220;It forced me to listen and <em>imagine<\/em> the world of the play. Because of that, it was far more believable than any stage version could have been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The May broadcast wasn&#8217;t live radio a la Orson Welles&#8217; Mercury Theatre. Broadcast on May 11, the performance was recorded in March in Pettigrew Hall, with Tahsin Alam at the sound board. Post-production was an arduous, professional-grade process whose dozen or so steps included editing for length, consistency, and pacing, and the addition of sound effects and music. &#8220;A segment that lasts five minutes in the final version can take up to half-an-hour to edit and mix!&#8221; Pangallo notes on the production&#8217;s Web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learonline.net\">www.learonline.net<\/a>. (The site also offers information for ordering the two-CD recording of the production.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 11, the Robinson Players theater group and WRBC made Maine&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":3636,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-3637","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10826,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3637\/revisions\/10826"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}