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Insight Presents (radio theatre company)
War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

14 Oct 2007 – 14 Oct 2007

Performance Dates

14 Oct 2007 – 14 Oct 2007

October 2007

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Details

Playwright
Howard Koch
Director
Rod Lewis
AddressPO Box 222, Edwardstown SA 5039
Don't miss this recording of radio's most infamous play. Presented and recorded for broadcast live on stage, with live sound effects and music.

HG Wells' ominous tale of alien invasion spread panic across America when it first aired in 1938. It made Orson Welles a household name and is still voted as the greatest radio play ever made.

Where will you be when the invasion returns…?

We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's, and yet as mortal as his own. We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

They said the chances of anything coming from Mars was a thousand to one. But in the thirty-ninth year of the twentieth century, they came…

Where will you be when the invasion arrives…? 

Bookings

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