Charles Dickens’ The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

Adapted for radio by Cynthia Meier from the 1836 short story

Featuring Joseph McGrath as the Narrator, Hunter Hnat as the Goblin King, Ryan Parker Knox as gravedigger Gabriel Grub, and Carley Elizabeth Preston in multiple roles, with original music composed and performed by Russell Ronnebaum. Directed by Christopher Johnson.

December 2023: NPR and Arizona Public Media present Arizona Spotlight and a little-known holiday story by Charles Dickens.

This is our fifth radio drama presented in collaboration with Mark McLemore at Arizona Public Media.

To hear The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, click here and scroll to the 17:07 mark on the Arizona Spotlight recording near the top of the page.

Listen to an obscure work by Charles Dickens that first appeared as part of Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers in 1836, seven years before A Christmas Carol. The Rogue Theater's Rogue Radio troupe presents a radio drama adaptation of The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, a holiday story with a frightening twist!

Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost

Adapted by Cynthia Meier from the 1887 short story

Featuring Hunter Hnat as the Narrator, Aaron Shand as Hiram B. Otis, Carley Elizabeth Preston as Mrs. Unmey, Cynthia Meier as Mrs. Lucrezia Otis, Joseph McGrath as Sir Simon, and Bryn Booth as Virginia Otis. Directed by Christopher Johnson.

October 2021: NPR and Arizona Public Media present Arizona Spotlight’s 13th Annual Haunted Halloween Show, including the Rogue Radio adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s comedic supernatural story, The Canterville Ghost. 

This is our fourth radio drama presented in collaboration with Mark McLemore at Arizona Public Media.

To hear The Canterville Ghost, click here and scroll to about 15:35 on the Arizona Spotlight recording near the top of the page, or go further down the page to where there is a dedicated sound file.

This Rogue Theatre presentation was supported in part by The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, and Marianne Leedy.

Find out how a menacing phantom meets his match when a young American girl and her family move into his ancient castle, where a curse demands that he restlessly wander the halls for eternity

Sarah Orne Jewett’s A White Heron

Adapted by Cynthia Meier from the 1886 short story

Featuring Bryn Booth as Sylvia, Carley Elizabeth Preston as Mrs. Tilley, Hunter Hnat as The Stranger and Cynthia Meier as the Narrator. Directed by Joseph McGrath. Music adapted and performed by Russell Ronnebaum.

Dear Rogues,

We're thrilled to invite you to listen to the Rogue Radio drama of A White Heron on KUAT, our local NPR station. 

Sarah Orne Jewitt's story is a moving tale of a little girl caught in the conflict between human profit and nature. The story is frequently anthologized and is sometimes considered the beginning of ecological literature in the United States. This is our third radio drama presented in collaboration with Mark McLemore at Arizona Public Media.

To hear A White Heron, click here and scroll to about 8:45 on the Arizona Spotlight recording near the top of the page, or go further down the page to where there is a dedicated sound file.

Thank you, as always, dear friends.

— Cindy Meier, Managing & Associate Artistic Director

This Rogue Theatre presentation was supported in part by The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, and Marianne Leedy.

Whatever treasures were lost to her, woodlands and summer-time, remember! Bring your gifts and graces and tell your secrets to this lonely country child!

Kate Chopin’s Desirée’s Baby

Adapted by Christopher Johnson from the 1893 short story

Featuring Carley Elizabeth Preston, Christopher Johnson and Cynthia Meier

Dear Rogues,

We have been awash in Kate Chopin’s writing these last few months. An early feminist voice of the late 19th century, Chopin writes from a unique and compelling perspective. After we completed The Awakening, we turned to one of her most famous short stories to share with listeners on NPR.

To hear our second edition of Rogue Radio on NPR, click here and scroll to about 15:08 on the Arizona Spotlight recording.

Thank you, as always, dear friends.

— Cindy Meier, Managing & Associate Artistic Director

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

We are very excited to share with you the audio adaptation by Christopher Johnson of Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel The Awakening, performed by The Rogue ensemble.

The story centers on Edna Pontellier, a married woman, spending the summer in Grand Isle, a holiday resort popular with the wealthy inhabitants of nearby New Orleans.

Edna is vacationing with her husband, Léonce, and their two sons at the cottages of Madame Lebrun. Léonces’s frequent business-related absences mar his domestic life with Edna. Consequently, Edna spends most of her time with her friend Adèle Ratignolle, a married Creole who epitomizes womenly elegance and charm.

Edna’s relationship with Adèle begins Edna’s process of “awakening.” The process accelerates as Edna comes to know Robert Lebrun, the elder, single son of Madame Lebrun. Robert is known among the Grand Isle vacationers as a man who chooses one woman each year—often a married woman—to whom he then plays “attendant” all summer long. This summer, he devotes himself to Edna, and the two spend their days together lounging and talking by the shore...

For an optimal experience, we recommend listening with speakers rather than headphones.

Virginia Woolf’s
The Mark on the Wall

featuring
Ryan Parker Knox,
Joseph McGrath, and
Cynthia Meier

Dear Rogues,

Last January, long before the pandemic hit Arizona, Joe and I met with Mark McLemore at Arizona Public Media to talk about the concept of Rogue Radio—a series of short 10-minute plays broadcast on NPR.

Our timing couldn’t have been better.

We are thrilled to share with you our first edition of Rogue Radio on NPR! Just click here and scroll to about 14:30 on the Arizona Spotlight recording.

Wishing you all the best, dear Rogues!

Cindy Meier, Managing Director

Oscar Wilde’s 
The Importance of Being Earnest

Ryan Parker Knox as John Worthington
Holly Griffith as Gwendolen Fairfax
Hunter Hnat as Algernon Moncrieff
Bryn Booth as Cecily Cardew
Carley Preston as Miss Prism
Joseph McGrath as Doctor Chausable
with
Aaron Shand as Lane / Merriman
and
Cynthia Meier as Lady Bracknell