War of the Worlds, Charlie style
His new production, as I mentioned before, is a devised performance based on the panic that followed Orson Welles'/Mercury Theater's radio drama, WAR OF THE WORLDS in 1939. It was inspired by a story I passed along to him that was told to me by the mother of a college friend, who lived the experience when she was a young, new mother in Chicago. Her husband was out of town that night, so she was alone in their apartment with her infant when she heard just enough of the radio broadcast to believe... Sign in to see full entry.