#Shirley temple in the bluest eye serial

DiamondвЂ™s award-winning adaptation of Toni MorrisonвЂ™s The Bluest Eye has instead surfaced four months late as AuroraвЂ™s latest foray into radio drama. Originally scheduled to be performed live in December 2020, in commemoration of the novelвЂ™s 50-year anniversary, Lydia R. Aurora Theatre Company has turned to the radio play format as their preferred medium for pandemic producing. One of the first theaters to dive into webcasting with their вЂњAurora ConnectsвЂќ interview and panel discussion series, Aurora was also one of the first to tackle the development of a new original radio play, enlisting the talents of Bay Area-based playwrights Lauren Gunderson, Cleavon Smith and Jonathan Spector to create The Flats, a three-part series set in a sheltered-in-place Berkeley apartment building. And since podcasting has given rise to a whole new generation of radio play lovers in the last decade, it feels only natural that theater-makers would turn to it in the absence of live performance.ДЄlthough Aurora Theatre optimistically announced its 2020-2021 in-person season in late March 2020-a season that was to be newly-appointed artistic director Josh CostelloвЂ™s first-they were soon forced to reconsider their creative output for the year.

While many of these migrated to television in the 1950s, the radio play continued on, with some of the most renowned playwrights and storytellers of the day writing work specifically for the medium.

#Shirley temple in the bluest eye serial

In fact, ever since radioвЂ™s golden age itвЂ™s been a conduit for storytellers of every genre, including family comedies, serial dramas, and edgy thrillers. In a curious twist on the classic, prescient Buggles tune, while video may have killed the radio star, radio has been a lifeline for theater-makers seeking platforms for their creative work during the shutdown of live performance.