SmorgShow Theater: Rope

We are so excited to finally present our latest radio play that we have been working on since August. Normally the SmorgShow players re-enact classic radio dramas, but in this episode, we aim to deliver something a bit different. This time, we present to you a radio adaptation of “Rope”, a 1948 American psychological crime thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton.
In our story, just before hosting a dinner party, Philip Morgan and Brandon Shaw strangle a mutual friend to death with a piece of rope, purely as a Nietzsche-inspired philosophical exercise. Hiding the body in a chest upon which they then arrange a buffet dinner, the pair welcome their guests, including the victim’s oblivious fiancée and the college professor whose lectures inadvertently inspired the killing.

The Cast (In Order of Appearance):

Brandon Shaw – Thomas Larsen
Phillip Morgan – Geoff Wells
Mrs. Wilson – Chris Wells
Kenneth Lawrence – Kip Coon
Janet Walker – Ally Bockay
Mr. Henry Kentley – Jerome Malauskas
Mrs. Anita Atwater – Kim Bockay
Rupert Cadell – Chris Bockay
Man on Street – Baba Gonesh