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Special pre-show Halloween costume fashion show at 6:00pm! Featuring costumes from Center Stage Clothiers, LLC! Be sure to come early and check out these Spooktacular costumes!

7:00pm- Dracula: A re-imagined live radio show
For cast list visit: http://www.metropolitanperformingarts.org/dracula.html

Dracula, as a radio drama, is adapted from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same name. Mr. Stoker, an Irish writer and theatre manager, wrote his novel to address the fears and uncertainties of Victorian society in the late 19th century. Dracula continues to signify fears of the unnatural, and how abnormality can evolve from one source and infect the surrounding society with discord, misfortunes, and evil. In July 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air presented a radio drama adaption of Skoker's novel. Since then, the radio script has lain dormant...buried in a box....covered with earth....waiting to emerge. It was revived through arcane galvanic sciences and carful administrations of elixirs and tonics and is presented with the intent of sending a skittering up your spine, a preview of Halloween!

What is Re-Imagined Radio?
Re-Imagined Radio offers radio drama, both contemporary and from the Golden Age of Radio (1930s-1950s), as live performances featuring community voice actors, Foley artists, and other creative people. Performances are also live streamed on the Internet, extending community outreach to an international scale.

Re-Imagined Radio evolved from a digital storytelling course John Barber taught in 2013. The purpose was to investigate sound-based storytelling in the radio medium through live community performances. With the addition of live Internet streaming, Re-Imagined Radio has become a radio art—transmission art project.
Each Re-Imagined Radio performance is offered in a 1936 movie theatre. Community voice actors, Foley sound artists, and other creative people re-create radio dramas using original scripts. Digital SFX, music, visual backdrops, and social media provide new storytelling opportunities. Live audiences see, hear, and sometimes participate in sound-based radio narratives as they are re-created before their eyes and ears. Online audiences listen only, but in that listening radio sparks their imaginations like no other medium. The result: old medium, new engagement. Radio as never before seen, or heard.
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Partners include the historic Kiggins Theatre, in downtown Vancouver, WA; Metropolitan Performing Arts, Vancouver, WA; Nouspace Gallery & Media Lounge, an occasional, interactive, multimedia art and media gallery; and the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver.