Bricolage’s Midnight Radio program is a long-time fan favorite that takes the form of a classic 1940s radio broadcast complete with commercial parodies, musical underscoring, and live Foley sound effects.
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“What it does is make performance art out of the way radio plays used to be performed, before recording technology made the on-the-spot creation of sound effects unnecessary. Half the fun is watching the Bricolage “Foley artists” use pebbles, shoes, fabric, wind machines, and thunder sheets to create sound effects which, when you close your eyes, sound like the real thing.”
“You can return to the days of radio by closing your eyes and allowing the cast of five and musicians of the Ortner-Roberts Trio to bring the still-chilling sci-fi thriller to life. But that would mean missing the projections of bygone Pittsburgh and the efforts of Carpenter and Dixon as they create the sound effects of Martian activity destroying life as we know it. Either way, it’s a captivating Halloween treat”
“In 2003, the forward-thinking little stage company called Bricolage glimpsed its future. And its future was radio’s past.”