A long-lost radio play about a monstrous “Chicken Heart” beats back to life tonight The Oswego Players’ opens “Foretold Tales: An Anthology of Terror”.
The anthology series will be broken into nightly themes or “episodes”: Mad Scientists, Future Tense, and Nine Lives. Included among the Mad Scientists Friday night offering is a re-creation of Arch Oboler’s legendary lost Light’s Out program “The Chicken Heart”.
Broadcast live on February 23, 1938, the weird tale about the disembodied heart that escapes the laboratory, grows, and devours all in its path no surviving recording. Oboler himself did a 7-minute version recreation in 1962, but the original is the stuff of legends.
Along with the murderous fowl, the night of Mad Scientists will also include George Bamber’s 1959 Suspense story “Return to Dust”, and “I of Newton”.
Since each performance is an “episode” in this event, a special ticketing price is being offered. All seats will be $13 each per performance, with a three-day ticket for the entire event of just $26. Tickets may be purchased online at www.oswegoplayers.org , or by calling the theater box office at (315) 343-5138.
This project is made possible through the CNY Arts Grants for Regional Arts and Cultural Engagement regrant program thanks to a New York State Senate Initiative supported by the NYS Legislature, the Office of the Governor and administered by the New York State Council on the Arts.