Types of radio plays
| Realism - slice-of-life? raw realism? more stylised? |
Adaptation |
Soap |
cops and robbers or crims or Brit-crim or gangster |
| Non-realism |
'Dear Diary' play and Audio Diary including change-of-life
woman protagonist |
Monologue or Linked Monologues |
rom-com (romantic comedy) |
| Drama-documentary |
Segment (radio drama) |
Experimental |
vampires |
| Feature - including fiction (radio drama) elements |
Improvised and 'scratch' radio drama |
Comedy |
ghosts |
| Soundscape |
Experimental - wordless radio piece |
Spy thriller |
Slasher and horror |
| comedy - carry-on |
Religious |
Western |
'Film noir' |
| musical |
children's interest |
sports |
war |
| domestic comedy or mixed comedy-serious (often woman partner
protagonist) |
'screwball comedy' |
musical biography |
fairy tale |
| 'survival story' (war, safari, and disaster) |
'fantastic genres', including fantasy, horror and science
fiction |
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NOW - make a storyboard
See Adaptations
Next - microphone
positions
Learn about radio drama on this site along with my book
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Beck, Alan, Radio Acting, London: A & C Black
(1997) ISBN 0-7136-4631-4
To Index 'A' to 'Z' for this site - use to
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This site is 'Radio Drama Techniques - Training as a radio drama director'.
This is part of a complete curriculum of scripts, techniques (acting
& directing & post-production & genre styles), advice, sound
files - effects and atmoses (with no copyright and so free to use), detailed
script commentaries, etc. You are welcome to use these sites with no copyright
restriction.