12/28 Update (STRANGERS IN PARADISE, BEAUTIES AND THE BEAST and EILEEN THORNE, FREELANCE LAB ASSISTANT)

Good afternoon, everyone!  I hope you enjoyed an...unusual but joyful Christmas Day this past Friday.

Public Domain Comics Theater Comics For Your Ears #1 (available here) is still on sale for $5.  If you’ve got a surfeit of Christmas or other holiday cash, please mosey on over to our temporary Pop-up Shop!

Those of you who have been following Strangers In Paradise: The Audio Drama (and there are a lot of you; our first episode has been downloaded a thousand times since its debut on Black Friday!) shouldn’t be worried that there are only three more episodes of this season to go.  This weekend, Thomas Deja begun the task of adapting the second book in Terry Moore’s classic, I Dream of You, and he actually got a little bit ahead, finishing the first episode in a matter of hours!  The plan is to begin record our second season starting in February with episodes dropping every Friday starting March 27th, 2021.*

That doesn’t mean we’re going dark three weeks from this Friday.  We’ve got Death Code: Ninja and the Spacehawk episode of Public Domain Comics Theater later in January.  There’ll be another PDCT this winter that adapts ‘The Pit of Horror’ from Adventures Into Darkness #7.  And then there’s our first 8TW After Dark production (dropping on Valentine’s Day), Beauties and The Beast, and our first Eileen Thorne: Freelance Lab Assistant serial!

Beauties and The Beast started out as our second VHS Box Theater...but it sort of ran away from itself and became something weirder (I have not seen the original film, but I am pretty sure there is no Sumerian Fire Demon Bird in it), as well as more....adult.  We had already come up with the 8TW After Dark line for a project that’s in stasis--if it ever gets greenlit, you’re going to love it--to represent productions that may be a little more violent, profane or overall adult than our usual audience.  As Beauties contains audio nudity, frank language and, ummmm, a sex scene between a human and a cryptid...well, it became obvious this had to be put behind the beaded curtain at the back of our theater.  

And we’re proud to report that the first part of our first adventure featuring Ms. Thorne, ‘The Cross-Cut Saw of Time,’ is in the can and scheduled for recording later in January.  We’re aiming for a late February/early March release for this serialized story, which will see Eileen and her new...friend? (she did try to remove Eileen’s face when they first met, after all) Dr. Leda Marsh venturing into The Quantum Clocoa to confront her evil twin sister, Elaine!  What’s a Quantum Clocoa, you ask?  You’ll know soon enough!  It’ll be a rollicking adventure in questionable science in the tonuge-through-cheek 8TW style!

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*--We are casting for several key roles in I Dream of You, especially Darcy Parker.  We encourage any aspiring voice actors to contact us at ocadecagonagontheaterworks@gmail.com.  Keep in mind that, due to rights issues, SiP is strictly a fan work.  Guidelines on how to audition in general for us can be found here