Live Radio Play: The Dear Departed by Stanley Houghton Adapted by Bart Meehan

Overview

This March, The Mill Theatre tries something deliciously different: a live radio play, performed and recorded in front of an audience.
Their first radio play is The Dear Departed, a wickedly funny one-act comedy by British playwright Stanley Houghton, adapted for live radio performance. The play skewers middle-class respectability as two selfish sisters, Mrs Slater and Mrs Jordan, descend into chaos over inheritance, furniture, and the very convenient assumption that their elderly parent has become a burden. Sharp, absurd, and gleefully unkind, The Dear Departed exposes how quickly moral values crumble when money is involved. Light on content and high on laughs, this is a joyous, silly, and surprisingly biting comedy — and a rare chance to be part of a live audience as a radio play is made before your eyes. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the chaos, and leave having witnessed something you truly don't see (or hear) every day.