When Johnny Came Home: A Radio Play

Playwright: Robert Sugarman
Director: Vincent Tatro
Technical Director: Billy Trask

WRTC will present this play in the style of a radio play, and it will release it live on 3/31/23, both on Youtube and the WRTC website.

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Plot: 1948. World War II is over. Syracuse University in upstate New York is expanding to accommodate returning soldiers taking advantage of the GI Bill which offers them a subsidized education. On a bare stage, with minimal props, scenes shift rapidly as the six characters become involved in each other lives and in the Progressive Party campaign of Henry Wallace for the US Presidency.

Character Breakdown: 
CLARICE, 20 (Female-Identifying) A Jazz Singer

SAM, 21 (Male-Identifying), a painter studying at Syracuse University on the GI Bill.

SUSAN(Female-Identifying), 23, Sam’s sister, a voice student at the University

HANK CARNOVSKY (Male-Identifying), a journalism student at the University on the GI Bill.
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MARGE CARNVOSKY (Female-Identifying) Hank’s Wife