An annual theater festival is returning to Icebox Radio Theater.
The third annual Bundled Up Theater Festival, which is a live Internet broadcast, will feature two original plays and two classics of old-time radio. The event starts at 7 p.m. Feb. 28.
Suspense is the theme of this year's festival, according to a news release, and ghost stories, eerie curses and murder is on the menu. The festival lineup includes:
- “Cat Wife" from "Lights Out." In the heat of an argument a man calls his wife a "heartless cat" over and over so convincingly that a bizarre transformation takes place. When the neighbors come complaining about the loud cat that’s moved in, the man is faced with a horrible choice.
- “Footprints” is a world premiere from the IBRT. When a writer retreats to the family cabin to try and get her career back on track, the local ghost story seems like the perfect inspiration - until unexplained footprints start appearing under her window. Is her imagination out of control? Or is there something to be afraid of in the woods?
- “Bush Pilot” is another world premiere from the IBRT. When much of the north was still unexplored, intrepid bush pilots connected remote communities with vital mail and supplies. But it was never easy flying the frozen north, and it took a unique brand of man to do the job safely. Meet Mark Black: Bush Pilot in the first two episodes of this new IBRT series.
- “The Strange Sisters” from "The Whistler," is tale of three sisters, one who inherited their father's money, and another who manipulates the third one into a plan for murder in this classic episode from the golden age of radio.
