Synopsis:

‘’Talk Radio is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play written by Eric Bogosian, based on a concept by Bogosian and Tad Savinar. It centres around Barry Champlain, a Cleveland-area radio talk-show host on the eve of his radio show's national syndication. Champlain is a provocateur shock-jock, whose constant espousal of his inflammatory views and ceaseless hectoring of his callers and listeners reaps equal parts love and hate. Thousands of listeners tune in every night for his rants against contemporary America and the riotous insults he throws at callers. But on the other side of the microphone, the line between persona and personality becomes blurred. The play becomes less about the program and focuses more on the inner struggles of its host and how he has become incapable of connection beyond his phone lines, beyond the persistent calls of his eccentric, foolish, often adoring, often despising but never indifferent, listeners – beyond the people who allow Champlain to, as his operator explains, think of himself as God.’’

 Photo by Albert Cheung. 

 Photo by Albert Cheung.  

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