For the lovers of drama...

BLU FM has recently revived its radio drama group, with numerous plays and readings soon to be on the airwaves. These productions feature both presenters, members, and people in the community. We especially like to promote local works to be recorded at BLU FM, and any budding authors out there are always welcome to share their ideas or finished pieces with us.

So what's happening?

One of our current projects is a radio adaptation of Tim Sanford's Contact, staged by the Brook Community Theatre in August 2002. Recording is currently underway and we'll keep you up to date with the process on this website. Contact revolves around the Vietnam War and shows the conflict through the eyes of a typical Australian family whose son is conscripted. The play shows the changes the young twenty-year-old goes through as he experiences the fear and horror of the war and the effect it has on his family back home.

Contact is a deeply moving but often funny play which mirrors the way Aussie troops struggled to maintain their sense of humour as the best weapon against the trauma of battle. It explores the desperately strained relationships between the family members and their shifting perceptions as the conflict progresses. Finally, it proves that war is a secret which only soldiers can share.

The radio script is very close to the stage version, but now with a narrator, sound effects and additional dialogue to achieve the same powerful effect that the stage play had - but without the visuals. It features the majority of the original cast and is written and directed by local resident Tim Sanford.