Episodes
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GRIEF IS THE PRICE WE PAY FOR LOVE
Strada Drama: GRIEF IS THE PRICE WE PAY FOR LOVE A distraught woman in her 50s has just left her beloved father, who has sadly died from a heart attack. Still trying to come to terms with this herself, she now faces and dreads the potentially devastating moment when she tells her late Dad's wife,...
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GETS ON MY GOAT
Strada Drama: GETS ON MY GOAT GETS ON MY GOAT is a podcast from Strada Drama’s originator Thom McKeown - with actors voicing his irascible moaning grievances about contemporary life in a humorous format. The rants cover topics like snow, wasps, restaurants, cliches, shopping, etiquette, modern…
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PERCY GIVES NOTES
Strada Drama: PERCY GIVES NOTES Percy Wynn, a rather camp, effeminate and flamboyantly enthusiastic individual, was once an assistant stage manager with the Ipswich and Suffolk Dramatic Society, but due to an unfortunate ‘personal’ incident, he felt it best to leave and move to pastures new. He…
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THE PAPER ROSE
Strada Drama: THE PAPER ROSE A now-single man is still attempting to come to terms with his emotions, as his girlfriend has left and ended their relationship. In an effort to console himself, he's been playing maudlin country and western music in his flat. One evening, he notices a postcard has...
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RETRIBUTION
Strada Drama presents: RETRIBUTION Set in the latter years of the 1970s, a brutal murder has been perpetrated against a black man in Yorkhire, England. Upon a tip-off, the police have arrested, under dubious and highly unorthodox methods, a young man, Michael Gallagher, on suspicion of having...
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A NIGHT IN
Strada Drama: A NIGHT IN Ireland – in a small location named Braniel on the south-east corner of Belfast - during the Covid pandemic. Married couple (Irish) Liam Flanagan and his English wife Beccy, are in mid-disagreement about dinner, amongst several other things. Unfortunately due to the then...
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THE FUNERAL
Strada Drama: THE FUNERAL A slightly camp funeral director/undertaker sits with a lower-working class Glasgow husband and his aspirational wife (who has delusions of a middle class existence) at the dining table of their home. The husband has a gruff, working-class Glasgow accent. The wife's…
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PATER NOSTER
Strada Drama: PATER NOSTER A mother and daughter begin a conversation. Family affairs, intertwined with melancholic recollections, ambiguous resentments and dark secrets slowly begin to unravel between the pair, leading to a shocking and unexpected conclusion. Cast: FREDA MACDONELL as Lorraine...
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BARKING
Strada Drama: BARKING He is addressing Nathan - but what is the source of this lengthy utterance, and by whom - and why? Written Edited and Performed by Thom McKeown A Strada Drama Audio Production © 2019
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BLAME
Strada Drama: BLAME The plays opengs in a courtroom, where a woman is being examined by a solicitor, with regard to serious charges against her husband. These are - the murder of their young son, and of rape and multiple instances of domestic abuse including grievous bodily harm against the wife....
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A GREY AREA
Strada Drama: A GREY AREA In a societal reversal, a caucasian man and a man of darker-skin begin a heated debate on culture and race in this alternative world. Written Edited and Performed by Thom McKeown A Strada Drama Audio Production © 2025
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CRUSH
Strada Drama: CRUSH In the empty classroom of a school is Robert Duffy, a sensitive and decent school teacher - and Sandra McNamara, a diligent and fiercely intelligent teenage student in his class - who both become potential participants in a seemingly impossible romance. Cast: NOEL FRANSON as...
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HOW DARE YOU!
Strada Drama: HOW DARE YOU! Chatty chums Larry and Fiona meet up for a coffee and chin-wag about their mutual recent supermarket outing, and a slight tiff develops! Cast: ANDREW MARTIN, MAGGIE JOYCE Written Directed and Edited by Thom McKeown © 2024
About this show
A series of original productions for audio from acclaimed performimg arts group: Strada Drama
Hosted by
Thom McKeown
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