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Jane Frances Hirsh
Contemporary Playwright and Novelist
Radio Plays
Scripts written by Jane Frances Hirsh
Recorded at Hoffmann Studios
Occidental CA.
"Hot Rocks!"
Complete MP3
Short, funny tales of Life in a Band
Hot Rocks Do Thanksgiving
Unexpected guests of the two-legged and
four-legged varieties make this Thanksgiving
one to remember (not exactly fondly).
Running time: 11:06 minutes
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"Playin' Around"
Rachel, Styx and Jasper try playing with other bands - but not for long.
Running Time: 13:11 minutes
"Ridiculous"
The band members compete to see who can be first to find her or his perfect mate.
Running time: 15:53 minutes
"On Vacation"
The bands summer gig by a lake sounds too, too idyllic -because it is.
Running Time: 15:53 minutes
"Wedding Gig"
The band learns about marriage, Hollywood-Style.
Running Time: 10:43 minutes
"City Hall"
Rachel's niece convinces the band to join her 9th graders' activist campaign as they march to City Hall.
Running Time: 10:43 minutes
"Cooking Class"
Band members are bamboozled by a one-week course offering to teach them to cook a different international dish every night.
Running Time: 10:55 minutes
"Dress Shop"
Dressing rooms suddenly get very lively when the band goes looking for new attire.
Running Time: 12:02 minutes
"Hot Rocks Do Hamlet"
When the band members take part in a local fundraising performance of "Hamlet", they hope and pray The Bard is laughing, not groaning at the results.
Running Time: 28:54 minutes
"Halloween Gig"
A gig at a local haunted house becomes a little too creepy for the band.
Running Time: 11:19 minutes
"Knights of Olde"
The band participates in the local Renaissance Faire, complete with arrows, galleons and a jousting tournament.
Running Time: 13:27 minutes
"Old West"
The band is hired to play for a re-recreation of the old west, which turns into an unexpected rodeo.
Running Time: 12:39 minutes
"Artichokes and Pheromones"
The band runs to Castroville's Artichoke Festival to escape from sizzling heat and especially, from unwelcome suitors in Arizona.
Running Time: 11:40 minutes
"Play Baseball"
An unorthodox version of the game is played by the band members and others.
Running Time: 9:57 minutes
"Day Job"
A shortage of gigs prompts the band members to - briefly - engage in other lines of work.
Running Time: 13:35 minutes
"Goin' to the Dogs"
With nowhere else to stay for distant 3-day music festival, band members agree to dog-sit for a nearby kennel.
Running Time: 11:42 minutes
"Horrid Movie"
Rachel, Styx, and Jasper meet werewolves, monsters and, far worse, cops, in the local park at night.
Running Time: 10:37 minutes
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"You Are Where?"
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COMEDY HISTORY SERIES
Complete Radio Plays
Scripts written by Jane Frances Hirsh
Recorded at Hoffmann Studios, Occidental CA.
Close One
Native Indian peoples of mid 19th century California endure invasions by Aleutians, Russians, Mexicans and Americans, all hungry for wealth and land.​
That Falklands War
Why did two advanced nations, especially thousands of-miles-distant, England, battle over tiny, wind swept islands in the way, way south Atlantic?
Patroit's Unmasked
Our Founding Fathers were
only human, after all.
Running Time: 15:23 Minutes
"Romance and Other Mysteries"
Scripts written by Jane Frances Hirsh.
Recorded at Hoffmann Studios,Occidental CA.
Available in MP2 and MP3 Formats
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The Purloined Ncklace
Johnny Nickel
Sin City's annual 'Fig Leaf Festival'- a perfect chance to support (i.e. endure) the local high school marching band, eat,drink - and rob the jewelry store of its most precious item. Can two determined bloodhounds figure out what happened next? And next? And next?
Old lovers, old pals, and old enemies appear and get way too involved with the upcoming marriage of two of their "friends". Can this (forthcoming) marriage be saved?
Running Time: 20:03 minutes
San Francisco, nineteen sixty-eight: Peace, love, rock 'n' roll, Be-ins, acid trips, Vietnam looming - as parents visit the band's commune for Solstice (they call it Christmas). Freak out!
Running Time: 36:19 minutes
A Wedding, Maybe
Warp 60's
San Francisco, 1956.
A missing chorus girl, a deserted ranch, a parade of psychics, a seance, an arsonist, the morgue -
Fortunately, nothing is too spooky for detective Johnny Nickel and his astute sidekick, Joanna Barnes -
even a Communist witch-hunt, extra-terrestrials and their pushy Police Chief.
Running time: 39:52 minutes
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Intrepid detective ferrets out dognapper from a household of eccentrics and their more peculiar neighbors.
Running Time: 24:04 minutes
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Lucky Elyse! She gets to turn forty at a surprise birthday party where the guests include
her old lovers and her old rivals. Could this be the worst day of her life?
Running Time 19:40 minutes
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Elyse"s Birthday
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​FULL PERFORMANCE
​"Lassoes, Likker, 'n' Lead"
​Script by Jane Frances Hirsh
Music by Gordon Stubbe or Traditional
Videography by Marc Azevedo.
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Our Cast
Joyce Beydler • Gordon Stubbe • Deb Wright • Darren Digges
Michael Monahan • Marge Frasier • Hilary Wakelee • Nathan GrantTodhunter
Plaul Mellander • Steve Hastings • Lisa Kelly • Ann Sween
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Synopsis:
1867. The evil Weasel Gang has been killing Chinese railroad workers and the colorful denizens
of Gardenia's saloon in Sagebrush, Nevada, are trying to round up a posse to go after them.
Full length MP4 videos are available. Please contact us.
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