Radio Play Revival features great American actors performing great American works of literature. Performed by both established and new-and-emerging performers, musicians, and writers, Radio Play Revival pays homage to the golden age of radio, in the now-second golden age of audio. Radio Play Revival has an ensemble repertory cast of performers featuring Christopher Walken, Laura Benanti, Patti LuPone, Anderson Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Jefferson Mays, Jessica Chastain, Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Williams and many more.
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episode 7: The Swimmer by John Cheever
The Suburbs, 1964: Neddy Merrill is lounging poolside at a friend’s party, gin in hand, when a genius thought materializes in his mind. He’s going to swim home! His ensuing pilgrimage across the familiar neighborhood swimming pools- a symbol of everything right in his life- leads him back to his own house, where everything has gone so wrong.
Cast (in speaking order):
PATRICK PAGE as The Narrator
NATHAN MALIN as Donald Westerhazy / The Lifeguards
KELLY FAIRBROTHER as Lucinda Merrill / Shirley Abbott
GIA MANTEGNA as Helen Westerhazy / Enid Bunker
REBECCA KUZNICK as Mrs. Graham
JOSH JOHNSTON as Neddy Merrill
KITTY SWINK as Mrs. Halloran
LASHETTE SHOWERS as Helen Halloran
TIA DeSHAZOR as Grace Biswanger
with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR
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