Cloak and Dagger On the Air Presents “Original Sin” This Saturday

This Saturday, May 27, The Ohio Valley Cloak and Dagger Company presents Cloak and Dagger On the Air’s mid-season six finale at 4 p.m at Top of West Virginia Convention AND Visitors Bureau, located at 3539 Main Street in Weirton (across from Ferguson Tire Pros).
Titled Cloak and Dagger On the Air: Original Sin III, the production will feature two original radio plays by executive producer and head writer Pete Fernbaugh.
Act One will premiere the latest episode of the troupe’s interactive non-British British game show, Let’s Solve a Meta Mystery! The mystery this go-around is titled “A Fistful of Outlaws,” in which we journey back to the cowtown of Hellfire, where every myth and every legend you’ve ever known about the Old West comes alive, only to die at the end of a gun, a fist, or a carelessly hurled shot glass.
“One Friday evening in the Six Feet Under Saloon, lawman Wild Wyatt Wheeler, guns drawn and eyes a-blazin’, crashes the debauchery to declare that Angus McMann, the Surly Scotsman and the Richest Man in These Here Parts, has been found dead on the outskirts of his property, his expansive ranch has been razed, and his fabled Ostrich Egg Gold Nugget has been purloined,” Fernbaugh said. “The studio audience, including three contestants who will join our troupe on stage, will have a chance to solve the mystery of Angus McMann’s demise and win some prizes, all while immersing themselves in the absurdity and arcanity of this unique gameshow experience.”
Act Two’s drama is titled The Wayfaring Stranger.
“Imagine a past filled with the most despicable acts a person could commit,” Fernbaugh said. “Imagine spending 15 years of a life sentence in prison, locked away for those acts, only to one day be released and given a second chance no one believes you deserve, including you yourself. Then, imagine having to face the world you wronged head-on, without the protection of those ​prison walls or the security of your sentence. What would you do? Where would you go? How would you respond to this undeserved freedom? And how would the people you wronged, whose lives you destroyed, respond to your undeserved freedom?”
Such are Matthew Thomas’s circumstances when we meet him in The Wayfaring Stranger. A score by classical pianist Roberta Fedoush will accompany the piece.
The cast for both stories includes: Sheila Cavalette, Rob DeSantis, Bethany Fernbaugh, Pete Fernbaugh, Noah Hilton, Nancy Longo, Karissa Martin, Ralph Parissi, and John E. Reilly, with sound effects by the Holy Foley Molies.
Admission to Cloak and Dagger On the Air: Original Sin III is free, although donations to help cover production costs are always appreciated. Light refreshments and water will be available.
Doors open at 3:30 p.m. with live music by R.J. Gaudio, Troubadour, who will perform pop, rock, and folk music favorites. The program will also livestream from The Ohio Valley Cloak and Dagger Company Facebook page starting at 3:30 p.m.
Top of WV CVB is located at 3539 Main Street in Weirton, W.Va. Ample parking is available behind the building, where there is also an entrance. Individuals with mobility impairments may more easily enter through the building’s front entrance.
Cloak and Dagger On the Air is a monthly theatrical series from The Ohio Valley Cloak and Dagger Company that celebrates audio drama from all eras, particularly the fabled Golden Age of Radio. By reimagining classic radio dramas and literary works, along with original stories written and produced by independent writer and actor Pete Fernbaugh, Cloak and Dagger On the Air strives to give audiences an immersive experience that engages the theatre of their imagination in creating a fully realized storytelling adventure.
The Cloak and Dagger On the Air podcast completes the experience by presenting these stories in the way they were meant to be seen: by the mind’s eye.
For more information and for updates on live and recorded productions, visit The Ohio Valley Cloak and Dagger Company’s Facebook page.