Around The World in Eighty Days
Season 02, Episode 01
August 6, 2014
No recording available for this performance. Apologies.
An adventure travel story
Re-Imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop actors and other community volunteers performing a radio adaptation of the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, Washington. In the 1873 novel by French author Jules Verne, Phileas Fogg and his French valet, Passepartout, seek to travel around the world in eighty days or less on a bet. Radio adaptation for this performance by Cynthia J. McGean.
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Background
Curated Exhibition
Inspired by "Martians with Moustaches" (see War of the Worlds, 2013, Season 1, episode 01) students in John F. Barber's Summer 2014 Digital Storytelling class sought to exhibit their work to the community. Together, we developed and curated Chronicles: Stories of the past, present & future→, a collection of multimedia and transmedia responses to the radio drama Around the World in Eighty Days. Students identified digital media whose particular affordances (potentials for particular actions) could promote an expanded context for their narratives. They designed and developed content for their selected media and sought to use these media so to elaborate the telling of their stories, while maintaining an overarching conceptual narrative framework true to the original.
Selected student projects
Around Downtown in
Eight Days game→
by Alyssa Korinke
Participants picked up "passports" at the Fort Vancouver Regional Library in downtown Vancouver,
Washington, and acquired stamps by visiting local business partners. At each location, participants
found
student-designed travel posters for each leg of the around-the-world journey. These posters were
augmented with a digital overlay of images, text, and sound experienced via a freely downloadable
application.
Passepartout: Valet or Interdimensional Man of
Mystery?→
by Alyssa Korinke and Justin Williams
An alternate backstory for Passepartout, imagining him (and Inspector Fix) as traveler's from a parallel
world. Passepartout had stolen an important item in that parallel world, as was in this one to collect
needed resources. The journey around the world with Fogg provided convenient cover.
Aouda's Adventure→
by Jasmine Bothroyd and Kelsea Rothaus
An illustrated a journal allegedly created by Aouda, the young Indian woman rescued by Fogg and
Passepartout from ritualistic sacrifice. In doing so, they brought this otherwise thin character to
life, especially through their use of augmented reality.
Around the World in 80
Days→
by Ryan Grover, Robert Ditty, and Hua-Yang Lee
A multimedia "chose your own adventure" illustrated with 8bit graphics in homage to early video games.
Around the World in 80 Days→
by Stephen Palermini
Augmented reality and animation illustrate the adventure as never before!
Phileas Foggs Sound Narrative→
by Dustin Speer
A sound collage to image how Fogg's journey might have sounded. Speer also created and put online and
journal and a collection of photographs allegedly produced by Fogg.
Production
Contents
A live performance of Around the World in Eighty Days by Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry. The radio adaptation of the orginal 1873 novel by French author Jules Verne by Cynthia J. McGean.
Producer's Notes
The idea evolved from my summer Digital Storytelling class, with students wanting a community exhibition of their projects.
Students conceptualized and created multimedia responses to Around the World in Eighty Days. Several were interactive. See below for more information about this.
Serendipity suggested I contact Sam Mowry, director of Willamette Radio Workshop, and ask whether his group could/would mount a performance based on the novel by Jules Verne.
Student projects were mounted in the lobby of Kiggins Theatre with their creators standing by before and
after the performance to offer explanations and answer questions.
— John F. Barber
Promotion
Graphics
