CASTING AND OTHER NOTES

RADIO ?

FROM CBC RADIO DRAMA - #7

June 15, 1982.

       Bill Howell has relinquished his Nightfall cap to Vancouver producer Don Kowalchuk. After two seasons of producing "creepies" he's ready for a change. This month he's directing Charles Templeton's The Third Temptation, dramatized by Len Peterson, starring Jack Scott as an evangelist who loses faith. And he's cast Gordon Pinsent in Quiet in the Hills by Michael Riordan about a Canadian doctor who goes to work in Guatemala and becomes embroiled in a guerrilla war. Howell and Peterson are also working on dramatizations of some O. Henry stories.

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       A rollicking Irish folk tale, dramatized by John Douglas, is slated for Nightfall, Friday, June 25. Teig O'Kane and The Corpse features playwright Michael Cook in several roles in this St. John's production by Glen Tilley. Nightfall begins a season of repeats for the summer, Friday, July 2. And Sunday Matinee offers the best of the past two seasons with three months of Canadian plays, starting July 4.

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       Erika Ritter, who won a ACTRA Award for best radio drama script for her hit play, Automatic Pilot, is adapting her historical play, Winter 1671 for radio. Other scripts in the works are The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car, Season's Tickets and SandDollar Man, all by James DeFelice of Edmonton, who wrote the fine screenplay for the film of Max Braithwaite's Why Shoot the Teacher? Howard Engel whose two books about private eye Benny Cooperman have won a host of fans, is writing a pilot for a possible radio series on Cooperman. Engel's third Cooperman book, Murder on Location, comes out in September.

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       Ron Hartmann, whose much-praised productions of the Nero Wolfe series are coming to an end on Sunday Matinee, this summer directs Bloodroot, a fivehour Canadian historical epic by Marian Waldman, creator of the Sussex Drive series a few seasons back.