Radio Rescue

Written by one of America's premiere authors of plays for young people, Radio Rescue is a dynamic mixture of original plot and engaging characters that merge into a unique theatrical experience. It is the 1940s when people traveled mostly by trains and amateur radio operators communicated across the globe using their ham radios to exchange messages and emergency communications. In this suspense drama Sparky and Jill, two orphans living in the Millford Orphans' Home, have secretly built their own radio. One night they receive an emergency call that the train tracks have been washed out. It is up to them to get word to the train. Ground breaking in theme and style, this realistic youth play was first produced by the Goodman Theatre.