THE GREEN GODDESS
By William Archer & Orson Welles
 The Campbell Playhouse
“The Green Goddess”
by William Archer
Produced, directed and scripted by Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles A
small plane carrying three British citizens -- Major Crespin, his wife
Lucille, and Dr. Trahernis -- is forced down somewhere near the
Himalayas. The plane lands in the tiny Princedom of Rukh, ostensibly
under the British Viceroy, but actually ruled by a curiously deranged
old Raja. The three visitors find themselves at the mercy of the Raja
and are caught up in his lustful plots & plans. The Rajah holds them
prisoner because the British are about to execute his three
half-brothers in neighboring India. His subjects believe that their
Green Goddess has given them the lives of the three Brits as payment for
the lives of the Rajah's brothers. They will execute them when the
brothers are executed. Trahern and the Crespins must figure a way to use
the Rajah's radio to call India for help... The finest radio drama of the 1930’s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown.The show first broadcast on CBS and CBC in July 1938. It ran without a sponsor until December of that year, when it was picked up by Campbell’s Soup and renamed The Campbell Playhouse.
Approximate play time of 1 hour. |
