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Permafrost, MN Audiobook

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Read By: a full cast Publisher: Great Northern Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The Great Northern Audio Theatre Collection Release Date: September 2015 Format: Audio Theater Audiobook ISBN: 9781504672191

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

1

Longest Chapter Length:

37:59 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

37:59 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

37:59 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

22

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Publisher Description

Permafrost is an unincorporated (and entirely concocted) town on the logging road, off the gravel road, off the county road from Big Falls, in Koochiching County, Minnesota. It went into the unusually hard winter of 1887–88 and never came out. Oh, it isn’t frozen in time, it’s just frozen.

There is what is called a “microclimate” around Permafrost. About two square miles around the town and a lake are below freezing all year round. It doesn’t get bitter cold even in winter, or warm even in summer, just freezing, all the time. It’s no wonder Permafrost is the ice-fishingest place around.

Permafrost, MN is an audio serial in thirteen three-minute episodes about the people who live and work in the town. Together they tell about one important event in the history of the town, and each episode tells a part of this tale with a short story of its own.

You’ll meet Finch Shelmerdine and her parents who run the Frozen Filet Cafe. You’ll hear from Bux Hootkins, who lives in Permafrost but has a place in Texas that he visits in the summer because he likes the extremes. You’ll find Melody McCleod, Permafrost’s mail carrier and town gossip who, if there’s not enough to gossip about in a small town, just makes it up. Then there is Les Decksia, town historian, who claims he remembers the threat of a thaw back in ’69. And they are all a little nuts to live in a remote and frozen place like Permafrost, Minnesota.

This is a very Minnesota program, with likable characters and humorous situations and events, written, produced, and performed by Minnesotans and richly enhanced with original music and sound effects.

Permafrost, MN is one of the plays from the Great Northern Audio Theatre, which creates its own unique, original brand of lighthearted, comic stories that evoke the inventiveness of Firesign Theatre and the sophistication of Norman Corwin, celebrated American creator of radio drama.

Permafrost, MN performers include Irene Ruderman, Donna Alexander, Don Cosgrove, Rebecca Fay, David Hennessey, Dean Johnson, Carolyn Press, Mark Sulander, Jerry Stearns. Original theme music is by Mike Wheaton. Radio music is by Darren Callahan.

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“Permafrost, MN achieves that rarest of comedies, whimsy. Think of Lake Woebegone scripted by Lewis Carroll. It is also the home of the gentlest collection of eccentrics this side of Northern Exposure.”

— Tom Fuller, Atlanta Radio Theater Company

Awards

  • Nominated for Audio World’s Golden Headset Awardin 1999 for Best Multicast Spoken Word Production

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About the Authors

Brian Price has been working in audio theater and production for over thirty-five years. He has written, directed, and adapted for groups such as Native Voices at the Autry, the Grist Mill, and the National Audio Theatre Festivals. He and his Great Northern Audio Theatre partner, Jerry Stearns, wrote and produced eighteen years of the Mark Time Awards Radio Show and were awarded an Audie Award in 2017 for Best Audio Drama for their full-length drama In the Embers. They also hold a Norman Corwin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Audio Theater.

Jerry Stearns is cofounder, with Brian Price, of Great Northern Audio Theatre, a production company with a focus on lighthearted and comic original stories.

About a full cast

Bleak December Inc. is a multimedia company founded by Canadian actor and filmmaker Anthony D.P. Mann.