Judith Kampfner | Producer & Presenter
© Judith Kampfner 2009
A ninety minute radio drama featuring actors from the Steppenwolf Theater Company. Recorded in Chicago.
"This week's drama pick may interest fans of Charlie Kaufman's latest film, Synecdoche, New York. Drama on 3 – Darger And The Detective (BBC Radio 3, tonight, 8pm) is based on the life and work of Henry Darger, a reclusive hospital porter who, for 60 years, worked on a creative project to construct an alternative reality. Recorded in Chicago with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the play stars actor and playwright Tracy Letts."
The Scotsman on Sunday
"The Drama on 3 is Darger and the Detective (Radio 3, 8.00pm) is a play, by Mike Walker about Henry Joseph Darger, a hospital porter in Chicago who every night worked in his solitary room on a vast panorama of alternative reality, an epic picture of beauty, innocence, Catholic iconography, Civil War history and atrocity. This piece was recorded in Chicago, performed by actors of the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company."
Radio highlights: Weekend 20/21 June – Telegraph
Judith Kampfner and Mike Walker are currently pursuing various options for reworking Darger and the Detective for the stage or as a multi media production or event
