The Malverne Community Theatre returned to Crossroads Farm at Grossmann’s this weekend for another live performance.
The evenings of Oct. 24 and 25, the theater group performed a live radio play production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Each year MCT performs a Halloween radio play in the farm’s hoop house, which is used for community activities.
A radio play is a purely auditory performance, as actors only use their voices, music, and sound effects to tell a story. The audience must use their imagination to picture any visual elements.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story originally published in 1820 by the author Washington Irving. The tale centers on Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher who is competing against local hero Brom Bones for the hand of the wealthy Katrina Van Tassel. At a party, the story of the Headless Horseman, the ghost of a trooper decapitated by a cannonball during the Revolutionary War, is shared. After being rejected by Katrina, Crane travels home where the Headless Horseman chases him and Crane’s horse is found alone in the woods the next day.
