Teaser Trailer - The Quarantine Plays

When COVID-19 hit the United States, The Merry Beggars launched a contest for 10-minute radio plays responding to the theme of "quarantine." We received over 120 responses from around the world. While we can't produce all of them, we've chosen twelve of the scripts to bring to you. - - - For mor…

Do You Remember with Relaxabot 938 - 001

How do you relax amidst civilizational collapse? Well, lucky for you, a future London has just the answer: Relaxabot 938! Kick up your feet, relax, and soak up the warm nolstalgia of a caring governmental robot. Enjoy the first of twelve episodes in , a new series from The Merry Beggars. To find o…

Friend Request - 002

All our lives have been stopped in their tracks. Coronavirus has made us all confront silence. Loneliness. Fear. But perhaps we're being invited into something deeper. Something that awaits us in the depths of silence. Something that can change us. - - - Enjoy the second episode in , a new series…

I Do Like the Rain - 003

"You never make the journey home alone." Accompany a young family as they road trip to their parents' home, the third episode in The Quarantine Plays, a new series from The Merry Beggars. Andy - John Paul Stansbury Jen - Megan Carter Darcy - Maria Collins Gabe - Oliver Collins Sound Design - Ther…

Stones - 004

James' ex-girlfriend Sonya calls him up, telling him to meet her in the park. "It'll only take a minute," she says. But neither of their lives will ever be the same... Enjoy "Stones," the fourth episode of The Quarantine Plays, a new series from The Merry Beggars. To find out more, go to TheMerryB…

We Know Now - 005

In 1939, the United States heard Orson Welles' production of War of the Worlds. It was so convincing and so creatively produced that masses of people believe the world was truly under martian attack. Join our host, Norma, as she remembers how that radio show changed her life forever. Enjoy "We Kno…

Above and Beyond

It’s been a while since Millie and Andy have had the chance to see each other. It’s been a while since Andy has had the chance to see much of anyone. While his wife, Millie, is on mission in space, Andy faces the trials of quarantine back on Earth. Now, he has to spend his brief face-to-face conv…

Corona Kiddos

Eli and Hazel, two young best friends, are navigating the first COVID-19 lockdown and all its uncertainty together through letter-writing. While Eli is trying to remain relentlessly lighthearted, his best friend Hazel struggles to cope with some of the more brutal realities of the pandemic.

The Birds are Feeding Me

A stony banker, working from his apartment in the early days of lockdown, wishes to stop a neighbor from feeding pigeons on her balcony. The conversation doesn’t go as planned. With zany, snappy banter exchanged through the increasingly familiar setting of a Zoom call, Doug might just learn that g…

Knock, Knock

Damien, a nurse at Beachside Nursing Home in Virginia, is knocking on stranger's door with some difficult news. The woman who opens the door is far from what he was expecting.