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Messenger Theatre Company is usually a highly visual company and this new form allows for creating those visuals in the imaginations of the audience. There’s something about audio drama that is the closest of on-line forms to indie theatre. It shares the intimacy of small spaces and unusual venues.

Transcripts of the episodes are available for published episodes. Click here to access them.

If you’d like to hear a Season Three, you can donate through Ko-fi, Guidestar or PayPal.

We are a 501c3 and your donations are tax deductible.

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The Dragoning is written by Emily Rainbow Davis

The Dragoning Theme was composed by Scott Ethier

Sound Design by Matt Powell

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Season Two features actors on three continents: Nina Nikolic, Conrad Le Bron, Clare Stevenson, Mischa Ipp, Sara Lynam, Emily Hartford, Julian Rozzell, Jr and Rhiannon Moushall.

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Season One Cast (in order of appearance):

Ned Massey, Julian Rozzell, Jr., Brooke Turner, Jeff LaGreca, Max Arnaud, Sevrin Anne Mason, Emily Hartford, Nancy Nagrant, Sally Beaumont and Vickie Tanner

With our audio thanks to Rick Scholwin

We are entirely listener funded

Thank you to

Season One Supporters

Agathe David - Weill, Donna Shaunesey, John Kirby, Heather Lester, Frederick Hudson, Melinda Powell, Melissa Ch’ng, Belinda He, Jessica Lee, Dorothy Carney, Gael Schaefer, Heidi Carlsen, Jerry Polner, Johan Enfeldt, Kara McLane Burke, Karen Pavao, Kim Beard, Lydia Ooghe, M Goldfischer, Millie Fife, Rebecca Tyler, Renee Nolan, R.M. Weiner, Sevrin Anne Mason, Virginia Lowery, Allison Plamondon and Gina Caputo.

Season Two Supporters

The Ethier Cheney Family Fund and Fidelity Charitable, Donna Shaunesey, Barry Gribble, Rachel Kirby, Frederick Hudson, Shannon Harvey, Kim Beard, Andrew Troth, Christena Coutsoubos, Rebecca MacNeice, Christine Brown, Bill Davis, Millie Fife, Stephanie Griffin Acosta, Emily Bunning, Sevrin Anne Mason, Sharyn Gantt, Melissa Ch’ng, Jerry Polner, Van Svenson, R.M. Weiner, Kim Ethier Stover, Gael Schaefer, Randy Symank, Madeline Goldfischer, Karen Pavao, Dan Renkin, Tim Davis, Allison Plamondon and Maiza Dubhé

The Dragoning is an audio drama podcast that takes place in a not so distant future where the world has been shaken by an epidemic of women turning into dragons.

You can listen now on Apple, Anchor, Spotify, Pocketcasts, RadioPublic, Overcast, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, fyyd, JioSavaan, iVoox, Bullhorn, Tunein and Pandora. Or you can listen to it right here on our webpage. Just click here.

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In The Dragoning, the world is shaken by the transformations of women into dragons who consume and immolate men. 

In Season One, a tourist from afar tries to understand what, when any woman could literally eat you for lunch, is a guy supposed to do? Who can you trust? 

In Season Two, the tourist returns to his native city where The Dragoning has not yet begun but his bringing home a dragon from Dragon City might just kick it off. 

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Trigger Warning - many men will be eaten or set on fire over the course of this audio drama. Please take care.

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The show has charted in the drama and fiction charts of Russia (#21), Sweden (#27), Germany (#36), Australia (#52), Denmark (#71), Canada (#74), New Zealand (#85), United States of America (#85), India (#111) and Great Britain (#98).

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“It's walking an interesting line between satire and speculative fiction. A lot of, indeed almost all of the new male fears in this world are women's fears in our world. (Can you go home with this girl? What if she's a dragon? How do you get away if it goes bad?)”

“All of which is to say, go listen to it. It's a thinker.”

Read more of The Cambridge Geek’s review here.

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The show was featured on The First Episode Of… Podcast. W. Keith Tims’ interview with Emily Rainbow Davis explores the origins and source material for the show.

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The Dragoning was selected as a top pick in The End audio drama newsletter and The End podcast.

We were featured in Podcast Magazine in June 2021

Reviews via Apple Podcasts: