‘A Prairie Home Companion’ radio show survived and prospered for 42 years in our age where mainstream story-telling has short-circuited the beauty of the human imagination by force-feeding imagery by way of the boob tube, and now the internet.
That the program triumphed is a tribute to the writing and story-telling of Garrison Keillor, who held a huge audience spellbound with possibilities conjured from within each listener’s head.
Great artists breed great imitators. We can only hope that the inspired word-play that heralds this summer’s tour of A Prairie Homeless Companion captures the imagination and sympathy of listeners as it follows (well, sort of follows) in the footsteps of a man who is arguably the greatest oral storyteller of both the last, and this, century.
Read more in The Globe: ‘A Prairie Homeless Companion’ To Debut This Summer
