SILON

SILÖN (THE SECRET AND IMPOSSIBLE LEAGUE OF THE NOÖSPHERE) is the result of a decade of conversations between director Meghan Arnette and playwright Darian Lindle about theatre, science fiction, identity, the female voice, and the power of serial storytelling. From those conversations, we discovered the concept of the NoöSphere, an adjacent reality where the world is literally formed and destroyed through the power of Ideas. Like most Steampunk, this is a scientific romance. 

In 2017 Live Girls! Theater produced the play for a four-week run in Seattle. The play was a critical success, receiving Gregory nominations for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Sound/Music Design and a Gypsy Rose Lee nomination for Excellence in Local Playwriting. Shortly after the show closed, Darian began working on the sequel, finishing the first draft in the first half of 2020. With the pandemic shutting down all in-person theatrical productions, the LG! Team was determined to keep producing work and employing artists. Darian reached out to her long-time friends, Tilly and Susan Bridges to see if the idea of turning this stage play into a radio play was a good idea. With their encouragement, LG! And Pendant joined forces to make the SILÖN Radio Play a reality. We called up all of the actors from the 2017 production and they agreed to reprise (and reimagine) their roles in a new medium (some of whom have been involved since the very first play reading in 2012. The result is a labor of love ten years in the making.