The Landing of the Pilgrims

A radio-play dramatization traces a group of religious exiles from their life in Leyden through negotiations over passage and support, a difficult ocean voyage aboard the Mayflower, and an unintended arrival on the rock-bound New England coast where they establish a settlement. The work alternates scripted scenes—private councils, dealings with foreign agents, shipboard moments, and first landings—with explicit directions for radio performance, including microphone placement, voice distance effects, crowd noises, and dialectal speech rhythms, so performers can recreate the sounds and tensions of these early colonial episodes for listeners.