The concept of radio drama, also known as radio comedy or radio theater, is an audio drama which is transmitted through the radio. As is to be expected, this lacks visual components, therefore radio plays depend clearly on dialogue, music and sound effects, in order to help the listener so that he can imagine the story that is unfolding. Radio drama had a great boom between the 1920s and 1940s, becoming a form of mass entertainment throughout the world. Later with the invention of televisionIn the mid-twentieth century, it was showing a progressive decline, until occupying a small portion within the programming of entertainment spaces.
All those elements that make up the radio drama converge on the same objective and that is for the listener to activate their imagination so that they can enter the story. Today the radio drama is a genre that is practically extinct, however there are a series of projects that try to rescue it from exile.
The origins of radio drama go back to the end of the 19th century, when the Italian Guillermo Marconi began with the first broadcasts of this genre. But it was not until 1920 that the radio became a mass communication medium and a means of entertaining people where music and information were included. It was at that time that the radio serial became very popular and the plays of different genres became well known through radio devices, however drama was the most liked genre. This phenomenon was very popular in Spain and most of the Latin American countries.
La gran popularidad que este alcanzo se debió principalmente al hecho de que el teatro para ese entonces era un entretenimiento que no se encontraba al alcance de todo el mundo, pero con la adaptación que el teatro tuvo en la radio este problema desapareció. Muchos de los programas incluso se emitieron durante décadas, pero luego de la llegada del televisor, el radioteatro fue perdiendo seguidores.
