Lifeline Theater's campy take on ‘War of the Worlds’ is light-years away from Wells' classic

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Lifeline Theater's campy take on ‘War of the Worlds’ is light-years away from Wells' classic

When H.G. Wells’ late 19th-century novel “War of the Worlds” — a tale of a ruthless Martian invasion — aired in a radio adaptation in 1938, listeners thought the extra-terrestrial onslaught was real. Mass panic ensued as residents fled their homes in terror and took up shotguns to fend off the aliens.History repeated itself in 1949, when a radio station in Quito, Ecuador, broadcast a translation of the sci-fi classic. Ecuadoreans first panicked …