Friday, October 19, 2012

Moon Graffiti


So, I’ve been recommended Jonathan Mitchell’s work as some of the most cutting edge in audio/radio today.  I did find Moon Graffiti to be quite haunting. It was, in fact, the pilot episode of The Truth (of which I have already listened to a story).  It’s a short and interesting play with authorial intrusion telling us that it is a “what if?”, a dramatization of Nixon’s 1969 speech written by William Safire which would salve the failure of the Apollo 11 mission.  With two actors in the near-silence of space using their last 2 hours of life to reflect on the point of it all, it could have been a portentous piece of work.  Instead, it felt spare and poignant.

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