Black Hole (Remix)

Black Hole[1]

Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
9/16/2001
Cast
Alan Hunter, Barbara Sohmers, Marilyn Casky, Arthur Miller, Brother Theodore, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Clark Gordon, Larry Block, Richard Bauer, Tim Jerome, Joe Frank
Format
1 hour
Preceded by:	Terminal
Followed by:	In The Dark (Remix)

Images of the city at night. People hurry along with umbrellas.

Black Hole is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on September 16, 2001.

Synopsis

• Religious orders
• Bizarre boxing match
• A presidential address
• Interrogation of man regarding an explosion
• Dialog with the man's wife
• Lectures on Electrocism and Naturism
• Actor's monologue on suicide techniques
• Taxicab at suicide bridge
• "Something is missing from my life" discussion
• The president talks about eating nothing as a child, reads the children's questions monologue ("if I don't like it, why do I have to eat it?")
• A man attends his own funeral.

Music

• "Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ" - Steve Reich (from Drumming, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Six Pianos, 1974) | YouTube
• "Brüder Des Schattens" - Popol Vuh (from Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts, 1978) | YouTube
• "Remote Viewing" - Tangerine Dream (from Exit, 1981) | YouTube

• "Six Marimbas" - Steve Reich (from Sextet · Six Marimbas, 1986) | YouTube
• "Lizard Point" - Brian Eno (from Ambient 4 (On Land), 1982) | YouTube

Shared material

• Nightride
• A Tour of the City

Additional credits

• Directed by Arthur Miller
• Mixed by Jim Anderson
• Remixed by Ray Guarna

Commentary

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Shiro

This is one of the best radio play programs to introduce to newbies. Of the three different programs containing the same material (with Tour Of The City, A (Part 1) and Nightride), this is the the most humorous and upbeat. Absent is much of the husband and wife dialog, and the structured narrative that is apparent in A Tour of the City. Instead we've treated to a series of scenes which seem to be connected only by a common tone. Although some beautiful acting has been removed, I prefer this tighter edit.