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- Phil Easley
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- Location: Harrisonburg, VA
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- "The Last Christian Standing"
- Summary: Paul hopes to die a martyr, but no one wants to kill him at first. Then they all do.
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Review of The Last Christian Standing
Phil Easley
Posted on February 25, 2004 at 07:47 AM
This piece lives up to the descriptors in the summary: experimental, offbeat and provocative, and it does so without any music or other sounds, just the narration of a story. But a cleverly written story it is, one that comments on good and evil, Christianity, the future (it seems that one hundred years from now executions will be through some sort of brain-sucking method), media influence, a martyr's ego, and lots more, not necessarily in that order. If your station is willing to "experiment" with simple narration (and has a fifteen-minute slot available), this piece will appeal to sophisticated listeners, even those who join it midway through. Would have some appeal in connection with all the hooplah surrounding the Mel Gibson movie (late Feb, 2004) about the crucifixion of Christ.