Sc.01: Prologue - Rubi's Car Crash
Series: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa)
From: Christian Baskous
Length: 00:03:17
Also in the Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa) series
Sc.09: Constantinople
(00:02:29)
From: Christian Baskous
Porfirio Rubirosa Visits the Holy City of Byzantium
Sc.06: Woody Hits the Road (the YMCA)
(00:05:13)
From: Christian Baskous
Woody Mezmer visits the YMCA in Chicopee, Mass.
Sc.05: The Road to New Rome
(00:02:10)
From: Christian Baskous
Porfirio Rubirosa awakens in the bottom of a leaky boat...
Sc.04: Wood's Hole - A Phonecall
(00:01:06)
From: Christian Baskous
A message from a phonebooth in Anatolia...
Sc.03: The Sewers of Paris
(00:01:43)
From: Christian Baskous
Porfirio Rubirosa makes a watery passage through the Paris sewer.
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Piece Description
Porfirio Rubirosa races his Ferrari through the deserted nighttime streets of Paris, lamenting the lost splendor of his youth... He hits a cyclist and flees from an angry mob. A mysterious urchin leads him into an open manhole, down which he falls...
Broadcast History
This piece played on WOMR in fall of 2003 and since then on many other community, freeform and college stations in the U.S. and Canada. It has been serialized on WBAI, KPFA and WUSM and featured on other stations too numerous to mention.
Timing and Cues
Suggested intro: "This is the first scene of an original, demented voiceplay written and produced in 2003 by Christian Baskous, entitled "Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa / fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa"..."
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