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Produced for the Big Aple Short Radio Drama Festival on WNYE FM 91.5.
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Review of The Legend of Annie Oakley"The Legend of Annie Oakley" is new, crisp radio from Shabbir Hassan's Hassberry Theatre Company, and it fits fine on a summer day. A girl at the ballpark with her father asks why their tickets have holes in them. They're free passes – "Annie Oaklies". But the daughter doesn't know who Annie Oakley is. Ah, a chance for story. "Close your eyes. Think back to a long time ago, when your grandfather lived." Tall Tales differ from parables and fables and morality plays – the fun is in the telling, and the outsized aspect is an archetypal American tease. The fun is in the telling – that's radio. Sure, radio theatre is sometimes overlong, and often stuffed into weekend afternoons or late, late overnights. But Hassan works in a strict setting, and there's no reason this piece shouldn't find a spot in a Friday afternoon news package, right next to sports. Really, any summer day will do. Radio has space for more than mudslides and tidal waves -- don't forget the refreshing breeze. It's made of nearly nothing, but when it's there it makes everything else shimmer. Bullseye.
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Geoffrey Tozer
Posted on March 27, 2006 at 09:10 PM | Permalink
Review of The Legend of Annie Oakley
There's not enough storytelling on the radio. Hell, there's not enough storytelling period. It's all jokes and laughs and oh-so-dry irony, if irony can be dry. Ironing is almost always dry, but irony, I'm not sure.
Anyway, "The Legend of Annie Oakley" is a great piece and exactly the kind of stuff I'd like to hear on the radio. Not all this heavy handed pseudo-educational crap that oozes out from under every door. Let's tell some stories and make a connection. It's amazing how powerful a story in your imagination is. And this one's a good one.