This is Beckettian, right?
It’s been a year and a half! Hi!
I don’t know much about absurdist theater, so my only comp for the standalone audio play Body(s) by E Elia is Samuel Beckett, plus maybe Wallace Shawn’s Grasses of a Thousand Colors (which is also available as a podcast).
Body(s) isn’t available as a podcast, it’s only on SoundCloud right now, I found it on Reddit where it got no attention, which is a shame because it’s good. And weird, like I couldn’t tell you at all what it means, it’s three duologues about people who have given away their legs or other more fantastical body parts, again, Beckett, not just Godot but the weirder art-house stuff. It’s maybe about how we trade away our souls?
Body(s), like Grasses, works very well as an audio drama, enough that I worry that if I’d seen it live with 100% of my attention I wouldn’t have liked it as much, but that’s probably my lack of imagination. Or if my apprehension is correct it’s because I’m a pseudointellectual who can only stretch outside my comfort zone if I’m simultaneously walking through the park. ANYWAY I remember a prominent audio drama critic asking the medium at large to “give me the weird shit,” so here’s the weird shit. Body(s), by E Elia. I hope they produce more.
Bye! This was fun! We shouldn’t wait so long next time!