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53.4 1918/2020: "Facing Time"

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.5626 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A lonely English seaside cottage holds heartbreaking tales of pandemics past and present.

"Facing Time" is the final installment in our pandemic series, 1918/2020, original audio plays inspired by surreal times.

Cast featured in this episode:
Chris Woolsey as C.W.C. Woolsey
Kacie Laforest as Alex
Mary Murphy as Sam
Allison Guinn as Lizzie
Ali Silva as Mary
James Kleinmann as the BBC newsreader

“Facing Time” written by Tim McArthur
“PLOGs” written by Lizz Leiser & Chris Woolsey
Directed by Ali Silva

Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva
Music by Nico Sleator
Production operations: Lizz Leiser
Social media: Kacie Laforest
Production coordinator: Faith Johnson
Theme music by Jason Graves
Audio production & sound design: Ali Silva

Additional music (Artlist):
Still Holding On by Tristan Barton

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It sure seems like this pandemic has been dragging on so much longer than any of us could have ever anticipated, kind of like the production of this series.

0:16.5

Well, hey, we've had a lot of upheaval and uncomfortable adjustments to manage our way through,

0:22.0

just like the rest of the world.

0:23.5

But we're still here, damn it.

0:25.2

And so are you.

0:26.5

So that is something we can all be proud of.

0:29.5

For the final installment of our 1918-2020 series,

0:33.9

we offer a wistful, romantic, and delightfully creepy story penned by our dear and

0:41.4

multi-talented friend Tim MacArthur in his first audio play as part of our FMT writer's

0:47.7

cabal. Perhaps it's not too much of a stretch to imagine. A lonely wind that carries an airborne pestilence searching for a host upon

0:57.7

which to feed. Where might such a wind carry us? Who does it interact with? What story would it tell us?

1:05.3

And what might that story tell us about ourselves? Are you prepared to make such a discovery? If you strain to listen to the sound of that wind, you may hear the muted cries of some long-forgotten ghosts. Hello, dear readers, it's me, CWC Woolsey.

1:43.8

You're calm in the storm, you're a canary in the coal mine, your voice of reason ready to vaccinate the virus of pandemic panic. I am proud to pen this weekly editorial as presented by the New York Gazette Post Tribune Globe, America's finest and most historically accurate periodical paper.

2:03.0

I call this column the pandemic log or plog.

2:07.4

Well, then I, CWC. Wolsey, will deliver you tips, tricks, and sound advice to thrive

2:12.7

in these trying times.

2:14.9

Now that the Spanish flu, or as I like to call it, the paella pukees, has forced us

2:19.8

all to stay inside. Have you found your inner cuckoo clock chiming a few too many times upon the

2:24.8

hour? You know when you contract a case of the crazies and your eyeballs spin around in different

2:29.8

directions. There you are, wandering around the park barefooted with bedhead in your bedroom attire,

2:34.9

asking strangers, have you seen my mommy? What day is it? Do you know that I write a popular

2:39.6

weekly editorial column? Of course you have. We all have. All of us, every single one of us.

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