RADIO DRAMA REVIEWS ONLINE

Twelve by Mike Murphy

Home
AUTHORS A-J
AUTHORS K-R
AUTHORS S-Z
DRAMATISTS A-Z
Contact Us

Download Twelve from The Drama Pod

The Drama Pod, August 2013
 
A macabre little tale of an apparently normal couple in a mundane American city, where a man receives a prophecy telling him he will die at twelve o'clock.  By nature a superstitious person, he takes it very seriously; he is the kind of person who carries a rabbit's foot in his pocket for good luck.  His spouse suffers from similar anxieties; despite numerous protestations of love for each other, it's clear that their lives are governed by the belief in a power controlling them.
 
The man travels to work to do some errands, and encounters a mysterious dropout in the street who dies abruptly, despite the man's attempts to resuscitate him.  This incident leads on the man to a fortune-teller; despite initial scepticism, the fortune-teller has a powerful hold on his psyche.  Twelve o'clock approaches; and the man worries whether or not the prophecy will come true ...
 
Conceived in the style of the old Twilight Zone television series, Twelve was convincingly acted with a narrator acting as the listeners' guide, while reminding us of how little free will we actually possess.  I'd love to credit the cast, but unfortunately I did not find a cast-list.  Tim Heffernan's production was slickly staged; well worth a listen.