Andrea Clardy

Original Production: Ixion Ensemble, Lansing MI, May 12-20, 2018
Length: 10 Minutes
Characters: 2F

In 2035 all offices and private homes in USA have microphones and every single word is monitored (and reacted on). And now the government wants to start monitoring even more. The play takes place in the office where the code that does all the monitoring is written and where the lead developer and the supervisor seem to have a bit of a problem with some of the new regulations. Or so it seems.

The two characters' conversation gives us the background of what had happened before and what is about to be implemented. But that is just the stage - the play is all about a human relationship and about what a person is capable of doing and how much one can trust someone else in the middle of a Big Brother state.

It was a pretty good play - and quite effective at this length.… (altro)

This book concerns death by accident and the death of a peer, both rarely dealt with topics for this age group. The narrator and his brother, Peter, have difficulty in accepting their friend Dusty's death. The narrator seeks information about the car accident in order to understand Dusty's death. This question seeking is a common part of the grief process. The narrator expresses his grief through a letter to Dusty, and by cherishing his memories of Dusty. This is an older text, with soft almost monochrome illustrations.… (altro)