The War of the Worlds TV-Show Review 2019 Cast Crew
Stars: Rafe Spall, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jonathan Aris
The story of the panic caused by the transmission of Orson Welles in 1938 from the science fiction novel by HG Wells has been told many times. But this show, devised by Rhum and Clay and written by Isley Lynn, offers a new vision to see it as a harbinger of the deceptions that have accelerated in the last 80 years. Even if I struggled with some of the conclusions, I enjoyed the ingenuity, pungency and physical ability of the piece.
Four actors quickly evoke the original broadcast: the dance band's music is interspersed with field reports from New Jersey, where supposedly the Martians have landed. Complete books on induced hysteria have been written, but the play really begins when Meena, a graduate of British media studies, visits Grover's Mill, where the radio drama was created, to explore the truth of a story that unfolds in 13 years. Abandoned by her terrified family. Meena discovers that the city is full of tourist sites that commemorate a fictional event. We realize that we live in a world where the line between lies and truth becomes increasingly blurred.
The show, with its reference to Trump and Brexit, fails to make a crucial distinction. Welles was an artist who gave a radio drama a journalistic urgency: politicians tell pigs for their own purposes. But, run by Hamish MacDougall and Julian Spooner, the program is skillful and witty without the quality of self-advertising that is sometimes found in designed pieces. The four actors simply put a pipe in their mouths to become Orson Welles.
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Benjamin Grant's sound design reminds us of the radio's ability to make the invasion from outer space look plausible. A remote control is used to evoke the delight of a Grover geek in creating fake data that spreads like a virus over the Internet. The cast, which includes Mona Goodwin as podcasting visitor and Amalia Vitale, Matthew Wells and Spooner himself as the strange family he meets, play with great enthusiasm. It's a quick and intelligent show, even if your argument that you can make believe that something was nullified by Welles himself in his final magic film, F for Fake.
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