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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 h...