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From The Director: Even after we humans have explored every inch of the universe, War of the Worlds will still appeal to us. It illustrates one of the deepest fears we have shared through the centuries - the fear of an unknown and uncaring menace destroying our lives without giving any warning. We see and hear echoes of that fear every day, with memories of the September 11 terrorist attacks still fresh in our minds as we continue these several years later to witness the destruction wrought by nature in Hurricane Katrina. The live rendition of sound effects in Pottsy's creative adaptation links this performance to the 1938 radio broadcast when listeners had barely recovered from radio reports of the Hindenberg disaster and as radio was becoming the messenger bearing news of Hitler's bloody march across Europe. Though that was almost seven decades ago, and the H.G. Wells novel it was adapted from was 40 years before that, the horror of the story still rings true. And if we occasionally acknowledge that fear, it can only serve to make us hold our loved ones a little closer. -- Diane Kerner Arnett |
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