Somewhere Next Door to Reality
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Somewhere Next Door To Reality is a radio drama
, produced by the ZBS Foundation
. It is the fourteenth of the Jack Flanders
adventure series and the second of the Travelling Jack sub-series. It combines elements of Old-time radio
with psychic
phenomena, supernatural
beings and energies.
because they do not please us,
things that are so,
we spend our entire lives
making meaningless gestures
somewhere next door to reality." Nan Shin
Mojo is playing piano at Lucky Pierre's in Montreal and he needs Jack
to help him and Dominique out. It seems that some people are fading in and out of reality whilst some have faded away altogether. Mojo has caught a glimpse of another city, another Montreal - vague and insubstantial but there none-the-less.
As Jack roams the streets, listening to the haunting accordion music played by a blind street musician, he notices a remarkably beautiful woman who fades in and out right in front of him. Talking to her doesn't help Jack solve his problem, in fact it gets him the name 'Cul-de-sac Jack' for his pains but he can't help being drawn to this mysterious and attractive woman who seems to live somewhere next door to reality.
Dominique: "Of course! Your food is your country; fast, fat and no taste."
Jack: "Why is it every time I meet you I feel like I've come to a dead end?"
Claudine: "Cul-de-sac
, Jack."
Shop Assistant: "You look like a famous French lyricist."
Jack: "Oh really. Which one?"
Shop Assistant: "Jacques Prévert
"
Mojo: "That's right."
Voices recorded and mixed at Froggy Acres, Fort Miller, NY.
"Special thanks to John Romkey and to all friends of ZBS
who helped to make this series possible."
Radio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
, produced by the ZBS Foundation
ZBS Foundation
ZBS Foundation, a small non-profit audio production company, was founded by Thomas Lopez in 1970 with a grant from Robert E. Durand as a working commune based on a donated farm in Upstate New York...
. It is the fourteenth of the Jack Flanders
Jack Flanders
Jack Flanders is the protagonist of a series of audio dramas produced by the ZBS Foundation. He is the creation of writer and sound artist Thomas Lopez and is played by actor Robert Lorick....
adventure series and the second of the Travelling Jack sub-series. It combines elements of Old-time radio
Old-time radio
Old-Time Radio and the Golden Age of Radio refer to a period of radio programming in the United States lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until television's replacement of radio as the primary home entertainment medium in the 1950s...
with psychic
Psychic
A psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...
phenomena, supernatural
Supernatural
The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...
beings and energies.
Plot
"By not quite accepting,because they do not please us,
things that are so,
we spend our entire lives
making meaningless gestures
somewhere next door to reality." Nan Shin
Mojo is playing piano at Lucky Pierre's in Montreal and he needs Jack
Jack Flanders
Jack Flanders is the protagonist of a series of audio dramas produced by the ZBS Foundation. He is the creation of writer and sound artist Thomas Lopez and is played by actor Robert Lorick....
to help him and Dominique out. It seems that some people are fading in and out of reality whilst some have faded away altogether. Mojo has caught a glimpse of another city, another Montreal - vague and insubstantial but there none-the-less.
As Jack roams the streets, listening to the haunting accordion music played by a blind street musician, he notices a remarkably beautiful woman who fades in and out right in front of him. Talking to her doesn't help Jack solve his problem, in fact it gets him the name 'Cul-de-sac Jack' for his pains but he can't help being drawn to this mysterious and attractive woman who seems to live somewhere next door to reality.
Quotes
Sam: "I read somewhere that America has the largest number of over-weight poor people in the world."Dominique: "Of course! Your food is your country; fast, fat and no taste."
Jack: "Why is it every time I meet you I feel like I've come to a dead end?"
Claudine: "Cul-de-sac
Cul-de-sac
A cul-de-sac is a word of French origin referring to a dead end, close, no through road or court meaning dead-end street with only one inlet/outlet...
, Jack."
Shop Assistant: "You look like a famous French lyricist."
Jack: "Oh really. Which one?"
Shop Assistant: "Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain very popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time.-Life and...
"
Mojo: "That's right."
Credits
- Jack FlandersJack FlandersJack Flanders is the protagonist of a series of audio dramas produced by the ZBS Foundation. He is the creation of writer and sound artist Thomas Lopez and is played by actor Robert Lorick....
- Robert LorickRobert LorickRobert Lorick is an actor and lyricist, best known as a Broadway lyricist and for his work portraying Jack Flanders, a character in an ongoing series of ZBS Foundation audio adventures. In 1972, he made his debut as a lyricist with the Off-Broadway musical Hark! at the Mercer-O'Casey Theatre... - Mojo Sam - Dave Adams
- Dominique - Lindsay Ellision
- Madame Ciao (Claudine) - Pascale Poirier
- Isabelle - Elisa Darrow
- Waiter - Matt Funciello
- Narrator - Kirby Airs
- Producer/Director/Engineer - Tom LopezThomas LopezThomas Lopez, aka Meatball Fulton, is one of the founders and president of the ZBS Foundation. He writes and produces the ZBS Foundation's audio drama productions. Some of these aired in 1984-85 as part of ZBS' stereo radio series The Cabinet of Dr. Fritz.His output includes the entire Jack...
- Writer - Meatball FultonThomas LopezThomas Lopez, aka Meatball Fulton, is one of the founders and president of the ZBS Foundation. He writes and produces the ZBS Foundation's audio drama productions. Some of these aired in 1984-85 as part of ZBS' stereo radio series The Cabinet of Dr. Fritz.His output includes the entire Jack...
- Music - Tim Clark
- Illustration/Graphics - Jaye Oliver
- Linguistic Consultant - Pascale Poirier
Voices recorded and mixed at Froggy Acres, Fort Miller, NY.
"Special thanks to John Romkey and to all friends of ZBS
ZBS
ZBS stands for* ZBS Foundation* Zugbeeinflussungssystem S-Bahn Berlin...
who helped to make this series possible."
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