Extinction

This is a play written by Australian, Hannie Rayson, and produced by LATW and is part of the AudioSync File summer 2021 program. I frankly don't like LATW stuff but did listen to this one today. The negatives is the use of profanity/swearing/sexual content for a book offered to youth. What I enjoyed; the subject matter of animal endangered for extinction and the battles of environmentalist and the money that big business can offer (sleeping with the enemy), also the exploration of the illness of pets and whether to save or euthanize. I read this because it fit my bingo square for less than 20 LT members.

This didn't quite win me over. It was sort of interesting but I'm not quite sure what the point was supposed to be. It covers environmental stuff, relationships, an incurable disease, business stuff, endangered species, people hooking up....It was kind of all over the place. It's a play so maybe it's meant to watch being acted out instead of just read.

FROM AMAZON: A zoologist in Australia gets funding to save an endangered species from the very company that threatens its existence. Will this deal with the devil allow her to save the species, or will it destroy her entire life's work?

Includes an interview with playwright Hannie Rayson and director Martin Jarvis.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in September 2020.

Extinction is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Seriesis provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Directed by Martin Jarvis

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Seamus Dever as Harry Jewell

Sarah Drew as Dr. Piper Ross

Darren show more Richardson as Andy Dixon

Joanne Whalley as Prof. Heather Dixon-Brown

Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson

Recording Engineer, Editor, Sound Designer: Neil Wogensen

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

Mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood show less