In 1932 Drury Pifer’s parents, young, poor and ambitious, left the United States for teh mines of South Africa. They returned in 1945, when teh author was eleven years old. During the intervening years this American family has been exposed to a strange colonial amalgam of privilege and austerity. From time to time Mr. Pifer, a playwright and former pilot, alludes to the aduit brutalities of nationalism and economic disaster marching across teh world in teh coarse of his childhood. In his play Object Piece Pifer reflects on the absurdities of commercial insurgence in a world of absurd art
Object Piece
by Drury Pifer
An artist famous for digging ditches in the desert has discovered that the only art in his life’s work has been his wife’s skill as a publicist, and her lover’s photographs of his earth-works. He plans a final performance piece, his suicide, in the form of a grave and a taped encounter between himself and the photographer. The play called for a desert area location and was finaly recorded in the dried remains of Nicasio reservoir during a California year of drought.
Dak: Erik Bauersfeld
Charles: Gail Chugg
Sound Desgn by: Randy Thom
Additonal Sound by: James McKee
Directed by: Erik Bauersfeld
Length: 28:52
To read more about Randy Thom’s early days at KPFA: The First Location
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