An excerpt from the opening scene of "Our Time is Up," an experimental audio drama starring C. Juanita Bowman (1900 - 2000) as “Helen,” Josiah Patton (1919 - 2009) as her husband “Jake,” and Erin Anderson (1983 - ) as their marriage counselor. This drama was written, performed, and produced in the year 2014, following the deaths of the two main actors, using fragments of archival audio from their oral history recordings. These recordings have been extracted from the original context of their articulation, reassembled into new performative utterances, and sutured together to create a shared dramatic narrative. The voices and experiences of the characters do not represent the intentions or experiences of their original speakers. 

This drama is a work of fiction. 

Headphones recommended.

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