The Dark Angel visits the battlefield. 

She carries her paperwork and her description of research to be done. 

How close does one ever come to death? 

Can we refuse to accept it just the way we refuse a mistaken delivery?

Alec Effson has her own questions.   Act 2 of “Your Results May Vary.”

Cast, in order of appearance:

[24360 Act 2]

“The Closest I’ve Come to Death”

How close is close? 

A desert.  A forgotten conflict.  A pair of lost souls. One trying to make a make as daring scientist.  The other trying to be forgotten as a loyal soldier.  Neither can get what they want nor can they fulfill the needs of the other.  

A story of science on the battlefield.  In a time fairly close to our own and in a place not that far away.

Cast

Written and Produced by David Alan Grier

Music and Sound Design by Hilbert Space with additional music from Alibi Music under license

The story begins.

A distance battlefield.

A recent defeat.

And a woman who needs an answer to the question “How close I have been to death?”

First act from the show “Your Results May Vary.”

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[24360 A1.0]

Professionals need professional help.

  Dr. May visits his colleague Dr. X-Tra over his psycholinguistic crisis that is driven by one, very specific word.  

Dr. X-Tra, in his turn, has many ways of thinking about this issue.

A third scene from the practice of a San Franciscan Black Psychiatrist. 

Cast, in order of appearance:

[24215]

Warning: This episode contains language that some may find offensive.

Produced by San Francisco Recovery Theatre and HWMS Audio Theatre

One a scale form 1 to 7, how is close is close?

This is warfare.  Mostly death is far, far away.  A score of 7 on a Likert Scale.  But there are moment, moments when it is much more intimate. 

This is warfare.

Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of shear terror.

That is warfare.

Alec Effson volunteers for logistics duty and receives the delivery of something that was not  expected. 

A scene from “Your Results May Vary.”

Cast, in order of appearance:

[24360 s 4.0]

Full Show Coming Fall 2024

“To everything there is a season.”

So we’ve been told.

A time to sit.  A time to stand.  A time to stay in camp.  A time to go down to the end of the town,  And, of course, a time to come back 

A military camp is a novelty to Alec Effson.  It holds stories that she does not yet know and yearns to understand,  Tonight, she is looking for her friend, Captain Pritel, and agrees to stand guard while the captain is sought.  

Guard.  What is she guarding.  A scene from “Your Results May Vary.”

Cast, in order of appearance:

[24360 S.3.0]

Full Show Coming Fall 2024

You think you can be strong.  You think there is nothing to fear.  Not even fear itself.  

Alec certainly believes that she has the qualities that will allow her to survive on the battlefield until she meets that grim visage, “The Records Clerk of Death.”

Monologue from the upcoming production by HWMS Audio Theatre: “Your Results May Vary.”  

Cast, in order of appearance:

[24300 S2.0]

Full Show Coming Fall 2024

Alec Effson.  A scholar.  A researcher.  A small town teacher.  Comes to a battle zone to learn something about leadership.  Quickly, she finds that death is standing nearby.  As a good student of the natural world, she asks the obvious question:

How close is close?

And how might you measure that closeness?

And it is closer than your nearest friend?

Monologue from the upcoming production by HWMS Audio Theatre: “Your Results May Vary.”

Cast, in order of appearance:

[24300 S1.0]

Full Show Coming Fall 2024

For any mental health professional, one patient follows another.

When the walls are thin enough, (as they often were for Black doctors in the 1960s, one patient can hear the session can hear the prior session.

So now our psych faces a patient who objects to the advice given in the an earlier patient. He has “do no harm,” try to provide a little help to a patient in need, and make sense of his own thoughts at this time.  

A second scene from the practice of a San Franciscan Black Psychiatrist. 

Cast, in order of appearance:

[24210]

Warning: This episode contains language that some may find offensive.

Produced by San Francisco Recovery Theatre and HWMS Audio Theatre

San Francisco

Once the Harlem of the West.

Once a city with a vibrant and exciting Black culture.

It then faces the Civil Rights movement.

The Black Power Movement.

And a pair of Black Psychiatrists trying to make sense of of this thing called racism

Cast, in order of appearance:

[24205]

Warning: This episode contains language that some may find offensive. 

Produced by San Francisco Recovery Theatre and HWMS Audio Theatre