COMING SOON: Before I Leave for Lunastrasse
A full-length audio play with music and soundscaping (70-minutes)
Before I Leave for LunastrasseÂ
(shtetl morning)
Written and Performed by Emma Tattenbaum-Fine
Directed, Composed and Sound Designed by Preston MartinÂ
Synopsis and a little audio teaser:
The year is 2081. Emma, a wise, spry, elder-millennial, is 95 years old and preparing to leave for the first human settlement on the moon. The risk is enormous, but the earth is no longer comfortably habitable, and the chance to be part of something historic beckons. Newness is hard to bear, but Emma, with her storied past, has come to accept that everything is fleeting and change, the only constant.Â
In the last two hours in her Brighton Beach apartment she welcomes your company. Making fraught peace with her life's journey and its uncertain meaning, her past lives, ghosts, and memories guide her forward as her life on earth ends and a brave new world begins.
The full 70-minute audio play is currently under consideration for The Tribeca Film Festival: Audio Storytelling — it will be released in full, right here, on May 10th!
I absolutely loved this story. I love how you weave real life elements with a fictional future. And I love the sound design. It’s such a nice accompaniment to the words, taking me along the journey. And your voice acting is fabu. Well done, Emma. Well done.
I loved this so much. The sound and music evoked so much feeling adding a new dimension to the stories. Kudos to you and Preston.