The Land Of Mystery

by Jennifer Allen & Drew Pisarra



Musical excerpt by Miss Murgatroid & Petra Hayden




In an age in which violence is either glorified or accepted as a matter of fact, the questioning of Motive has become largely moot, a pedantic concern secondary to the particulars of the very crime itself. As a culture we delight in the titillating detail and thereby distract ourselves from the Cause which led to the Effect. In short, “what’s goin’ on” supersedes “whodunit.”


Equally enamored of distractions if somewhat more committed to the chase, The Land of Mystery pulls out the old metaphorical magnifying glass to take an albeit distorted look at the character types and the plot scenarios which typify the mystery genre. Mimetic movement scenarios reflecting the myriad sub-genres unique to mystery (suspense, espionage, hard-boiled detective, true crime, occult...) alternate with live episodes from a serialized radio play recounting the exploits of the world-famous private investigative team of Charles and Eleanor Kittredge (who this time out may have stumbled on a modern day witch hunt... or is it a conspiracy?)

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In its efforts to make sense of it all, The Land of Mystery commingles these disjointed streams of action and ends up performing in the stream of consciousness. The answers found are outside the strictly sequential, and the interconnections though occasionally oblique are always somehow relevant. The question becomes the big question; the answer, the mystery itself.


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