PocketBear’s OnGoing Series by Robert Moulthrop

A word from Robert Moulthrop, writer of PocketBear's OnGoing series: 

OnGoing Now Is The Time …
 
A rational response to our current situation seems unhelpful, useless, and inauthentic. A decimating pandemic continues to rage; society rightly demands an end to systemic racism; yet we are living under the blanket of a Reality Show government designed only for photo ops and greed. I think absurd is the artistic answer. 

But not just absurd: somehow we need to allow a search for meaning. Parting the mists of the last century we find a somewhat similar upheaval in the 1960s, which is where I found inspiration for these short plays. The Sixties was when Eugene Ionesco was writing about the stasis of convention (The Bald Soprano) and the dangers of conformity (Rhinoceros). And when one of the playwrighting giants, Harold Pinter, made us look at the thin ice of relationships and demanded we regard with a focused stare, the disturbances of truth.  
Working with actor and director Anthony Caruso, while we are all locked down in our individual spaces, meant thinking of people trapped in their own spaces, alone, with others. I’ve always liked working in a short form, and these audio dramas seemed to fit perfectly on a small canvas.  But even as I reached back to Ionesco and Pinter, I wanted these characters to be as real as … well, do we really know what our next-door neighbors or the couple down the hall are thinking and doing these days?
 
Robert Moulthrop / Playwright / New York City, June 2020

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