Audio Dramas
Diamond Mines
By Peter Armetta
Here’s a link to our newest story of healing and renewal from the world within:
In it, three children discover that an abandoned tar pit, soon to be developed into a shopping mall, is really a linking place to an eternal world, where they are instructed by a wise but eccentric grandmother. When the tar pit is paved over by the developer father of one of them, the children discover that the real link to the eternal is in themselves. Using this mysterious, new-found ability to help the eternal re-enter the world of time, they force their parents to revise their world view and do the same, if they want their children back again.
Cast: Jason – Josh Rengert; Jasmine – Alyson Ayn Osborn; Martin – Mark Homayoun; Frank/Mr Hilyard – Peter Armetta; Meg/Mrs Norcross – Sharon Mann; Grandmother/Butterfly – Mary Thomas.
Click on the highlighted names below to hear two excerpts!
You’re There, Aren’t You? (3:16) The children discover an unexpected path to the mysterious “dark lake” that leads to the world beyond time.
Every Now Has a Soul! (3:37) A lost secret about time is revealed to all!
The Old Woman and the Sea
By Peter Armetta
Performed with live music and sound effects at Hipbone Studio in November 2009 and now available for free download at http://www.archive.org/details/TheOldWomanandtheSea, this is the story of how an old fisher woman, who is an outcast in a village where the fish have stopped running, undertakes a mythic journey which renews her own soul and the life of her village. In the care of a magical animal guide, she journeys to the bottom of the sea to make a choice between life and death.
With no prior knowledge, this original tale parallels both a traditional Greek folk tale, The Fisherman’s Widow, and a modern dream (see Dream Gallery – Cormorant at the Bottom of the Sea). We truly enter the universal through myth and dream!
Kristina Armetta, Josh Rengert, Alyson Ayn Osborn, Bill Wilson and Peter Armetta portray eleven characters, and Joe Sorce and Ben Gardiner provide a powerful, original musical score for this, our first studio production.
Excerpts below!
(click on the highlighted name to play or download)
You Horrid Children! (3:12) The homeless, nameless children tell the Old Fisher Woman that they’re persecuting her so the stricken fishing village won’t turn on them.
Streaming Upward (2:50) The Old Fisher Woman completes her undersea appointment with her ancestors and finds herself streaming upward, in a sparkling, reborn sea.
Out of the Depths
By Kristina and Peter Armetta
For 3,000 years, the story of the grain goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone, kidnapped by Hades and taken to the underworld, was the basis of a Mystery rite celebrated all over the Mediterranean. The poet Pindar said of it, “Blessed is he who, after beholding this, enters upon the way beneath the earth: he knows the end of life and its beginning given by Zeus.” Out of the Depths is our interwoven re-telling of the ancient myth and a modern story of rebirth from the underworld in the context of intractable political division and strife. (And here’s a link to a modern dream – The Barley Maiden – which shows the Mysteries are very much alive!)
Amy Joe McCarville, Alyson Ayn Osborn, Kristina Armetta, Josh Rengert, Bill Wilson, and Peter Armetta star.
The complete version is available for free download at: http://www.archive.org/details/OutOfTheDepths. You can also check out the excerpts below!
(click on the highlighted name to play or download)
An Earthquake! (2:16) The Maiden Goddess Persephone disappears from the earth to begin her destiny as the link between two worlds.
I’m Not Dead Anymore! (2:26) A modern enactment of an ancient rite overcomes even death.