Production, author, producer, director & sound engineer: Jürg Andreas Meister
Other key staff Naomi Araiwa, Fabian Krause, Richard Stoiber, Swantje Reuter
Synopsis:
One charming night / gives more delight / than a hundred lucky days.
But what happens after that charming night? Three voices from different eras ask about love, decision, and fear. Trapped in a web of images, the protagonist receives a blackmail email claiming they were filmed while watching pornography. Reflecting on love triggers other memories: once there was that little raisin named Nasha, who never came into the world — because the protagonist chose it that way.
Burdened by shame and memory, they search for contact with themselves and for a way through the contradictions of love. How wonderful it would be if that, too, could simply be bought with a few bitcoins. Instead, they are merely told to scream — what bullshit.
The radio play reimagines two songs by Henry Purcell: “One Charming Night” (lyrics: anonymous) and “O Solitude” (lyrics: Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, trans. Katherine Philips). It spans the emotional scale in which loving individuals today find themselves — between total symbiosis and profound loneliness. Purcell already knew how easily one can lose oneself there.
