Look, but Mostly Listen: Remembering Sept. 11
Ken JaworowskiFebruary 19, 2014: The portentous narration begins soon after Dan Rather delivers a windy recorded video message to start “Bikeman: A 9/11 Play,” a docudrama by Thomas F. Flynn that recounts his experiences on Sept. 11, 2001. “Nothing in my garden gave a hint of the pain, the hurt and the deep sorrow that would manifest in salty tears on the cheeks of neighborhoods after,” Tom (Robert Cuccioli) says. Why a garden would foretell plane crashes, or later, how Tom would know that a sea gull following him was looking down, “eyes staring and perturbed, mystified, wondering what we have done here,” are just two of the many peculiar questions raised by Mr. Flynn’s script.
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