You For Me For You | BCA Plaza Theatre

This audio sample is a mixdown of the music and sound effects from the second scene of the play, where the sisters go to a doctor in their small village in North Korea. Again and again the sisters go to the doctor’s office trying to make him see they are starving, until things take a sinister turn. The scene begins with the sister’s theme played on the fruit box guitar as bright fluorescent lights blink on and a close recording of a fluorescent ballast is played through the speakers. The time between each visit to the doctor’s office is separated by a whirl of lights, the whining of servo motor, and punctuated by the sound of a metal stool ringing as someone sits down on the unsteady seat. Each visit increases the volume of the fluorescent buzz, and when the doctor reveals himself as a not just a willfully obtuse puppet of the system, but a cruel man in his own right, the buzz is replaced by the ballast of a flickering light, representing the descent into an even worse fate than the harsh clinical environment, one with a whole other set of dangers. The sisters escape from the man that should have been helping them, as their theme is played again, fading into the sounds of their rice paddy, full of frogs providing a comforting natural counterbalance to the sterile and hostile environment of the clinic.