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Two Plays for Voices

Two Plays for Voices

List Price: $18.95
Your Price: $12.89
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Gaiman got game
Review: I'm a fan...Neil's worst works still qualify as excellent in my mind, and these are some of his best. I read these stories when they were published 10 years ago in a small distribution book called Angels and Visitations. Then I saw them reprinted again in another book some years later.

The two plays in this package provided my wife and I the best entertainment we were going to get while being stuck in 8 hours of traffic. Finally I got my wife to pay attention to Neil's stuff (she refused to read Sandman)and she dug it.

If you like books on tape, this is better. If you like reading Neil's work, you'll like it even better this way.

Neil, if you're reading this...can we have some more of these?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Gaiman got game
Review: I'm a fan...Neil's worst works still qualify as excellent in my mind, and these are some of his best. I read these stories when they were published 10 years ago in a small distribution book called Angels and Visitations. Then I saw them reprinted again in another book some years later.

The two plays in this package provided my wife and I the best entertainment we were going to get while being stuck in 8 hours of traffic. Finally I got my wife to pay attention to Neil's stuff (she refused to read Sandman)and she dug it.

If you like books on tape, this is better. If you like reading Neil's work, you'll like it even better this way.

Neil, if you're reading this...can we have some more of these?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Absolutely INCREDIBLE.
Review: The voices truly bring the stories to life. An absolute must-have for any Gaiman fan.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great theatre for the mind's eye
Review: These are great "radio plays" based on Neil Gaiman's short stories. Murder Mysteries has also been a graphic novel, and now a radio play. Terrific performances, though in truth I preferred the graphic novel.

The better of the two is Snow Glass Apples with Bebe Neuwirth. It is really chilling and horrific, especially considering that it is based on one of the most famous fairy tales (and Disney movie) of all time.

The plays are a step beyond the usual audio book, and you can't go wrong with a Neil Gaiman story. Now if only someone would adapt some of his Sandman tales...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great theatre for the mind's eye
Review: These are great "radio plays" based on Neil Gaiman's short stories. Murder Mysteries has also been a graphic novel, and now a radio play. Terrific performances, though in truth I preferred the graphic novel.

The better of the two is Snow Glass Apples with Bebe Neuwirth. It is really chilling and horrific, especially considering that it is based on one of the most famous fairy tales (and Disney movie) of all time.

The plays are a step beyond the usual audio book, and you can't go wrong with a Neil Gaiman story. Now if only someone would adapt some of his Sandman tales...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great audio plays
Review: These two audio plays by Neil Gaiman were quite entertainning and full of intrigue. I did not know exactly what to expect when I purchased this set but I am glad I did. Both plays had excellent acting and sound design. Both stories caught my attention and i spent the better part of the evening glued to my headphones. I hope there will be future productions such as this. This book contains 2 CDs. Each story features a full cast dramatization. "Snow White Apples" leans to the horror/ dark fantasy genre; while "Murder Mysteries" is a supernaturel who done it of sorts. There is however a clever twist ending in the second play sort of a mystery within a mystery. I really enjoyed them both.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great audio plays
Review: These two audio plays by Neil Gaiman were quite entertainning and full of intrigue. I did not know exactly what to expect when I purchased this set but I am glad I did. Both plays had excellent acting and sound design. Both stories caught my attention and i spent the better part of the evening glued to my headphones. I hope there will be future productions such as this. This book contains 2 CDs. Each story features a full cast dramatization. "Snow White Apples" leans to the horror/ dark fantasy genre; while "Murder Mysteries" is a supernaturel who done it of sorts. There is however a clever twist ending in the second play sort of a mystery within a mystery. I really enjoyed them both.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Seeing Ear Theatre
Review: Two Plays For Voices is part of the Seeing Ear Theatre Productions from the Sci-Fi Channel. More television stations should follow their lead. These two stories told in the form of radio plays are terrific! I am a big fan of Neil Gaiman and this format brings two incredible stories to life.

Murder Mysteries is expertly presented and the twist at the end is a surprise to say the least.

Snow Glass Apples is a shivery fairy tale which cuts to the core of good vs. evil and that some things aren't always what they seem.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Seeing Ear Theatre
Review: Two Plays For Voices is part of the Seeing Ear Theatre Productions from the Sci-Fi Channel. More television stations should follow their lead. These two stories told in the form of radio plays are terrific! I am a big fan of Neil Gaiman and this format brings two incredible stories to life.

Murder Mysteries is expertly presented and the twist at the end is a surprise to say the least.

Snow Glass Apples is a shivery fairy tale which cuts to the core of good vs. evil and that some things aren't always what they seem.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Two tellings of disturbing (and enjoyable) tales...
Review: Two very disturbing stories from Neil Gaiman, this was a duet of short plays adapted for "Seeing Ear Theatre" and read by Bebe Neuwirth ("Snow Glass Apples") and Brian Dennehy ("Murder Mystery.")

"Snow Glass Apples" was a re-telling of Snow White with a ghastly vampiric twist, and from the voice of the Queen, who is anything but the Disnified villainess we've come to know and loathe. Snow White is herself a disturbing figure, and all in all, this was a very enjoyable re-telling of a classic, if a tad gruesome in its telling and conclusion.

"Murder Mystery" I found quite wonderful - it is a tale that includes the investigation of the first murder ever - an angel has been killed, and another angel is called to investigate. The B-plot story, however, just plain didn't make sense.

If I had to break them into two parts, "Snow Glass Apples" would get a '5' and "Murder Mystery" would get a '3.' Hence the '4.'

'Nathan


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