Jan 2, 2010

Radio Golf | Setting

In many ways, Radio Golf is all about the places we do not see. First among those unseen locations is the area known as the Hill, where Harmond plans his development project. Although renderings of the construction site are presented in the play, we never actually see them. More importantly, we do not see the area that is about to be torn down: we do not see what is being sacrificed in the name of “revitalization.”

We also do not see the house on 1830 Wylie owned by Old Joe (also known as Aunt Ester’s house). We do not see the various paintings of the exterior of the...