Reunion (A Return to Juarez)

1992
Terry Allen
Written as a movie screenplay, this work entails a series of simultaneous events — described from a variety of vantage points. Its four main characters: a Texas sailor, a Mexican prostitute, a Mexican-born pachuco (gangster) and his girl friend, an enigmatic "witch." Moving in violent motion through the modern-day American West, they are as much atmospheric conditions hurtling through space as they are human beings of flesh and bone. Told in a sonic environment of raw musics and sound effects, Reunion is a desperate journey across the borderlands of the American psyche, the dreams of surviving it and passing through the wilderness to the promised land . . . that hopeless rapture. Told by Jo Harvey Allen with music by Terry Allen. Commissioned by New American Radio.