From The Burdens of Silence - Arts Independent, April 2021, Brendan McCall writes

To kick off its 21st season, Off-Broadway´s Keen Company pivoted from presenting live productions into offering an online-only season of audio plays in a series entitled “Hear/Now”. The first, 1993 by the multi-talented finkle, is an eight-part radio drama

Hold on a sec: 1993´s not really a radio drama. Maybe it´d be more accurate to describe this piece as…an online musical? The piece has a number of original songs which appear throughout the episodes, all written & performed by finkle.

Sorry, no, “musical” isn’t quite right, either. 1993 feels closer to a concept album, except this one is wrapped in the digital pages of a Playbill. One of the characters is spending that year recording an album on a 4-track, and listeners could interpret the songs in 1993 as excerpts from that demo recording. And, like quintessential examples of the genre (“Quadrophenia”, “American Idiot”, “Sgt. Pepper´s Lonely Hearts Club Band”), 1993´s audio episodes feature characters (all played by finkle) and scenes (in a script he wrote) that unfold like tracks on a double-LP, interconnecting by theme more than dramatic action. Rather than progressing forward in a realistic linear narrative, these eight almost psychedelic episodes fit together like tiles of an almost psychedelic mosaic, perhaps describing a dream or a memory whose logic remains elusive. finkle´s piece is about sex, about identity, about AIDS; it is also about the burdens of silence, of memory´s complicated intimacy between the past and the present. Listening to 1993 feels like a raw, intimate conversation with a stranger."

You can find 1993 on all podcast platforms as a part of the Keen Company’s Hear/Now season.

On Spotify, On Itunes. Or you can listen to it on Keen’s website HERE.

for 1993, the album, click HERE

In January 2021 Keen Company hosted a conversation about 1993 and the AIDS movement. Hosted by Jonathan Silverstein featuring:

David Drake: Playwright, Director, Actor, Author, and Artistic Director of The Provincetown Theater

Kenny Finkle: Theatermaker, Creator of "1993"

Alejandro Santiago: Support Assistant, GMHC’s Terry Brenneis Hub for Long-Term Survivors

Krishna Stone: Director of Community Relations, GMHC