Time Play

"David and I met a few months ago, but it feels like it’s been so much longer.

Sometimes, when we’re alone together, we pretend that we’re other people, living different lives in completely far away spaces of time. We imagine these characters as ourselves, only slightly different versions. They laugh like us, they smile like us, they even dream like us.

How many times can we play this game before we become all that we imagine?" - Chelsea Kigano

This piece was produced in 2020 by Chelsea Kigano, Lily Sloane, Lilia Vega, and Emily Shaw, as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project. Music and sound design by Lily Sloane, with "Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay" by Ed Andrews from the public domain. Special thanks to David Lee.

Time Play was featured in the "Lost Futures" episode of BBC Radio 4's Short Cuts in December 2024.