This broadcast production of "May 4th Voices" presents David Hassler's play with an all-Kent State University student cast directed by Katherine Burke. The play is composed of first-person narratives about the May 4, 1970, tragedy, taken from the Kent State Shootings Oral History Project. Narrator Maj Ragain's prose poem, "May 4, 1970 / A Memory" provides structure to the drama. These authentic personal stories capture the trauma, confusion and fear experienced by people who witnessed or were involved with the shootings.
The 90-minute production was funded by a grant from the Ohio Humanities Council and by Kent State University's College of Arts & Sciences, History Department, Wick Poetry Center and School of Theatre and Dance.