Rebecca is the only human character in our radio drama. She has been accidently teleported into an alien base in the Andromeda Galaxy. It was realised very early on that to make the radio drama work we would need a human ‘Everyman’ character to whom the audience could relate and perhaps more importantly provide them a window onto the world in which she finds herself. This is because the only other biological life form, Lexon has been living in the building his entire life and therefore he has no need of explanations regarding the world around him, leaving the listener with little idea as to what is happening. Rebecca Montogomery, who becomes in many ways the audience for the other characters needs those answers, meaning we would able to provide them to the listeners.
We also felt it necessary to have a character like Rebecca Montgomery for the sake of conversation. The interactions between Lexon and Jenny are all very well but for the most part they are argumentative or extremely technical. More 'human' dialogue really needs to be between two biological life forms rather than computers.
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