Uncle Vanya

In The Water Engine, actors, an announcer, and a sound effects man present a radio play during the 1930s with unerring authenticity. The "play within the play" reveals the story of a young inventor who's found a way to run an engine on distilled water. At first ridiculed, he is courted by crooked lawyers attempting to buy the invention from him on behalf of "certain business interests." After refusing, he is threatened, and when he attempts to give his story to the newspapers, he is murdered alo