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The Vanishing Negative

By: Aaron Mark
Narrated by: Betty Buckley
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Eccentric psychic medium Celeste Fox has enjoyed a decades-long career in the public eye, coaching people through exciting and challenging times with her unique spiritual insight. Her reputation takes a significant blow after a recent public appearance results in a tragic death. To defend herself against wild accusations and sensational media coverage, Celeste books a recording studio in Manhattan where she aims to take control of her own narrative by recording an episode of a new podcast. As the episode progresses, Celeste divulges details from her past and weaves an intricate tale from which she has difficulty untangling herself, even as the stakes of her confession mount.

Playwright Aaron Mark was awarded a commission through the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, an initiative dedicated to developing innovative original plays driven by language and voice. As an Audible commissioned playwright, he received funding and creative support to develop Vanishing Negative.

Portions of this audiobook contain mature language and themes. Listener discretion is advised.

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About the Creator

Aaron Mark is a writer and director of theater, audio, film, and TV, currently based in Los Angeles by way of Houston and New York City. He is the creator, writer, and director of Gimlet Media/Spotify's hit fiction podcast The Horror of Dolores Roach (starring Daphne Rubin-Vega, Bobby Cannavale, Richard Kind, Vanessa Williams, Michael Urie, Lea DeLaria, Donnell Rawlings, and Amy Ryan, among others), currently in development for TV with Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television, with whom he is under a first-look deal. Mark has written and directed three acclaimed one-person horror plays Off-Broadway: Empanada Loca (LAByrinth Theater Company, with Rubin-Vega; three Drama Desk nominations, Outer Critics Circle nomination), Squeamish (All For One at Theatre Row, with Alison Fraser; OCC nomination), and Another Medea (All For One at the Cherry Lane and Wild Project, with Tom Hewitt), all published by Dramatists Play Service and performed internationally. Other plays include Deer, also published by DPS and recently given its Italian-language premiere. Favorite theater directing credits include Ben Rimalower's long-running, award-winning Patti Issues and Bad with Money; The Mystery of Irma Vep, and Deathtrap for Berkshire Theatre Group; and Hedwig and the Angry Inch for BC/EFA at New World Stages. Mark is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and a member of the Writers Guild of America West and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

About the Performer

Betty Buckley is a multi-award-winning actress and singer whose career spans theater, film, television, and concert halls around the world. She is a 2012 Theater Hall of Fame for Inductee and a 2017 recipient of the Julie Harris Award from The Actors Fund for Artistic Achievement. She won a Tony Award for Cats and received her second Tony Award nomination for Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination in London for her performance in Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.
She headlined the first national tour of the new Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! from fall 2018 through August 2019.
Her other Broadway credits include 1776, Pippin, Song and Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Carrie. She starred in the London production of Dear World in 2013 and Promises, Promises (Evening Standard nomination).
Off Broadway she has starred in The Old Friends (2014 Drama Desk nomination), White’s Lies, Juno’s Swans, and Edwin Drood for New York Stage and Film, and Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road. Regional credits include The Perfectionist, Gypsy, Threepenny Opera, Camino Real, Buffalo Gal, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Grey Gardens (2016 Ovation Award nomination).
Her film credits include M. Night Shyamalan’s 2017 hit film Split, in which she costars with James McAvoy and received a Saturn Award nomination. Other film credits include Shyamalan’s The Happening, Brian de Palma’s Carrie, Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies, Roman Polanski’s Frantic, Woody Allen’s Another Woman, and Lawrence Kasden’s Wyatt Earp.
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Worth the listen! I was a little confused at first, but I hung in there and I was so glad I did. The story is a bit dark, and there definitely is some adult content. So I wouldn’t listen while kiddos are in hearing rage. I cleaned while I listened and before I knew it my chores were done and the book was finished. So good!

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I bought this performance (not sure what to call this as it's not a book...or is it?) because the audio sample harked me back to old radio shows that allow listeners to use their imagination in ways that listening to books being narrated do not. Betty Buckley's voice and acting sucked me right in. I started listening to The Vanishing Negative and got sucked in so deeply that I couldn't tell you what I did while listening. Perhaps stood in my hallway staring into space watching Betty in that audio booth?

I LOVE how Aaron Mark started us on a story and as soon as we were onto that thread he caught up another thread and we soon found ourselves dangling from that one and then the next thread. It was like dancing with a very knowing spider. Betty Buckley seemed to hook her arm in ours and spirit us along conspiratorially as we followed the spider and as the story got juicer and darker her power and magnetism seemed to keep expanding. THE VANISHING NEGATIVE was absorbing and I want MORE! BETTY BUCKLEY is a tour de force who could and should take Audible by storm!

Refreshingly Entertaining! Delicious Story Arc!

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Didn't know what to expect when I added this to my library... Wow, what a story! Awesome performance by Betty Buckley.

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I typically stick to longer books to get the most of my credits, but thank goodness I took a chance on this short story as it may be the BEST one I've ever listened to and I have 440+ titles!!

I am going to stalk the author and narrators for any and all previous and future work, in hopes to find more with this impressive quality.

WOW, WOW, WOWWW! My new #1 favorite!

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Couldn’t stop listening! Story was fascinating. Miss Buckley was amazing. I felt like I was watching a Broadway show! What a performance!

Simply wonderful!

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