Signal to Noise: A present day dystopia

By Richard Rosario

When ordinary people stop being able to distinguish truth from noise, democracy doesn't collapse-it suffocates. Signal to Noise is a political thriller that asks the question haunting our current moment: What will you do when they come for your neighbors?
This two-act play follows multiple characters navigating an America sliding into authoritarianism-a journalist risking everything to report truth, a federal agent awakening to her own complicity, protesters facing state violence, and the architects of tyranny who justify cruelty as patriotism. At its core, this isn't a play about politics; it's a play about choice-the daily decisions we make between comfort and conscience, between silence and resistance, between looking away and bearing witness.
Signal to Noise draws from deep historical wells-Japanese internment, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO-while holding up a mirror to contemporary patterns of information warfare, scapegoating, and the normalization of cruelty. The play walks a tonal razor's edge between dark satire (think Dr. Strangelove) and genuine tragedy (think Angels in America), creating the cognitive dissonance that defines our current reality: one moment we're laughing at absurdity; the next we're confronting horror. Theatrically, this play is designed to be visceral and immediate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8HZSCB1
• ISBN13: 9798186536062
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"