My overall impression
Ratner’s “Voices in My Head” is more than your average memory play. In less than an hour, he expertly guides us on a journey through not just his own life, but the kind of life that many in the creative and entertainment fields will recognize: early infatuation with all manner of media, the need for attention, the yearning to find one’s own voice and share it with the world, reckoning with love and loss and transmuting it into artistic expression, and finally, pondering the sublime mysteries of life and human existence itself.
Ratner was born with more than great “pipes,” as they say in the trade; he’s an almost supernaturally gifted raconteur with the seemingly effortless ability to weave spellbinding narratives about virtually any subject that comes to mind. The film “My Dinner With Andre” came close; an evening with Bill Ratner is the real deal.
