One of the three Papatango New Writing prize-winning audio plays now available to listen to at a theatre near you, Nkenna Akunna’s Some of Us Exist in the Future is an ambitious piece which centres on queer immigrant Chiamaka.
‘So many moments which are brilliantly put together’: THE ENTERTAINMENT – Edinburgh Fringe (Online review) ★★★★
Originally planned to be performed live at Summerhall, Katie Bonna’s audio play, The Entertainment, is “about what we carry around inside us”.
‘Listen, taste, watch, smell & touch the world around you’: The You Play: small acts – Written on the Waves (Online review)
Audio drama small acts is part of 45North’s Written on the Waves series, and the first of the two You Plays.
‘It pulls back the curtain to look beyond the headlines’: MUM CAN YOU HEAR ME? – Living Record estival (Online review)
Streaming as part of the Living Record Festival, this audio play by Bernadett Szabo, for Peripeteia Theatre Company takes inspiration from the recent people trafficking scandal resulting in 39 deaths.
‘Keeps enquiring minds entertained & educated along the way’: THIS NOISY ISLE – Living Record Festival (Online review)
Streaming as part of the Living Record Festival, This Noisy Isle is an audio drama for children based on The Tempest with stories and activities, a prologue, four tracks and story packs.
Produced by Spun Glass Theatre, this immersive piece of theatre…
‘This is as honest as it gets’: A BLOODY SHAMBLES – Living Record Festival (Online review)
This 20-minute audio play is written, performed and sound-designed by Ella Dorman-Gajic. A Bloody Shambles shares a day in the life of Jess, who suffers from both heavy flow and period poverty.
‘It does & should make a viewer think’: We Ask These Questions of Everybody – soundfestival (Online review)
Produced by HERA, We Ask These Questions of Everybody uses text drawn from real conversations; samples, soundscapes and singing. It is performed by a cross-genre, all-disabled ensemble, placing into sharp focus their experience of living under austerity.
‘It’s all rather lovely’: ISLANDER – Radio 4 (BBC Sounds)
New musicals like the award-winning Islander continue to challenge the status quo of what the genre can offer.
The two-hander cast of Kirsty Findlay and Bethany Tennick p…
‘Utterly involving’: THE BARREN AUTHOR – Spiteful Puppet (Online review)
Richard O’Brien returns like a welcome glass of fine wine to take centre stage in the six-part audio piece, The Barren Author, written by Paul Birch from a treatment by director/producer Barnaby Eaton-Jones.