Experience Our Trio of Audio Dramas
Sound Stage is back for 2024. Your door to audio drama by talented artists, wherever you are in the world. We’re offering you three online broadcasts created by talented artists from across the UK. And, for both Queer, There and Everywhere and Chekhov Double Bill there is the chance to join in the post-show discussion.
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Queer, There and Everywhere
Created by Emma Barr with support from Prime Theatre and Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Sound Designer and Composer Ben Occhipinti
Queer. Joy. Queer Joy. A statement or a protest? What does it mean to be Queer now? How do we find joy with so many barriers socially, politically, internally?
Join 15 emerging queer artists aged 16 to 25 from across the UK, Europe and Canada as they reflect on their personal experiences as LGBTQIA+ young people and investigate the queer history of their home countries.
This hour-long performance features monologues, poetry and songs knitted together to create one queer celebration for LGBTQIA+ history month. Each artist reflected on their own journeys of self-discovery and strength as well as investigating the ‘queeroes’ of the past.
Helping Hands
written by Cathy Forde
Helping Hands tells the story of Rose, an agency support worker, who gives care to the elderly and vulnerable in her community. Hilda is one of those clients.
One day when both women find themselves in crisis, a relationship develops that neither woman expected but both desperately needed. Whilst Rose battles to understand Hilda’s determination to stay at home no matter how physically frail she becomes, Hilda is determined not to allow Rose to take the same path in life as she has, stifled by expectation and compromise. However, whilst the relationship is developing, Hilda is choosing to make a decision that will change everything.
Premiered on Sound Stage in November 2021, this play is both a moving and celebratory tale of friendship in times of need.
About Love / Trouble
A double of monologues adapted by Elizabeth Newman from Anton Chekhov stories.
About Love performed by Ali Watt
In this tragic and elegiac story, Alekhin poignantly shares with us his feelings for a married woman and also his logically reasoned decision, maintained over many years, not to declare them – it would be dishonourable to break up her family; her love might cool in the dullness of his own humdrum existence.
Trouble performed by Matthew Churcher
It is 1890 in a small-town in-between Moscow and St Petersburg, and we find Avdeyev crying and begging prison guards to help him as they escort him to his cell. Avdeyev has been found guilty of theft that very day and has been sentenced to exile in the province of Tobolsk.
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