It was a pleasure, last week, to mingle with an excellent cast for a reading of my new audio play Bring Again the Now of Then on the early years of the Bauhaus. The aim was to establish the correct mix of voices for the piece and, as ever, to ascertain whether another draft of the play is required. Happy to say only small edits are needed.
Read MoreAhead of tomorrow’s launch, the last conversation finds interviewee Jill Korn turn interviewer to speak with Kenny Burnham.
Kenny is a theatre-maker, dramaturg and playwright. His work for stage includes Hollow and They’ll Get You Now You’re Gone. Kenny also featured in the filmed theatre event, A Journey Around My Tenement.
Read MoreWith the launch date of A journey Around My Room fast approaching, we continue with our sequence of interviews. Interviewee Lorenzo Novani turns interviewer to speak with Jill Korn.
Jill is an actor, director and playwright. She has written several audio plays including Collaboration, Confessional, Galore!, Sea Change and The Escort. Jill was one of the collaborators in the filmed theatre event A Journey Around My Tenement, shown 2020. Jill plays the part Madame de Hautcastel.
Read MoreThe new audio play A Journey Around My Room will be available very soon. In the second of our interviews, interviewee David Sillars turns interviewer to speak with Lorenzo Novani.
Lorenzo is an actor, dramatist and playwright. He has written, staged and performed two plays Cracked Tiles and Loving the Enemy as well as having co-written the filmed-theatre event A Journey Around My Tenement. Lorenzo plays the part of Joanetti.
Read MoreWithin the next week or two, the audio-play A Journey Around My Room will be publicly available. My first play as an audio-cast has been a fascinating experience. Journey is a story of self-discovery, solidarity and survival in an age of turmoil. During the recording sessions I had the privilege of working with a stellar cast and the atmosphere was always convivial. The spirit of these enjoyable sessions was captured in a series of interviews between cast members David Sillars, Jill Korn, Lorenzo Novani and myself resulting in conversations sharing our experiences of bringing the play to life. These interviews take the form of a chain reaction: an actor interviews a fellow actor and they subsequently become the interviewee for another actor.
The first of these conversations features actor, David Sillars, being interviewed by director Kenny Burnham. David is an artist and actor with fifty years of experience in theatre, TV, film and radio. Nominated for the 2016 Michael Powell Award for the Best Performance in a British Feature, he is joint screen writer of the award winning LGBT feature Seat in Shadow. David plays the part of Xavier De Maistre.
Read MoreI have recently received the final production of A Journey Around My Room…and I am really pleased with it! The actors have done a fantastic job bringing the characters to life and the world in which they live has been beautifully brought to life by sound engineer, Alex Bennett. Interviews between the actors will be published prior to release.
The audio play will be made available on this website very soon. I hope you’ll take the journey!
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