Guest Productions: Recent Episodes
Wireless Theatre Company
In your benevolence, hear the Lover’s plea to understand Porphyra.Starring Harry Myers as Tullup, the Lover (he/him)With additional voices from the season 1 cast
In your benevolence, hear the Artist's plea for a dream come true.Starring David Holt as Michel Kildress, the Artist (they/them)
Love for Menabilly is an original audio play written by Jo-Ann Challis, exploring the obsessive relationship Daphne Du Maurier had with Menabilly, the house she loved.
Menabilly is a house with a past, but seemingly no future. Hidden away from prying eyes on a Cornish peninsula, Mena's been abandoned by its owners and left to rot. It's hurting and lonely, and embarrassed by its shabby appearance.
But everything changes when a young Daphne du Maurier seeks out Menabilly and is instantly entranced ...
Daphne du Maurier invested money and love in Menabilly – an illustrious Cornish house she could rent but never own. This play explores a possible explanation for Daphne’s obsessive devotion to Menabilly: that a house has its own emotions and desires that bond with and influence those of its human occupant.
The play is set in the 1960s, but the action flashes back to key scenes in Daphne’s relationship with Menabilly and with her husband, Tommy.
Love for Menabilly by Jo-Ann Challis
Daphne ….. Julia Savill
Menabilly ….. Jane McKell
Tommy ….. Russell Biles
Tessa ….. Ellie Brooks
Tommy’s mistress ….. Tanya Alexander
Lord Evans ….. Lee Tilson
Other parts played by members of the cast
Written and produced by Jo-Ann Challis
Sound design and mix by Steve Rafter at BOMO Audio
Recorded at Bournemouth University, March 2022
The Unravelling Fantasia of Miss H is a fusion of theatre, opera and in the stage performance, dance, telling the story of music mistress Mary, incarcerated in an asylum for 41 years. Samplers stitched by Mary Frances Heaton, on display in the Wakefield Mental Health Museum, inspired writer and composer Red Gray to tell her powerful and tragic tale.
The Unravelling Fantasia of Miss H
The performance features a cycle of songs especially composed and performed by Red Gray and Sarah Nicolls of Stitched-up Theatre on the extraordinary `Inside-out Piano'. The piece is directed by Zoe Bouras with choreography by Kate Webster who also performs and features lighting design by Kristina Hjelm and costume design by Rosie Whiting.
The Coast of Coromandel. Edward Lear has somehow become separated from his creations. They have no option but to set off in search of him. An excursion, with songs. Recorded and produced by final year students at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Performed by Final Year actors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (2016)
The Coast of Coromandel Written by Lavinia Murray
CAST:
Edward LearGeorge CapleParrotEvlyne OyedokunQuangle Wangle, Parrot 2David JonssonJumbly GirlEmma DenlyBoyIssy Brazier-JonesUmbrella MakerJack RiddifordTrout Boy, DongJordon StevensDemonLaurence StaggOwlLuke BradySnakeMaisie RobinsonLady Jingly JonesNatasha CowleyFoss the CatPhilippa QuinnNelson, BoThomas Martin
Music by the company. Musical director Jack Riddiford, Sound design by Candice Weaver, Mixed by Craig Dormer, Directed by Jeremy Mortimer
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