Case ########-38

Navigating the descent, recorded in Situ.

Content warnings:

• Heights / Vertigo (inc SFX)
• Falling
• Panic (inc breathing SFX)
• Injury / Pain (inc SFX)
• Explicit language
• Discussions of: emotional manipulation
• Mentions of: arguments, death, self-hatred, lack of self-preservation, paranoia, pleading, kidnapping, alcohol
• SFX: wind, creaking metal, screaming & suffering

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Edited this week by Annie Fitch, Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead, Jeffrey Nils Gardner & Alexander J Newall

Written by Jonathan Sims and directed by Alexander J Newall

Sensitivity consultation by Alexander Linde Nielsen

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

Performances:

- "The Archivist" - Jonathan Sims

- "Martin Blackwood" - Alexander J Newall

- "Basira Hussain" - Frank Voss

- "Melanie King" - Lydia Nicholas

- "Georgie Barker" - Sasha Sienna

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