Wireless Theatre Ltd Show Notes

It was high time we updated our Wireless Theatre Audio Drama montage, so we’ve put together the following 3.5 minute selection of some of our plays. Thanks to our always brilliant editor Malcolm Thorp!

The productions featured are (in order of appearance)

Hamlet

With beatboxing from Pikey Esquire in 2010 Space Commander.

A bumper trailer for all 3 series of multi-award winning audio series The Springheel Saga.

The Wireless Theatre Company have started their very own theatre talk podcast. Join us for Episode One with hosts Mark Ramsay and Ollie Ford. They talk all things theatre, as well as going behind the scenes at the last ever Fringe Report Awards, meet John Park himself, reviews, gossip and general messing around. With great music from Francesco Quadrarolopolo. Check it out!

We recently recorded 3 Ibsen plays in just 6 days for Audible. A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler starring Laura Carmichael and Enemy of the People starring Owen Teale. Here, on day 3, we speak to director David Beck about the joys, and trials, of this kind of project.

Cherry Cookson is a multi award-winning radio producer and director with over 35 years experience at the BBC. She has worked with the best of British actors, including Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Vanessa Redgrave, producing and directing plays of outstanding quality often under significant time and money constraints. She is known for her high standards and attention to detail, and the ability to work well with a wide range of people. She has produced and directed many outstanding Classic Serials for the BBC by authors such as Charlotte Bronte and Wilkie Collins, and has made bold casting choices often using now famous actors at the start of their careers such as Bill Nighy, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen and Colin Firth. Her original casting of Janet McTeer in the role of Nora in A DOLL’S HOUSE led to the actress’s subsequent career on Broadway in the same role, which led her to Hollywood and Oscar nomination. Recently she has recorded several plays for Wireless Theatre including five multi-cast dramas for Audible, and produced several audiobooks.#audiobooks #radiodrama #radiodramadirector #radiodirector #cherrycookson #bbc #audible

Richard O’Brien was the judge for our live recording of three shortlisted audio plays to open The London Horror Festival, 2012. After judging the plays he treated us all to an impromptu gig of several songs, including The Time Warp and other Rocky Horror Show classics. You can listen to all three plays here: http://www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk/product/stage-fright-2012/

Comedians Mark and Ollie are back again to discuss all things theatre. This episode goes behind the scenes at Wireless Theatre’s 5th Birthday bash (recorded in 2012), talks to Andy McQuaid from Second Skin Theatre, #theatretalk

A montage of our radio dramas

File #1, Look Back, Leap Forward

Narrated by Cameron K. McEwan, investigates the world of Wireless Theatre’s The Springheel Saga.

With exclusive interviews, commentary and clips, this specially extended File #1 not only documents the production of the first series and explores the facts behind the fiction, but also looks at what lies ahead in Series Two…

Narrated by Cameron K. McEwan With contributions from the cast of The Strange Of Springheel’d Jack

Featuring the music of Francesco Quadraroupolo, Production assistant, Emily Best, Credits by James Duckworth,

Edited by Marie Tueje, With thanks to George Maddocks, Produced by Jack Bowman and Robert Valentine for Wireless Theatre

Running Time : 31 Mins

#springheeljack #julianglover #fantasy #sciencefiction