Mum Can You Hear Me?
Run Date: 01/02/21 - 22/02/21.
Venue: Online, in association with Living Records Festival.
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Description: Mum Can You Hear Me? Was a four-act audio drama, inspired by the Essex lorry deaths of 2019. The piece itself invited the audience into the subconscious mind of a young dying woman as she struggles to say goodbye to a world and person she can no longer see.
People Involved
Alex Douglas - The Main Voice.
Alecia Maddox - Mother.
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Bernadett Szabo - Writer.
Adam Cachia - Director.
Áron Gyenge - Sound Designer and Composer.
The Living Records Festival.
Created by the Living Records Theatre Company, 2021 was their first festival – and it happened entirely digitally!
Each festival participant had access to create their own microsite which served as a performance venue for their piece. Once a ticket was purchased a household could gain access to this page and watch the show.
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More information about the festival and the Living Records Theatre Company can be found here.
"The power of this piece is undeniable, and it’s this that ultimately justifies it."
★★★★
"This empathetic drama uses the unfolding journey to explore the physical experience as their bodies and minds are lost to the unbearable conditions."
★★★★
"With the help of a soundscape that effectively surrounds you, making the audience feel as though they are living the experience."
★★★
"At thirty-eight minutes, it is, in essence, a long goodbye, and ultimately a harrowing one. A thoughtful and reflective play.."
★★★
"Mum, Can You Hear Me highlights the cost to families of such catastrophes: where desperation for a better life puts both young and old in danger. We hear, in the preamble, of final, desperate phone calls, of lack of breath, of plain fear."
- Louise Penn.
"There is no attempt at documentary — this is an imaginative evocation of the irrepressible human spirit in the teeth of despair and desperation. Superb."
- Aleks Sierz.