Mum, Can You Hear Me?

Run Date: 01/02/21 - 22/02/21.

Venue: Online, in association with Living Record Festival.

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.

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Reviews

"The power of this piece is undeniable, and it’s this that ultimately justifies it."
★★★★

Everything Theatre

"This empathetic drama uses the unfolding journey to explore the physical experience as their bodies and minds are lost to the unbearable conditions."
★★★★

The Reviews Hub

"With the help of a soundscape that effectively surrounds you, making the audience feel as though they are living the experience."
★★★

Love London Love Culture

"At thirty-eight minutes, it is, in essence, a long goodbye, and ultimately a harrowing one. A thoughtful and reflective play.."

★★★

London Theatre 1

"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

The Living Record 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.

More information about the festival and the Living Records Theatre Company can be found here

People Involved

Cast:

Alex Douglas as The Main Voice

Alecia Maddox as Mother

Creative Team Members:

Writer - Bernadett Szabo

Director - Adam Cachia

Sound Designer and Composer - Áron Gyenge

The Dreams

Inspired by the work of both Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange, our version of The Dreams incorporated a redesigned soundscape and a newly written text to create an immersive audio experience in which the listener truly imagines what it means to be conscious whilst dreaming.

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