By Cal
Link: https://brightonfestival.org/whats-on/house-mother-normal-online-3112
Available until: 31st May. You’ll be sent a link shortly before 8pm on the day of the booked performance. You’ll have access for 48 hours. Captioned version is available.
It is incredibly brave to produce a play such as this in current times, but it is a decision I completely support and, if anything, the production might be a little overdue.
By Cal
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sqxq
Available until: 4th May 2021
The radio play The Fishermen is based on the play of that name by Gbolahan Obisesan which is based on the book of that name by Chigozie Obioma. The play was staged by New Perspectives Theatre Company and then had a run in London at the Trafalgar Studios. Recently, the cast was reunited and a new production was produced for Radio 3. I understand some changes were made for the radio audience, but these were minimal and I think they were made more to clarify the story rather than to alter it.
By Emma
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
Available until: Unknown
Poison Cross is the last in the Place Prints series and in a way it comes full circle and finishes where it started. The first episode was set in Warwickshire and starred Richard Lynch. The last episode is about a journey towards Warwickshire and one of the actors is Richard Lynch.
By Dave
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
Available until: Unknown
My impression (which could easily be wrong) was that the other pieces in the Place Prints series were written in lockdown, or at least recorded in lockdown. Here We Stay was recorded from a live performance in 2015.
By Sophie
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=87
Available until: Sadly, this is sold out but as the run has proved so popular, perhaps it might be extended. Especially now all the good reviews are coming out.
Love Down the Line is a special Valentine’s Day experience devised by New Perspectives. Everyone who books a play receives a phone call from one of the two actors involved in the project, Sophia Hatfield and Ollie Smith.
By Louise
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
Available until: Unknown
This Place Print is sad in lots of ways, but it is also beautiful and inspiring. It describes a really terrible event which I wouldn’t want to happen to anyone, but it is about sticking to your beliefs and not giving in and I think that can be very admirable. I am glad we now live in a world where so many different beliefs are permitted, though of course we still have a long way to go in some areas.
By Cal
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
Available until: Unknown
If there is another series like Place Prints, I’ve never
watched, heard or read it. Every Place Print not only tells a different story, it
tells its story in a different way. The imagination David Rudkin has put into
these stories has been eye-opening and I’m sure that when we’re allowed to go
out again, I’ll be looking at places in new ways – and of course I’d love to
visit some of the places described in this series.
By Megan
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
(available in English and Welsh)
Available until: Unknown
This Place Print is about a sixteen year old girl called
Mary Jones. For years, she has dreamed of owning her own Welsh Bible. A kind
lady called Mrs Evans has allowed Mary to read her Bible and learn the stories
but Mary really wants one all of her own.
By Emma
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
Available until: Unknown
This is amazing! It’s the story of a walk in Cornwall, following
a path, past trees and bushes. It sounds quite boring when I say it like that
but it isn’t boring at all.
It’s different from the others, it doesn’t have the creepy,
supernatural feel but it’s so powerful. I closed my eyes for this and maybe you
should too. David Rudkin has written this so clearly and so well, it felt like
I could see everything that was described. It was an unbelievable experience,
the voice says what you see and you kind of see it but then you hear more
details and whatever you were imagining kind of twists and changes in your head
till it really looks like what is being described. It’s told in the second
person (which can be really annoying in books but it works with something like
this) so you literally are being told what you can see.
By Sophie
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
Available until: Unknown
This Place Print
is in two parts. Part 1 is called Cave Girl and Part 2 is From the Stone Age. The
stories feature the same characters, but they are separate. Part 1 was reviewed
yesterday.
After her Stone Age experiences in the
last episode, Kerry finds herself once more in a difficult and potentially
supernatural situation. She’s out with Sharon, Gary and Dean again, driving
through the Sussex countryside. It’s a bit too late to get home before dark,
but if they can get home before daylight, that would suit them rather
well.
By Sophie
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
Available until: Unknown
Content warning: This episode contains
some use of strong language.
This Place Print
is in two parts. Part 1 is called Cave Girl and Part 2 is From the Stone Age. The
stories feature the same characters, but they are separate. Part 2 will be
reviewed tomorrow.
The fourth episode in the Place Prints
is about a group of four students. They’re supposed to be filming for their
media studies course and one of them, Kerry, thinks a castle will be the
perfect location.
Her enthusiasm is not matched by her
friends’. Gary and Dean seem more interested in messing around, teasing Kerry
for her interest in the castle. Sharon feels the ground is wholly unsuitable
for her shoes. But the four of them continue… and Kerry is overtaken by a
strange sensation.
By Louise
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
Available until: Unknown
There are a lot of places in the UK
called Grim’s Ditch. There is even one not that far away from where I live,
though I have never been there. At least, I don’t think I have.
This Grim’s Ditch is in North Wessex,
or Berkshire. Grim is another name for Woden, who I know best as Wotan in Der
Ring des Nieblungen by Richard Wagner. The Anglo Saxons believe he was the
one who dug the ditches. Perhaps he was hoping to make a river and attract
English Rhinemaidens.
By Cal
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
Available until: Unknown
Off the Motorway tells the story of an old church. As you
drive past it on the motorway, you might catch a glimpse of it… sometimes.
There are times when it’s invisible.
But the church has a voice; a spirit.
And sometimes, it wants to be seen.
By Dave
Link: https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/?idno=1168&s=82
Available until: Unknown
Place Prints is a series of short
audio dramas written by David Rudkin, focusing on different parts of the
British Isles. It seems to focus on very specific places with a story to tell,
places we probably wouldn’t know about unless we happened to live there.
