CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR
THE YOU PLAY VOLUME TWO: THE HAUNTED WOMAN –
PART OF AUDIO PROJECT WRITTEN ON THE WAVES
45North and Ellie Keel Productions today announce Olivia Williams in Rafaella Marcus’ The You Play Volume Two: The Haunted Woman, hersecond play in the audio project Written on the Waves. Directed by Jessica Lazar, itfollows the previous collaboration on Marcus’ debut The You Play: small acts, and will be available from 14 December 2020.
A dictaphone clicks into life. A woman is making a recording for… you. She doesn’t have a lot of time left: something is coming. And it’s coming to get her. So before it arrives, she wants to tell you why. You might be next. So listen carefully and follow her instructions. They might keep you safe. They might save you.
A ghost story about what to do when opportunities die – and something with a long shadow creeps into their place.
The first series of Written on the Waves comprises nine world premières and will continue into 2021 with recognition, based on the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Written by Amanda Wilkin, and co-created and directed by Rachel Nanyonjo. With further plays and casting to be announced.
Also in the series, and currently live are Loss and Hope,a trilogy of short audio pieces including Luke Barnes’ This is a Man starring Liam Jeavons, Tife Kusoro’s The Gift starring Olivia Marcus, and Rafaella Marcus’ We Have Sinned starring Seraphina Beh; Rafaella Marcus’ debut play for audio, The You Play: small acts with Rebecca Banatvala, Jonathan Case, Amber James, Daisy Lewis, Ken Nwosu, Katherine Parkinson and Boadicea Ricketts; Lem ‘N’ Ginge: The Princess of Kakos written and directed by Ell Potter and Mary Higgins and starring Olivier Award-winning Sharon D. Clarke; and A Passion Play by Margaret Perry with Hannah Bristow and Nicola Coughlan.
These can be accessed via www.forty-fivenorth.com/writtenonthewaves
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Rafaella Marcus’ previous work for Written on the Waves include We Have Sinned, and The You Play: small acts.Her credits as director include Stop Kiss (Above the Stag), Bury the Dead (Finborough Theatre), Alley. Pearls. Gunshot. (The Yard Theatre), Spooky Action at a Distance, Crave (Bunker Theatre), and I Have a Mouth and I Will Scream (VAULT Festival – winner of the People’s Choice Award). Her credits as associate director include Emilia (Vaudeville Theatre); and as assistant director, Pericles (Shakespeare’s Globe), Romeo and Juliet, The Wind in the Willows (Chester Performs), Boeing Boeing, Afterplay, Love Your Soldiers, The Winter’s Tale (Sheffield Theatres) and The Killing of Sister George (Arts Theatre).
Olivia Williams’theatre credits include Tartuffe, Mosquitoes, Waste, Happy Now? (National Theatre), Scenes from a Marriage (St James’ Theatre), In a Forest Dark and Deep (Garrick Theatre), The Changeling (Cheek by Jowl), Hotel in Amsterdam (Donmar Warehouse), Peer Gynt, The Wives Excuse, The Broken Heart, Wallenstein, Mischa’s Party (RSC), Richard III (National theatre/US tour). Her television credits include The Nevers, Counterpart, The Halcyon, Manhattan, Case Sensitive, Dollhouse, Ms Austen Regrets and Emma; and for film, Victoria and Abdul, Man Up, Altar, Seventh Son, Maps to the Stars, Sabotage, The Last Days on Mars, Anna Karenina, Hyde Park on Hudson, Now is Good, Wild Bill, Collaborator, Hanna, The Ghost Writer, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, An Education, Broken Lines, Flashback of a Fool, X-Men: The Last Stand, Peter Pan, To Kill a King, Below, The Heart of Me, The Sixth Sense and Rushmore.
Jessica Lazar directs. Credits include Corre (Cervantes Theatre) Anna Bella Eema (Arcola Theatre), This Is A Love Story & Unicorn (North Wall) and Outlying Islands, For Reasons That Remain Unclear, East (King’s Head Theatre).
Written on the Waves Season 1
Available now:
- Loss and Hope
A trilogy of short audio pieces by Luke Barnes, Tife Kusoro and Rafaella Marcus, co-produced with Atticist Productions Ltd.
Directed by Madeleine Kludje, Grace Cordell and Jessica Lazar respectively.
- Lem ‘N’ Ginge: The Princess of Kakos
By Mary Higgins and Ell Potter: a four-part feminist, queer, comedy-quest narrative.
Directed by Mary Higgins and Ell Potter, with sound design, composition and editing by Tom Foskett-Barnes.
- The You Play: small acts
Rafaella Marcus’ debut play for audio, which makes the listener an active participant in their own play.
Directed by Jessica Lazar, with sound design and editing by Dinah Mullen.
- A Passion Play
By Margaret Perry, originally a Paines Plough seed commission and now co-produced with Atticist Productions Ltd, which tells the story of two teenage girls taking part in their local passion play in a small church in Cork.
Directed by Jessica Lazar, with sound design and editing by Annie May Fletcher.
Upcoming:
The You Play Volume Two: The Haunted Woman
By Rafaella Marcus, expanding on the form of The You Play: small acts.
Directed by Jessica Lazar.
- recognition
By Amanda Wilkin, based on the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Co-created and directed by Rachel Nanyonjo.