Urban Scrawl: 53 Podcast Dramas About London
Urban Scrawl is an unprecedented drama experiment that changes the landscape of online creative endeavours and forges new opportunities for playwrights in cyberspace. New for 2009, week-by-week over the coming year, Urban Scrawl gives listeners a unique and unforgettable account of London life.
Urban Scrawl is a series of 53 short dramas (50 plays and three musicals) conceived specifically for free online download and podcast. In total 53 writers, some established, others up-and-coming, have been invited to contribute a new play.
Each play has been inspired by a different stop on the Piccadilly Line, one of the most travelled and historically venerated of London’s Underground lines.
From Heathrow in the west up to Cockfosters in the north east, cutting through the heart of the West End, the Piccadilly Line is an axis along which millions of lives are played out.
These 53 podcast dramas will create a dynamic and diverse picture of the UK’s capital, as all eyes turn upon it in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics.
Mark Ravenhill is the patron of Urban Scrawl and will contribute a drama of his own to the project. Urban Scrawl includes plays from writers including: Simon Stephens, Samuel Adamson, Alexis Zegerman, Bola Agbaje, Sarah Beck, Ali Taylor, Daryl Bennett, Laura Wade, Jane Bodie, Louise Gooding, Chips Hardy, Dawn King, Dominic Mitchell, Gillian Plowman, Phil Porter and Sarah Sigal.
A collaboration between new writing powerhouse Theatre503, the leading audio discussion website Theatrevoice and Rose Bruford College, the prestigious college of theatre performance and production, Urban Scrawl’s artistic director is Gene David Kirk, whom you can listen to online at www.theatrevoice.com.
Kirk says of the project:
This is an invaluable collaboration which brings together some of the finest playwrights in the UK, alongside some of the newest voices around and documents the energy and diversity of our capital city. Though it sounds like the most unfeasibly ambitious project, its success demonstrates the passion that runs through the theatre-making community and their love for new writing and London.
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