Audio Debates

Although we thrive on live, interactive performances with our audience that doesn’t mean we cannot use other formats to help a message reach its audience. We can record performances and debates to be replayed across the country, offering a huge potential for a project to be expanded if it needs to be.

Of course, these performances are written specifically for the audio platform, with the aim of teasing topics of conversation, thoughts, feelings and views from the listener. They can be broadcast from a radio station, sent out in CD format to listen to at the person’s leisure or even distributed as MP3 files to be uploaded on intranets or sent out to colleagues.

At Dead Earnest we have embarked upon a number of audio projects in the past, including a piece called ‘Streets Together, Streets Apart’ that was produced in partnership with the Pendle Borough Council to debate issues of diversity in local communities. We also wrote and performed ‘The View’; a piece created in partnership with Eventus, the Arts Council and Sheffield City Council that was broadcast live across South Yorkshire on BBC Radio Sheffield. The play was based around the regeneration projects going on in Sheffield’s Parson Cross area with four characters (three residents and one newcomer) and provoked reaction and comment from listeners via phone, text and e-mail.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2008/06/16/parson_cross_regeneration_play_feature.shtml