We are delighted to announce that Digital Drama’s audio production of Peace in Our Time has been selected for the HEAR Now Festival 2016 in Kansas City, USA.
Click here to listen to Digital Drama’s Peace in Our Time by Noel Coward.
Digital Drama was commissioned by Watermans, Brentford, to make a film about Short Breaks programme which offers activities throughout the year for disabled young people living in Hounslow.
Filmed over 6 months in 2015/6 A Short Break at Watermans explores the positive effects that an arts programme has had on the 877 Short Breaks families living in Hounslow borough.
Credits for Digital Drama:
Camera, sound and editing: Julian Langham
Producers: Alison Ramsey and Kate Valentine
Production Assistant: Sid Brunskill
Short version of the film:
Digital Drama are delighted that our eight part audio production of Noel Coward’s Peace in Our Time is now available to purchase as a download and special edition CD from our online shop www.digitaldrama.org/shop.
Coward imagines life in a London pub during World War Two and the play’s themes of freedom, resistance and surveillance will resonate with the listener in 2016.
The cast includes; Dorothy Atkinson, BAFTA nominee in 2014 for her role as long suffering housekeeper in Mike Leigh’s acclaimed film Mr Turner, Linda Marlowe, best known for her 25 year span of work as Steven Berkoff’s leading lady and latterly on television in her role as Sylvie Carter in EastEnders and fellow EastEnder and Granchester actor Michael Simkins fresh from the recent UK tour of Noël Coward’s Hay Fever.
Peace in Our Time Episode 1 Preview Mix:
Production: Directed by Kate Valentine, Produced by Alison Ramsey, Adaption by Martyn Wade, Sound Design by David Chilton from Essential Studios.
To order your special edition CD or to download Peace in Our Time go to www.digitaldrama.org/shop
Thank you to all our supporters on Kickstarter
Caroline Valentine, Ben Hornsey, Joe W B Paxton, Molly Sweeny, Simon White, Daniel Wade, Sean Patterson, Susie Labinjoh, Emma Richards, Cat Horn, Janet Harris, Katie Barton, Ella Kennedy, Terri Brumby, Radha Dudhia, Jason DaPonte, Sophie Oxenham, Chris, Clare Matassa, Mia Bennett, Farne Sinclair, Cindy Womack, Beverley Sills, Alice Whieldon, Emily Rawson, Cheryl Wood, Jenny French, T Wilson, Andrew Merry, Mustard Club Adrian McLoughlin, Michael Simkins, Wendy Smithers, Jason Golder, Tanya Hughes, Jess Salmon, Jessica Dromgoole, Bernard Adams, Rae Cotter, Joe Gale, Peter Soer, Jacky Jackson-Cox, Carol Long, David Slattery-Christy, Graham & Carmel Botwright, Emma Morris, Wendy Appleby, Rachel Coughlan, John Deeley-Harkett, Graham Stimpson, Magnus Wood, Lynne Jones, Christine Golder, Michael Davison, Doug, Trevor Fairhurst, Dot, Susan Witterick, Mcternans, Pamela, Will Bowen, Emma J Medd, Peter Stevens, Jonathan Prynn, Liz Smith, Rod & Christina Parker, Pippa Sterne, Derek, Annabel McCall, Gillian Roberts, C Sinclair, Heather Hughes, P Hill, Sarah Cable, Malcolm Valentine, Alex Batchelor, Imogen Christie, John Kearon, Horace McDonald, Peter Osborne, Gareth Williams, Warren Carter, David Howell, Jenny Barraclough, Claire Lloyd, Emma, Jilly Bond, Linda Marlowe.
Digital Drama have had a great week working with 19 actors on location at Gerry’s Club, Soho, recording Noel Coward’s play Peace in Our Time. We are producing the play as an eight part audio drama that will be available to download and buy as a CD from November 2015.
If you would like further details of how to download the audio or pre-order a CD, please contact us here
Digital Drama’s Kickstarter campaign to produce Noel Coward’s little performed play ‘Peace in Our Time’ as an eight part audio serial is gathering pace. Commissioned by the Arts Council England to explore crowdfunding as a credible way of producing quality audio drama, the campaign is drawing support from theatre lovers across the world. To support the production, please go to www.kck.st/1Tzv5FC
Set in World War II, the action takes place in a London pub, The Shy Gazelle, which Coward based on his own local, The Antelope, just off Sloane Square.
Coward wrote the play after the war ended, imagining what life in London would have been like if The Battle of Britain had been lost in 1940. It is particularly relevant to produce this play now as we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the conflict.
We are delighted to announce that Dorothy Atkinson will be playing publican Dorris Shattock. Last seen in Mike Leigh‘s award winning film Mr Turner, Dorothy was BAFTAnominated in 2014 for her role as Turner’s long suffering house keeper and has recently starred in Call The Midwife.
Steven Berkoff’s leading actress and EastEnders Star, Linda Marlowe has just joined the cast of Peace In Our Time.
Please support the production via the Kickstarter campaign by going to www.kck.st/1Tzv5FC.