Kate Valentine of Digital Drama has won the Best Multi-Media Producer at the Audio Production Awards 2016. The judges were particularly impressed by our recent audio-visual installation Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut at the London School of Hygiene & Tropic
al Medicine.
Kate is delighted to have won the award for Digital Drama and we thank all our project partners and contributors this year who have enabled us to win this great award.
If you haven’t managed to see Digital Drama’s audio visual installation Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut, it is part of the Open House Weekend on the 17th and 18th of September and then open daily until the 23rd September at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Visit the Open House website to find out more details.
Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut is a Heritage Lottery funded project created by Digital Drama and focused around a public installation commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opening of the YMCA Shakespeare Hut, which was on the grounds of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in Keppel Street, WC1.
YMCA Huts were a regular sight in England, France and on all the fighting fronts during the First World War, providing a ‘home from home’ for soldiers to rest, recover and be entertained. However, the Keppel Street hut was built with a special purpose – to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and to entertain the troops through the playwright’s work, keeping them away from the dangerous London streets.
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 are honoured to be partnering the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Mustard Club in presenting ‘Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut’ – an installation and dramatic reconstruction in the summer of 2016 to co-inside with Shakespeare 400 and the First World War Centenary.
Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut commemorates the 100th anniversary of the opening of the YMCA Shakespeare Hut on the grounds of the current London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. As part of the YMCA’s many huts built for the rest and recreation of serving forces during the First World War, Shakespeare Hut was built to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the playwright’s death, with a particular remit to bring Shakespeare to the troops. The project will collect, record and present the heritage of this forgotten building as well as gathering local family stories of the First World War to preserve and share them with the wider community.
For more information, to share WW1 family memories from the London Borough of Camden and for opportunities to volunteer, please contact Alison Ramsey at alison@digitaldrama.org
Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut is being made possible by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Image from the YMCA archives.
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: