SONIC THEATRE PODCAST
All You Need Is To Listen.
Soundworlds is not just a podcast. It’s an audio stage for diverse stories told in extraordinary ways. It’s a place for an exciting new form of audio drama that we call sonic theatre.
Created by musicians, writers, theatre-makers and sound artists, sonic theatre pieces are more than radio plays. They’re immersive sound worlds, intoxicating blends of music and storytelling, sound design, documentary and fiction.
Accolades for Soundworlds Season 2:
Best Fiction Podcast (Winner, British Podcast Awards)
Creativity Award (Runner Up, British Podcast Awards)
Best Use of Sound (Winner, BBC Audio Drama Awards)
Best Podcast Drama (Finalist, BBC Audio Drama Awards)
Creative Innovation Award (Runner Up, ARIAS)
Best Scripted Fiction Podcast Episode (Finalist, Webbys)
Our second season ran from November 2021 to April 2022, and featured eight episodes that can be streamed online here or downloaded via any podcasting app. Season 3 begins production soon...
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Soundworlds is directed by Pat Eakin Young
Produced by Eleanor Turney & George Warren
Season 2 artwork by Sydney Smith
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ARE YOU READY, BITCH?
Travis Alabanza / Mwen
A new sonic theatre commission about the power of being outside together
“This is how we walk.
We bringing carnival to these streets”
For our season finale, we’ve commissioned an original sonic theatre piece from writer, performer and theatre-maker Travis Alabanza — author of Burgerz, Overflow, and the forthcoming None of the Above.
Four of the trans gurls prepare to leave the house: a seemingly mundane act that sparks a riotous collective fantasy and ultimately transforms the grey and hostile London streets into a pulsing stage for queer spectacle. With a winning mixture of poetics, playfulness and shade, the quartet play their own Greek chorus, lending epic grandeur to their everyday odyssey through the neighbourhood, while London-based DJ, producer and composer Mwen provides the original club-ready score, rendering each hysterical vignette in bold music-video colouration.
Strutting a fine line between utopian reverie and revenge fantasy, Are You Ready, Bitch? offers a glorious ode to queer visibility and trans sisterhood, as well as the ambiguous power of appearing extraordinary in an aggressively ordinary world.
We bringing carnival to these streets”
For our season finale, we’ve commissioned an original sonic theatre piece from writer, performer and theatre-maker Travis Alabanza — author of Burgerz, Overflow, and the forthcoming None of the Above.
Four of the trans gurls prepare to leave the house: a seemingly mundane act that sparks a riotous collective fantasy and ultimately transforms the grey and hostile London streets into a pulsing stage for queer spectacle. With a winning mixture of poetics, playfulness and shade, the quartet play their own Greek chorus, lending epic grandeur to their everyday odyssey through the neighbourhood, while London-based DJ, producer and composer Mwen provides the original club-ready score, rendering each hysterical vignette in bold music-video colouration.
Strutting a fine line between utopian reverie and revenge fantasy, Are You Ready, Bitch? offers a glorious ode to queer visibility and trans sisterhood, as well as the ambiguous power of appearing extraordinary in an aggressively ordinary world.
Written by
Travis Alabanza
Music by
Mwen
Performed by
Chloe Filani
Afi
Alexis Meshida
Ebun Sodipo
Directed by
Pat Eakin Young
Sound design and mixing:
Ross Flight
Travis Alabanza
Music by
Mwen
Performed by
Chloe Filani
Afi
Alexis Meshida
Ebun Sodipo
Directed by
Pat Eakin Young
Sound design and mixing:
Ross Flight
