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Stan's Cafe with It's Your Film. Publicity image. Credit: Stan's Cafe.
Broadcast and New Media Drama
Although much of our drama work engages in 'live' interaction via workshops, collaborations or performances, we recognise that such activity is limited to those directly involved or attending each project. In an attempt to engage with greater numbers of people both globally and in the UK, we are also involved in a number of new media and broadcasting initiatives which run along side and complement our live work. This work also takes advantage of the advancement of new media and it's growing importance in all our lives. Our work may therefore involve multi-media productions with sound, visuals and interactive technology, as well as installations or broadcast opportunities.
Stan's Cafe It's Your Film publicity image. Credit: Stan's Cafe, Birmingham.
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What work does the British Council do in this area?
Recent multi-media performances we have worked with include Stan's Cafe, who took their installation and live act, It's Your Film to Estonia in June 2002. It's Your Film is a three minute long mono-performance for the audience of one, watched like a peep show that uses cinematic language mixed with live performance. In October 2002, Theatre Cryptic took Each ... and Every Inch to Montreal, a work which combines music, text, sound and visuals, includes a live cello duet, multi-media visuals and ambient sound installations. Other companies we have worked with include Blast Theory, moti roti and the Builders Association, and the BBC. Read on for a selection of our broadcast and new media drama activites, past, present and future.
BBC/British Council International Radio Playwriting Competition 2005
Follow the ninth biennial International Playwriting Competition in its hunt for the finest writers, new and established, from across the globe.
Moti Roti and The Builders Association with Alladeen in the USA
Alladeen poster image. Courtesy Moti Roti, London.Aladdin's fantasy of personal transformation, played out in the surreal world of Bangalore's 'call centres', explores the paradoxes of identity in an age of multiple realities.
Our Archived Projects
Blast Theory's Desert Rain poster image. Courtesy Blast Theory, London.
Blast Theory with Desert Rain in Australia

...standing on a footplate, zipped into a cubicle in a world of motels, deserts and underground bunkers ... you have 30 minutes to find the target, complete the mission and get the the final room. You may find that others have a very different idea of what actually happened there.

Read on for more about Blast Theory's ground-breaking work.
Blast Theory's Desert Rain poster image. Courtesy Blast Theory, London.
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