#audio projects

Unicorn Theatre has revealed a new online production of Grimm's Tales, similar in form to the recent production of The Twits.

Each of the tales will be directed by a different artist, with individual actors taking on individual passages from Philip Pullman's version of the classic pieces.

The series will be filmed on the Unicorn Theatre's stage, with special graphics and effects added. On the creative team are designer Charlotte Espiner, composer and sound designer Jon McLeod, director of photography Phil Cooper and editors Todd MacDonald and Joe Young.

The show is streaming from 5 October to 21 February 2021 on the Unicorn's YouTube channel.

Appearing in the productions will be:

Justin Audibert directs Nadia Albina reading Hansel and Gretel

Rachel Bagshaw with Le Gateau Chocolat reading Rumpelstiltskin

Polly Findlay directs Colin Morgan reading The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs

Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu directs Andy Umerah reading The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

Ola Ince directs Susan Wokoma reading The Brave Little Tailor

ColinMorgan & Ronald Pickup record a scene for #THEWAROFTHEWORLDS.

#Orators of the #ModernAge – An Insight into #AudioBook #Narrators and #VoiceOverArtists

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Audio books.  We love them or we hate them, there’s usually not a lot of middle ground, but regardless of our love-hate relationship, the completion of an audio book project is a journey not many have taken.  Fewer yet are the interviews with audio book narrators.  We know little to nothing about these orators of the modern age who fill our lives with complex stories, tales of woe and strife,…