Lockdown Theatre Festival: Shoe Lady

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By E.V. Crowe. The Royal Court production recorded in lockdown. With Katherine Parkinson.

By E.V. Crowe. The Royal Court production recorded under lockdown. With Katherine Parkinson. Directed by Vicky Featherstone.

By E.V. Crowe.  The Royal Court production had yet to complete its run when the theatres were closed in March 2020. Lockdown Theatre Festival gives it a new lease of life on radio, using technological solutions to record the actors at home. 

Shoe Lady is an examination of the social and domestic pressures placed on women to perform multiple and often contradictory roles in our society. Viv has lost a shoe. They’re her work shoes, her weekend shoes, her only pair of shoes, and she doesn’t know what to do. The curtains are falling, her foot is bleeding, and she’s starting to feel a little overwhelmed. But all will be well in the world once she finds that missing shoe.

Cast:
Viv…Katherine Parkinson
Kenny/ Curtains…Tom Kanji
Elaine/ Curtains…Kayla Meikle
Tree…Archer Brandon

Music by Matthew Herbert
Theatre sound design by Tony Gayle
Directed by Vicky Featherstone
Produced by Jeremy Mortimer and Jack Howson
Sound Editing by Steve Bond and Adam Woodhams
Production Coordinator: Gabriel Francis
Production Manager: Sarah Kenny
Executive Producers: Bertie Carvel and Joby Waldman
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4
 
E.V. Crowe won an Imison Award for Best Radio Drama Script (How to Say Goodbye Properly). Other theatre includes: Brenda (HighTide/Yard); I Can Hear You (RSC); Virgin (Nabokov/Watford Palace); Liar Liar (Unicorn); Young Pretender (nabokov/Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Doris Day, A Just Act (Clean Break/Soho). Dance includes: Live Feed/I’m Going to Show You (Siobhan Davies Dance).

Lockdown Theatre Festival was set up by Bertie Carvel as a positive, creative response to the coronavirus crisis, which has forced theatres all over the world to close, with no knowing when -- or in some cases if -- they will reopen. It captures in audio form some of the stage productions which had their performances unexpectedly cut short. Using innovative techniques, actors record “down the line” from isolation, linked with each other and with the director via video conferencing.

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