Hello? Are you squished? Have I squelched you?
Starring Sophie Thompson, Stuff is a 5 minute witty and surreal play that tells the story of how two neighbours meet for the first time, when a bath full of daily mail newspapers falls through the floor into the flat below.
A conversation ensues as the woman in the top flat hangs upside down in the hole the bath has left. Why is the bath full of tabloids and celebrity magazines? Where are all of the downstairs neighbour’s belongings?
Actress Sophie Thompson (Feel Good, Present Laughter (Old Vic), Four Weddings and a Funeral), brings her distinctive voice to the short but imaginative piece.
Written by Alison Carr, directed by Max Elton with sound by Piers Sherwood-Roberts, Stuff, asks us do we really know what goes on in our neighbours homes? It was released across all podcasting platforms on Monday 4th May 2020 (estimated length: 5 minutes).
You can listen to it here.
iOS https://apple.co/2z7V5Iy Android https://bit.ly/2WjHnu8 Direct link https://buzzsprout.com/991894
Bitter Pill are trying to produce new writing until theatres in the UK reopen. Through The PainkillerProject, they are open for submissions once a fortnight and are producing the winning play each fortnight as a podcast available as The Painkiller Podcast on all podcast platforms.
They plan to stage highlights from the project in front of an audience at a point after this becomes a possibility.
www.bitterpilltheatre.com The Painkiller Project, a fortnightly new writing project, has been running since 20 April.
If you can afford to donate, or if you know anyone who might want to donate to the continuation of the project it would mean the world to us! The two ways of donating are: You can become a patron to the project through Patreon.
This allows you to make a donation that would be repeated each time a new winning play is released, fortnightly.
https://www.patreon.com/bitterpilltheatre?fan_landing=true
If you would prefer, you can make a one-off donation through PayPal.me – paypal.me/bitterpilltheatre
