Speakeasy Sounds

Speakeasy visits the Saturday Night Project

ICT — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:24:44 +0000

On Saturday 23 February, ICT's Speakeasy writers invaded the Saturday Night Project at Islington's Sobell Lesiure Centre, to stage an 'intervention' in the form of a Storytelling Treasure Hunt.

Speakeasy members were stationed around the Sobell, each holding boxes numbered 1-8. Inside the box were mysterious objects, including a bouquet or roses, a skull, and a roller skate. Taken together these objects helped to tell an 8 part story that Speakeasy's writers had created. Teams of SNP participants wandered the building, traveling from box to box and solving rhyming clues in order to complete the story and get to the end of the hunt.

It was quite a sight to see 80 young people running around the Sobell, pens and paper in hand, enthusiastically writing down their answers to the riddles and piecing together the parts of the dramatic narrative. They were all motivated by the exciting prizes: every successful player was rewarded with a doughnut, and one team (picked at random) received a coveted voucher for dinner at Nando's!

A good, story-telling time was had by all; Saturday Night Project's organisers said it was one of the most successful visits ever from an outside organisation coming to their monthly event. Speakeasy is now looking forward to finding new and unconventional ways to stage the excitement of reading and writing in unexpected places around Islington!

Brian Mullin, Speakeasy Director

Messing about on the Monkey Bars

ICT — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:31:25 +0000

We took Speakeasy to see Chris Goode's play Monkey Bars at the Unicorn Theatre. Here's what they had to say...

silence broken

ICT — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:48:54 +0000

Speakeasy Sounds has been a bit quiet for a while. We've busy generating new material for our next performance, a curtain raiser to Minus Me.

We've got a new group since we last made noise here, so we'd thought we'd let you listen in to some of their voices with two new Audioboos, from work which will be developed for the performance next month:

Speakeasy goes quiet...but not for long

ICT — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:44:44 +0000

No audioboo this week, so here's a photo from the last Speakeasy of term. Congratulations to the inaugral members of Speakeasy - huge achievements this year, with many mopre exciting plans in the pipework.

Mostly like blue

ICT — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:09:26 +0000

Each week we look at work by a professional playwright under commission to ICT. Here we get to grips with Inua Ellams' piece Mostly Like Blue.

A little play about...

ICT — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:44:45 +0000

Another chanced to eavesdrop on Speakeasy. Have a listen to these chain plays...

Fresh perspectives

ICT — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:30:46 +0000

We've been looking at point of view in plays. What happens to a story if you change the perspective it's told from?Have a listen to Erykah and Larissa's piece inspired by a newspaper article...

Time to reflect

ICT — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:58:58 +0000

The writers of Wordsearch reflect on the process of writing it, rehearsing it and performing it.

An Audioboo from Wordsearch

ICT — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:25:36 +0000

Next week Speakeasy presents Wordsearch as part of Word2012. Wordsearch is a collection of new plays written by young people inspired by the idea of loss. Here is a sneak preview for your ears only...

The first Speakeasy Audioboo

ICT — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:44:02 +0000

On Friday our Speakeasy members were privileged to be invited to launch Islington's Word2012 festival. Listen to them rehearse -