Alisdair Adams – One Act Plays

Join us for a series of different individual audiodrama productions written by Alisdair Adams and recorded by a group of highly talented performers in our home town of Sheffield.

All of them are stories with a modern contemporary outlook, that we hope will warm your heart and make you laugh.

The Call Out

He’d been at “Fast Kill” for six years, and had already learnt so much about pest eradication. Including making plans, setting traps, laying bait and establishing kill zones. So he was confident in quitting to start his own pest control company under the name “Rapid Kill Solutions”.

He soon discovered his first day working for himself would involve a potential cockroach infestation. He thought it would be easy. He was wrong…

Don’t Let Your Mind Wander – Vanishment Podcast

On a mission to the other side of space, Cara communicates back home and hears a voice that is reassuring, familiar and cannot possibly be there.

Soon everything she thinks she knows is in doubt and as Controls scrambles to discover what is happening Cara drifts further from their reach, putting everything in danger.

“Don’t Let You Mind Wander” is the first new episode produced for the ‘Vanishment’ anthology #AudioDrama podcast. Between life and death, there and gone. Mystery & adventure stories about the things that disappear and the dangers of finding them.

The Killer Mine

Jim Price has been blackmailed by a criminal gang and forced to work deep underground, a half mile from shore and protected by only 20 feet of rock that he’ll soon be drilling and blasting. All he can do is pray to God that it doesn’t cave in until he’s long on his way out.

But he’s not alone down here…

‘The Killer Mine’ is based on the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. It was originally adapted into an episode of the 1951 CBS OTR radio series ‘Escape’ (the story from the novel heavily condensed to fit into the 30 minute format). It has been slightly re-written, edited and directed for 2023 by Peter Beeston. It has been remade for this years ‘Sonic Society’ summerstock festival in which modern audio-fiction groups take on the challenge of remaking classic ‘Old Time Radio’ shows.

Short Video Fiction

I often have people send me small bits of flash fiction, short stories and poetry. So I’ve decided to create a new project in which I occasionally take the most interesting work that I’m sent, and bring my own interpretations to these pieces

Each production will be around 1-2 minutes in length and will feature a different voice performer each time. The audio will be mixed with a suitable musical track, and abstract video art will be created in which the spoken text will be overlaid over the visuals.