Hello Operator
Part spectacle, part radio drama
Scriptwriter: Jacqueline Harris
Director: Natalie Bowers
Sound Engineer: Liam Carroll
Filmaker: Lawrence Campbell
Foley Artist: Kyle McKenzie
Voice Actor: Sally Ann Staunton
Prop Maker: Grace Herron
“Hello Operator” was a commissioned piece that involved spending three fabulous days on the streets and in the parks of Barrow-in-Furness collecting ghost stories and then using them to create and write two scripts for a brilliantly innovative site specific arts project.
People shared tales about the Covered Market and Furness Abbey among others; of ghostly whistling caretakers, inventive poltergeists, monks lost in time and many more.
“This site-specific phone is on a mission;
To make new stories from the people and places rooted at the heart of our rural communities.
We take your tales and put them through the studio process using live theatre and foley art to deliver exciting radio drama performances to local audiences.” - Natalie Bowers