Cast

Yvette Somerland….Rosie Allerhand

Mack Holland…. Julian Thomas

Security Guard….Stephanie Richards

Mark Grayson….Stuart Packer

Lottie Saxby-Hydes….Liz Holliss

Seamus Loghlin….Eoin Hegan

Art Protester….Stuart Packer

ArtBeat Podcaster….Stephanie Richards

Production

Writer….Suzy McKeever

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors is a satirical audio drama about the judging of a contemporary arts prize.

The Joshua Prize always delivers controversy, reputations are won and lost, but not usually for the judging panel. Through the eyes of Yvette Somerland, artist and previous year’s winner, we see that ‘The Establishment’ at it’s least venerable and most venal.

The play was inspired by Sophocles Antigone and the theme of judgement:

“Those who have puffed themselves up with great words have been dealt great blows. In old age, they have learned judgement.”

Antigone was famously shut up in a cave, for acting on the values she held dear. Behind Closed Doors is a play on the ways in which women with values that contradict powerful men are ‘shut up’.

Recording

We recorded an excerpt from Behind Closed Doors with support from Bath Spa University. The recording has been made for educational purposes. Enormous thanks go to:

Robin Mukherjee - Course Director, MA Scriptwriting, Bath Spa University

Richard Wood - Studio Manager, Bath Spa University

Hal Smith - Sound Engineer, Bath Spa University

Behind the scenes on Behind Closed Doors

Eoin & Rosie