playwright / director
CURRENT WORK: IN EARLY STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
ROCK, SCREE, DROWNT: a fusion of the enormity of the voices of nature with the intimacy of radio drama.
Marcail sees the Half-Way Rock as nothing more than a resting place on the Aberdeenshire coast until the sounds of the waves, wind and rain one day appear to her as voices, calls for help, final words long lost among the depths.
But why her; why now?
An answer comes only when she finds herself precariously perched thousands of feet above an abyss on the Half-Way Rock's mirror-image on the other side of the North Sea: the Kjeragbolten.
This time, the phantom words come from the Draugr - spirits of those lost at sea, human forms with heads of seaweed, and suddenly the voices make sense.
A radiophonic deep dive into a previously unheard world written and directed by Neil Cargill in collaboration with sound artist Tyler Lewis which intertwines voices, sounds and music to create a mesmerising narrative.
peter capaldi gina mckee dennis hopper harry dean stanton james cosmo ricky tomlinson
Selected by Wim Wenders for permanent
inclusion in the Wim Wenders Foundation Archive in Dusseldorf.
featuring ian mcdiarmid
Recent work as writer/director includes the pioneering online audio drama series described as "a sonic inferno" - Akiha Den Den - a multi-layered story fusing the unique intimacy of radio with the immersive power of Simon James's sound design and music.
BBC Radio 3
KING CUTLER
A STUGGY PREN
WET HANDLE
JELLY MOUNTAIN
saskia reeves michael kitchen music by john harle
Available in digital or CD versions
via Sospiro Records.