Audio Journeys
Listen to The Uncommercial Traveller journeys through cities across the world...
Join in the British Council’s Dickens 2012 celebrations! Are you in Melbourne, Karachi, London, Penang or Singapore? Here you can download a uniquely creative audio guided tour of your city, made by local artists and communities with UK directors Owen Calvert-Lyons for Arcola Theatre and Peter Higgin for Punchdrunk.
If you’re in another location or short of time, just listen to the audio from wherever you are to experience this inspirational collection of stories and memories of global cities.
NEW: The Uncommercial Traveller: Penang - launched mid-April 2012
Download from Soundcloud - in English (4 audio files)
The Uncommercial Traveller: Melbourne – launched 21 February 2012
Prominent emerging playwrights collaborated with experienced writers to create an immersive journey through Melbourne for Australia’s National Play Festival.
Download from Soundcloud (5 audio files)
The Uncommercial Traveller: Karachi – launched 10 February 2012
Past and present students of the city’s National Academy of Performing Arts [http://www.napa.org.pk/] invited audiences on a mysterious journey exploring the beautiful building in which they studied.
‘Atmospheric and touching… An elegiac lament for Pakistan’s many histories’ The Times.
Download from Soundcloud – in English (4 audio files)
Download from Soundcloud – in Urdu (4 audio files)
The Uncommercial Traveller: London – launched 25 June 2011
Performers over the age of sixty in Dalston, London created an audio guide leading from Hackney Town Hall to an immersive performance in a disused shop.
‘A patchwork of 19th-century London life, conjuring a complete world’ The Guardian.
*Link to come soon
COMING SOON:
The Uncommercial Traveller: Singapore – launches April 2012
The Uncommercial Traveller is based on an original project by Punchdrunk Enrichment and Arcola Theatre that took place in London 2011. The British Council, as part of its Dickens 2012 celebrations [link], has worked with Punchdrunk and Arcola to develop the idea as a series of international audio journeys.
