When the Rudder Snaps
“When the Rudder Snaps” (2020) by Jennifer Grey and Directed by Jacqueline Wilde is a work that was created at the beginning of the 2020 lockdown. Kirstin and Jaqueline collaborated on the sound design implementation and worked remotely with highly talented professional actors.
“When the Rudder Snaps” is a fictional story about a politician who finds herself washed up on an unfamiliar shore with no papers and no passport.
The extra challenges of this piece were; how to best utilise limited resources in the recording process; how to obtain the best possible recordings and performances in far from ideal conditions; and how any flawed audio recordings could best be used.
The sound effects, voices and music were created and recorded during the first 2020 lockdown under “Stay at Home” instructions, without access to professional studios or locations.
(Not to be used for any commercial Purposes )
Credits
Produced and presented by Script to Stage Renfrewshire.
CREW
Directed By – Jacqueline Wilde
Written By – Jennifer Grey
Sound Design and Music – Kirstin Mclellan
CAST
Theresa May – Elsa Strachan
First Interrogator and Caseworker – Elizabeth Malnar
Second Interrogator – Matteo Francesconi
Tribunal Judge – Unyimeobong Matthew
Voice over for credits – Glenn (Sim) Curtis