WOS 2016: Completely See-Through

Racism in the countryside: What's the state of play? Six characters. Six stories. Six voices.

We have joined forces with Eclipse, the leading black-led touring company to produce White Open Spaces: 2016. A series of podcasts about race and racism in the countryside. Originally produced as a reaction to Trevor Phillip’s provocation that there was a ‘passive apartheid’ in the countryside, ten years on this podcast series retells three of the original stories and offers three new perspectives on the state of society today. Post-Brexit and Pre-Trump what is our national identity? What does it mean to belong to a place if that place might not want you to belong to it?

Written by six world-class writers including Lorna French, Leah Chillery, Courttia Newland and Testament, as part of Eclipse’s Revolution Mix initiative and performed by a star cast. Sharp, funny and provocative, these six voices tell us the state of the nation today.

"Everyone just turned round and stared like I was from Mars or something... Just looking at these trees, the birds in the sky… It’s as if I can take off my armour"

Written by Francesca Beard Performed by Jade Anouka Directed by Elizabeth Freestone Recorded at Pure Soho Studios, London