'Black Water: An American Story'
Nominated for BBC Audio Drama Awards 2020.
Sarah's adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel, produced by Gaynor Macfarlane, has been shortlisted in three categories for the BBC Audio Drama awards:
Full details here
Sarah Wooley's adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's novella Black Water was a richly atmospheric throwback to an era when intelligent young women were expected to simper and pout in the presence of powerful men. Loosely based on the Chappaquiddick incident of 1969 - when a car driven by Edward Kennedy crashed into a lagoon in Massachusetts, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne - the drama slipped back and forth between scenes of a cocktail party seduction and the dying thoughts of the victim trapped underwater. A senseless tragedy dissected with icy restraint. Clive Davies - The Times.
Nominated for BBC Audio Drama Awards 2020.
Sarah's adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel, produced by Gaynor Macfarlane, has been shortlisted in three categories for the BBC Audio Drama awards:
- Best Adaptation
- Best Actress (Lydia Wilson)
- Best use of sound (sound by Gary Newman and Mike Etherden)
Full details here
Sarah Wooley's adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's novella Black Water was a richly atmospheric throwback to an era when intelligent young women were expected to simper and pout in the presence of powerful men. Loosely based on the Chappaquiddick incident of 1969 - when a car driven by Edward Kennedy crashed into a lagoon in Massachusetts, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne - the drama slipped back and forth between scenes of a cocktail party seduction and the dying thoughts of the victim trapped underwater. A senseless tragedy dissected with icy restraint. Clive Davies - The Times.
The National
Sarah's new three-part play will be broadcast on Tues 19th, Weds 20th and Thurs 21st of November 2019 at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 4.
Details and iPlayer link here
Politics and theatre do battle as the National's first Artistic Director, Sir Laurence Olivier, and his lieutenant Kenneth Tynan fight to establish a successful National Theatre.
Clive Davies’s Radio Choice of the week in The Times.
Charlotte Runcie’s Radio choice of the day in The Daily Telegraph
Joe Clay‘s Radio pick of the day in The Times.
Radio pick of the day in The Independent.
Radio pick of the day in The Daily Mail ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
With all the intensity of life back-stage, the theatre world itself can make for good drama, and writer Sarah Wooley has created one here, bringing to life the personalities and the power struggles that attended the opening of the National Theatre in 1963. No relationship was more key to the project’s success that that between founding artistic director Laurence Olivier (a suitably testy Robert Glenister) and his dramaturg Kenneth Tynan, (played by John Heffenan), and it’s captured in all its tension. Radio Times
Sarah's new three-part play will be broadcast on Tues 19th, Weds 20th and Thurs 21st of November 2019 at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 4.
Details and iPlayer link here
Politics and theatre do battle as the National's first Artistic Director, Sir Laurence Olivier, and his lieutenant Kenneth Tynan fight to establish a successful National Theatre.
Clive Davies’s Radio Choice of the week in The Times.
Charlotte Runcie’s Radio choice of the day in The Daily Telegraph
Joe Clay‘s Radio pick of the day in The Times.
Radio pick of the day in The Independent.
Radio pick of the day in The Daily Mail ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
With all the intensity of life back-stage, the theatre world itself can make for good drama, and writer Sarah Wooley has created one here, bringing to life the personalities and the power struggles that attended the opening of the National Theatre in 1963. No relationship was more key to the project’s success that that between founding artistic director Laurence Olivier (a suitably testy Robert Glenister) and his dramaturg Kenneth Tynan, (played by John Heffenan), and it’s captured in all its tension. Radio Times