For my tenth and final visit to the Living Record Festival I tried This Noisy Isle. This online Festival is a wide-ranging mix of content and the website would benefit from a clear classification of what the target audience is for each one, comedy, audio, children, drama etc. The selection I have tried ranged from the bizarre lectures, improv to some very interesting short films. Many of them had the feel of work in progress, content being workshopped or tried out as part of their development. Overall, it has been a satisfying and enjoyable interaction with the Festival. This final piece is an audio only story split into a Prologue and 10 short audio stories. It is not clear what order to listen to them, so we tried them in the order they are on the weblink. The link to the interactive activity pack on the Festival site did not work but we found the three downloadable pages on the producers own site at Spun Glass Theatre.
The story takes its inspiration from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and is set on the tropical island where Prospero was shipwrecked twelve years earlier with his daughter Miranda. The island had been inhabited by the witch Sycrorax who has died but her son Caliban still wanders the island with the spirit Ariel who has also been imprisoned there. The target audience is 7- to 11-year-olds and the production has the feel of a modern Listen with Mother which ran on BBC radio from 1950 to 1982 and which I regularly listed to at that age!
