Strange stories for stranger times. With the contemporary world being the troubled, complicated, messy place it is – difficult enough for us to wrap our conscious minds around – we want to interrogate the ugly underbelly of what haunts our unconscious minds.
F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for Adults) Series 2 consists of 7 stories from 7 writers, read by leading actors and put out as a podcast and listened to by audiences right before bedtime, all exorcising different and unique horrors from our world and from our lives.
F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for adults) Series 1 features seven short stories written by Alissa Anne Jeun Yi, Dipo Baruwa-Etti, Tim Crouch, Vivienne Franzmann, Matilda Ibini, Amy Jephta and Anthony Neilson. ETT asked these 7 brilliant and provocative writers to tackle the strangeness of our nighttime imaginings and twist the familiar form of bedtime stories into something uncanny, dark and surreal.
F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for adults) is an English Touring Theatre audio-project.
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Strange stories for stranger times. With the contemporary world being the troubled, complicated, messy place it is – difficult enough for us to wrap our conscious minds around – we want to interrogate the ugly underbelly of what haunts our unconscious minds.
F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for Adults) Series 2 consists of 7 stories from 7 writers, read by leading actors and put out as a podcast and listened to by audiences right before bedtime, all exorcising different and unique horrors from our world and from our lives.
F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for adults) Series 1 features seven short stories written by Alissa Anne Jeun Yi, Dipo Baruwa-Etti, Tim Crouch, Vivienne Franzmann, Matilda Ibini, Amy Jephta and Anthony Neilson. ETT asked these 7 brilliant and provocative writers to tackle the strangeness of our nighttime imaginings and twist the familiar form of bedtime stories into something uncanny, dark and surreal.
F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for adults) is an English Touring Theatre audio-project.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"The story begins The Day The World Stood Still. Do you remember that day? The day time stopped"
Maggie is a magpie of a person - she loves pretty her some pretty thangs. She loves admiring pretty thangs, collecting pretty thangs... When lockdown begins, Maggie decides to buy a sewing machine, determined to surround herself with beautiful clothes, made by her very own hand. She and the machine start a perfect relationship together. But pretty soon, the machine begins consuming more than just fabric... A rollercoaster of a piece - fall down the rabbit hole with AJ Yi's darkly comic folk tale for a new age.
Written by AJ Yi
Read by Amber James
Directed by Jennifer Bakst
Sound, Music and Editing by Max Pappenheim
CONTENT WARNING - this audio drama contains references to mental health, descriptions of blood and strong language.
For more information please visit: https://ett.org.uk/watch-and-listen/fked-up-bedtime-stories-for-adults-episode-2-the-machine-by-alissa-anne-jeun-yi/
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