War of the Worlds – Web Advert 1

We’re smack bang in the middle of ‘War of the Worlds‘, this past week we’ve been in the studio recording Devious Theatre’s first venture into radio-theatre.

As an actor, it’s an entirely different experience standing in the sound booth delivering lines into a microphone but one I’ve really enjoyed. It has also been one of the first times I’ve worked with Devious in a director capacity, with myself, John, Kevin and Ken sharing the role. It’s once again great to be working with Sound Engineer/Producer Alan Dawson and we’ve got plenty of projects planned together for the coming months. Most of the recording process is now finished, there’s still one or two scenes to be recorded.

Aside from the recording, there already seems to be a huge buzz about the show. I’m constantly being approached by people who are really excited and looking forward to our “re-envisioning” of the sci-fi classic which will be based in Kilkenny/Carlow. In true Devious Theatre fashion we’re now beginning our bombardment of local media, press releases are being sent out, radio interviews and I’ll have a whole bunch of behind-the-scenes photos going online soon.

In recent weeks I’ve been learning a lot about working with textures and photo manipulation so I decided to use these newly acquired skills to produce a promotional poster for the show; in the style of the front page of a newspaper released during the Martian invasion of Kilkenny. I’m still getting my head around this kind of work, it’s certainly not easy, but I’m quite happy with my first attempts.

In the run up to 30.10.08 we’re also releasing a series of adverts for the show, the ads will be running on KCLR96fm and we’ve got web-adverts; these adverts will be available for download through DeviousTheatre.com. We’re urging any bloggers or podcasters out there to please spread the word… “the sky is falling!”.