Abilities

A television talk show for a live studio audience and streamed online.

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Tethervision invited Internet to do a performance at one of a series of events for a small audience and to be streamed live online. We decided to work with the format of a talk show, as talk shows generally have both studio and home audiences. We scripted the show, creating three guest characters, and the host was played by various volunteers from the audience. There was a ringing intercom on stage and whichever audience member answered it, became the first host. Each volunteer host was directed via the intercom system to read their lines from a teleprompter and cue cards. The subject of the show is people with special abilities.

Written and directed by Siân Robinson Davies and Diego Chamy.
With Emma Leach as Emma Leach, Ann Ward as Sue Rigley, Shelley Draper as Lynn Sutcliff and Niki Russell as the second host.
Music video by Robert Bidder.
Produced by Tethervision and performed at Caretakers House at Primary, Nottingham, on July 7, 2012.