From The Ashes – A Collaborative Documentary

In 2018 I was commissioned by Curious Monkey theatre company to make a collaborative documentary about a group of people from Ashington writing and recording a radio play.

Curious Monkey were commissioned by Woodhorn Charitable Trust, through the BAIT programme, to create ‘From The Ashes’. From March 2018 -March 2019, the Curious Monkey team collaborated with people of different generations in Ashington to create an audio drama inspired by stories from people in South East Northumberland. Together the group wrote, performed and recorded the radio play to be broadcast on Koast Radio in May 2019.  

The film is a collaborative documentary in which members of the group filmed and interviewed themselves for