The Silenced
Autumn 2021
MacEwan Sandars has disappeared. Can you find him before it’s too late?
The first 48 hours are the most crucial… The clock is ticking…
The Silenced was an immersive, interactive thriller for teams of six people. Set in Dumfries and Galloway, this gripping mystery whisked you away from your everyday life and plunged you into a thrilling, real time, four-week long story, full of exciting twists and turns.
Using their smartphones, audiences worked together to unpick clues, solve puzzles and unravel this story full of suspense, intrigue and uncertainty.
Gather together. Join the hunt. Uncover the truth.
Scenes by Martin McCormick, this ground-breaking digital performance was part of the Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival 2021.
The Cast
Training: Edinburgh College of Art
Theatre & Television Credits Include: The Road Dance (Sheridan Road), 24 Hours of Peace (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Molly and Mack (CBeebies), River City (BBC Studios), Armchair Detectives (Tiger Aspect), But That Was Then (Oran Mor), Locker Room Talk (Traverse), Voices in Her Ear (Oran Mor), Funny How? (WitsHerFace), Wakefield Mysteries (Theatre Royal, Wakefield),
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Ghosts (Tron), Shetland (BBC), Titus Andronicus (Dundee Rep), Horizontal Collaborations (Traverse), Ophelia (Oran Mor), Where Do We Go From Here (Worrying Drake). In 2015, Alison was nominated for a Best Actress (Film) at the Scottish BAFTAs for her performance in Where Do We Go From Here?
Training: RSAMD
Theatre & Television Credits Include: An Edinburgh Christmas Carol (Royal Lyceum), Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window (Oran Mor), Scot Squad (The Comedy Unit), Twelfth Night (Royal Lyceum), McGonagalls’ Chronicles (Oran Mor), The Arabian Nights (Royal Lyceum), Part of the Picture (Bletherbox), The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Dundee Rep), The Winter’s Tale (Royal Lyceum)
Training: New College Lanarkshire
Theatre includes: Beauty and the Beast Pantomime (Hamilton Townhouse and Rutherglen Town Hall); Zombie Prom (101 Park Street); Aladdie: Blantyre Pantomine (Carrigan’s Blantyre); Seussical the Musical (New Clan Arts Studio); Our Town (Scottish Youth Theatre); Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland)
Training: Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
Theatre & Television Credits Include: An Edinburgh Christmas Carol (Royal Lyceum), Bill McLaren: The Voice of Rugby (Firebrand), Wizard of Oz (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Dick Whittington (Imagine), The Gardener (EFF), Outlander (Starz), The Voice Thief (Catherine Wheels), Outlying Islands (Firebrand), Tin Forest South-West (NTS), The Woman In Black (PW Productions),
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Dear Brutus (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Iron (Firebrand), The Tempest (Dundee Rep), Educating Agnes (Royal Lyceum).
Crawford has also had a stellar career in radio drama, familiar to BBC Radio 4 listeners as Paul Temple in the Paul Temple Mysteries. His more recent voice work includes Borgen (Netflix), The Bard’s Tale (InXile Entertainment) Why Mummy Drinks, 44 Scotland Street, Plain Murder, and The World Before Yesterday: BBC Book of the Week (BBC).
Training: Queen Margaret University College
Theatre & Television Credits Include: Eye Exam (20th Digital Studio), Lyceum Christmas Tales (Lyceum), Camino (Oran Mor), Pinocchio (Citizens Theatre), Red Dust Road (NTS), Coriolanus Vanishes (Fire Exit), The Last Bordello (Fire Exit), The Persians (Oran Mor), Cinderella (Citizens Theatre), High Society (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Mary Rose (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), People
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(Pitlochry Festival Theatre), The Ruling Class (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Hansel & Gretel (Citizens Theatre), The Course of True Love (Fire Exit), The Crucible (Lyceum)
Radio credits include: The Cat, McLevy, Rebus – Black and Blue, Heart of Midlothian, For the Love of Willie (BBC Radio 4), Prostitution (BBC Scotland).
In 2018, Irene was the winner of The Stage Edinburgh Award for Coriolanus Vanishes.
Theatre: Sunshine on Leith (Leeds Playhouse), Crude (Grid Iron), Dunsinane (RSC), Any Given Day (Traverse Theatre), Pandas (Traverse Theatre), Relocated (Royal Court) Noughts and Crosses (RSC), Mary Stuart (National Theatre of Scotland), That Face (Tron Theatre), Strawberries In January (Paines Plough/ Traverse Theatre), A Madman Sings To The Moon (Royal Lyceum), 8000M (Suspect Culture/ Tramway), Julius Caesar (Royal Lyceum),
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Damages (Bush Theatre), Stitching (Traverse Theatre), Macbeth (Cage Theatre Company at The Landor), The Robbers (The Gate Theatre), The Boat Players (The Gate Theatre), Napoli Milionaria (RNT), King Lear (RNT – American and World Tour), Richard III (RNT – American and World Tour), Lady Betty (Cheek by Jowl).
Television: Deadwater Fell (Channel 4), Traces (BBC), Killing Eve (BBC), Strikeback (Sky 1), Vera, (ITV), Jekyll and Hyde (ITV), Ripper Street (Amazon Prime), Fleming (Sky), Dracula (NBC/ Carnival), Blue Haven (BBC), Rubinesque (Sky), M.I. High (BBC), Privates (BBC), Garrow’s Law (BBC), Taggart (ITV), Ghost Squad (Channel 4), Family (London Weekend Television), The Lost Battalion (A&E Television), Band of Brothers (Dreamworks/ HBO), Lost In France (BBC), Silent Witness (BBC), The Place Of The Dead (London Weekend Television), Soldier Soldier (Central Television), The Bill (ITV), Richard II (Carnival), Crime Traveller (Carnival), Heartbeat (Granada), Lovejoy (BBC).
Film: Hurricane (Head Gear Films), Clash Of The Titans, (Gorgon Films), The Shepherd (Shepherd Productions), George And The Dragon (Carousel), Simon Magus (Silesia Films/ Channel 4), The Star, Joan Of Arc (Leeloo Productions), The Debt Collector (Dragon Pictures), The Turning Tide (Broken Spectre), Beginners Luck.
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