Episodes of Play Inside’s powerful new form of immersive audio story experience are now available to download. Love, Conditionally is a new series of intimate short audio stories centring around queer love, relationships and not fitting family expectations from anonymous Palestinian, Egyptian, and British writers.
Written as an inner monologue, where the audience is encouraged to mirror the actions of the character around their home, this new form enables shared moments of physical and emotional intimacy and the chance to glimpse into another person’s world. The audience spends time with Palestinian, Egyptian, British and UK Arab dual heritage writers, who present stories from their own perspectives of being persuaded, argued, and dragged into conformity by the people they care for most.
Play Inside Series 3, Love, Conditionally is the second of two new podcast series created with the Palestinian Freedom Theatre, commissioned by the British Council, and launched by Play Inside this year. These experiential podcasts encourage the listener to experience the stories in their own home as the characters move around in theirs, while mirroring the actions described.
These four short stories, all from anonymous authors, will be made available in English and Arabic from Monday 4th December. The stories present rare perspectives on Arab and British (and Arab-British) experience across family, sexuality, and gender. They are launched at a time when it’s more important than ever to listen to underrepresented voices from these groups and allow people from marginalized groups to see themselves reflected. This intimate experiential podcast format enables us to understand complexities, similarities, and differences across cultures through the sensory as well as the imagination.
Play Inside tells untold stories from unusual perspectives informed by first hand experiences, deepening our compassion and understanding for other people’s lived experiences.
