The Talent2021

By Action Hero in collaboration with Deborah Pearson – sound design by Yas Clarke

The Talent is a solo show about a voice-over artist alone in a sound booth, voicing adverts, audiobooks, meditation tapes, games and robo-calls for directors who are never seen. It asks what happens to the voice once it leaves the body, and what our voices might leave behind in a future without us.

Winner of the Off West End Award 2024 for Best Performance (IDEA category).

Performed by Gemma Paintin. Text by Gemma Paintin, Deborah Pearson and James Stenhouse; directed by Deborah Pearson and James Stenhouse; lighting by Alex Fernandes; set by Camilla Clarke; dramaturgy by Tania El Khoury.

Co-commissioned by Teatro do Bairro Alto, South Street Arts, University of Reading and Cambridge Junction. Developed at PACT Zollverein, supported by Bristol Old Vic Ferment and funded by Arts Council England.