GO ASK ALICE short film 2005

Alys Williams and Monica Alcazar co-designed and constructed the film set for 'Go Ask Alice', a short film produced and directed by final year students at the London Film School and written by Janis Pugh.

The short film portrays the life of a recently widowed woman as she moves into a new flat within a huge seemingly unfriendly estate.  Isolated and in morning for her recently deseased husband, she slowly unpacks her belongings and tries to imagine a new life in her unfamiliar and cold surroundings.  It is not long before she meets Alice, a flamboyant character who changes the way she imagines her future and reflects on her past, offering her an alternative lifestyle.  The plot is carefully portrayed in the scenography of the flat.  As her new life unfolds and she unpacks the boxes that fill the flat, colour and lightness seep into the film. Greys are transformed and lightened by the colour of new begins and hope.

Set build and filmed at The Camden Studio, London.

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THE VEILED CONSPIRACY theatre 2004

The Veiled Conspiracy was produced and first performed at  La Herreria in Seville Spain in 2005.  It was a co-production by Kat Joyce (Director/Writer) and Alys Williams (Director/Scenographer), and toured to the ACT Festival in Bilbao in 2005. 

The audience is seated in front of a projection screen that displays a short scene, between a man and a woman, filmed in the style of a Hollywood classic.  The screen is then suddenly removed to reveal the audience's position inside the original set.  Three veiled women appear, remove their veils and play out the script of the virgin, the mother and the prostitute, in front of a television screen, which is occupied by the same film set and the man, who tries to maintain a dialogue with the three characters on stage.  In the corner of the set a sleeping figure remains almost motionless throughout, recognised as the man on the television screen but revealed in their true identity at the end.  This disclosure gives a further spin on the audience's concept of ambiguous perception, a theme that binds the various elements into the whole.

Language: Spanish. Photograph credits: Stephen Williams.