Category: TV Drama
Date: 28.09.2005
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Susan Lynch (Enduring Love), Joseph Mawle (Dunkirk), Neil Stuke (Faith) and Brendan Coyle (North and South) star in Soundproof, a gripping new urban thriller for BBC TWO which is currently in production for transmission in 2006.
Devised by director Edmund Coulthard (who won a BAFTA for Best New Director for his BBC TWO series Tales From Pleasure Beach) and written by Joe Fisher, an exciting new television writer, Soundproof breaks new ground in bringing deaf and hearing actors together in a compelling and very contemporary whodunit.
Like BBC TWO's award-winning film Flesh and Blood and last year's critically acclaimed film Every Time You Look At Me, Soundproof follows BBC TWO's tradition for bold original and challenging contemporary dramas.
In Soundproof, Chris (Stuke) is thrown off the balcony of a high rise block of flats - and it looks like murder.
Suspicion falls on his flat mate Dean (Mawle) who is profoundly deaf and Penny (Lynch) is the sign language interpreter brought in to help the police question him.
But when Penny bumps into Dean later in a nearby pub, they embark on a secret affair which makes Penny's impartiality as police interpreter harder and harder too sustain.
Dean needs Penny to prove his innocence, but as the police investigation continues, Penny starts to wonder if he is in fact the murderer after all.
Director Edmund Coulthard says: "I wanted to create a rollercoaster thriller that takes the viewer into the experience of being deaf in a very different way.
"In trying to work out whether the lead deaf character is innocent or guilty, the viewer has to experience Dean's world through his eyes."
The cast list also includes Brendan Coyle as Inspector Cox; Diana Martin (See Hear) as Heather and Joanna Dunbar makes her on-screen debut as Jak.
A BBC co-production with Blast! Films, Soundproof is produced by Madonna Baptiste who also produced the Prix Italia award winning film opera The Death of Klinghoffer.
The executive producers are Hilary Salmon (BBC) and Robin Gutch (Blast Films).
Soundproof adds to the extending slate of one-off dramas commissioned for BBC TWO including Magnificent 7, Riot at the Rite and Coup! from BBC Drama Series & Serials headed by Laura Mackie.
