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Wooden Overcoats S2 E3: Take a Letter, Miss Crusoe

12/11/2016

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Click to be taken to Season Two: Episode Three!
Our third episode of the new series is one of my own scripts: Take a Letter, Miss Crusoe. This episode puts Georgie front and centre for the first time in Wooden Overcoats and sees her quitting the funeral business to take up a job elsewhere. Can Rudyard win her back? 

Georgie has long been one of my favourite Piffling residents to write for, though it wasn't until we cast Ciara Baxendale in the role - way back in May 2015 - that the character came together in my head. Initially she was to have been an archetypal long-suffering lackey, and that's how she was written in my earliest drafts, yet she wasn't really leaping off the page and my fellow Series 1 writers weren't entirely sure what to do with her. I decided to take the character in a different direction. Making her entirely unflappable - and great at everything - gave us all far more to work with, and then Ciara's casting provided that distinctly deadpan delivery that made her seem, if anything, more surreal than anybody around her. I'm very pleased to have written the first "Georgie episode," which gives her a chance to interact with the wider world of Piffling - and places her in the middle of a very difficult situation indeed... 
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This episode also sees the return of the Piffling Vale Village Counsel, with recently appointed Vice Chairman Eric Chapman, an increasingly distracted Reverend Wavering, and Catriona Knox giving us a delightfully potty performance as Lady Vivienne Templar. Presiding over all, however, is the formerly Right Honourable Mayor Desmond Desmond, saddled with a crippling fear of secretaries and still hoping to turn Piffling Vale from a village into a town. Steve Hodson was sadly unable to reprise the role but we were incredibly lucky to have Sean Baker, who turns in a masterful study of childlike joy and spiralling paranoia. 

You can download Episode Three from iTunes or your preferred podcasting client, or listen to it on the main Wooden Overcoats website. And that's not all: if you're in London on Monday 14th November, you can even catch the second in our current series of Live Shows. We'll be performing both Take a Letter, Miss Crusoe and next Thursday's episode The Sweet, Sweet Taste of Death before it's even been released online! Our last show sold out so book here to nab a ticket while you can.
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