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Actor and writer, who recently masterminded a viral Shakespeare video, stars in a new drama about life under lockdown and is ready to reveal her one-woman play, HeartHottest front-room seats: theatre and dance to watch onlineLast week, Jade Anouka announced on Twitter: “Gonna shoot my own short film!” She had been contacted by a theatre company for an acting role, but such are our extraordinary times of social distancing, she was asked to shoot her own footage as well for the nine-minute monologue written by Aisha Zia and directed by Suba Das.
“It was down to me to work out the shots. I got some pointers from Suba and recorded it on my
iPhone,” says the London-born actor, poet and playwright. She soundproofed her
London flat as best as she could and shot snippets of everyday life from “the view out of the window to my dog sleeping or barking”.