Storm Mine (stage play)

Storm Mine is a stage play set within the continuity established by the Kaldor City series. It was adapted by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore from Daniel O'Mahony's audio story of the same title.

Publisher's summary
In the sequel to Robots of Death, Blayes and Iago are trapped on a semi-deserted Storm Mine. Kaldor City is quarantined. And no-one can give an answer to the changes that are being wrought on all the crew... human and robot.

Cast

 * Elska Blayes - Kate Millest
 * V23 - Morag Peacock
 * Chief Mover - Sean Mason
 * Kaston Iago - Marlon Solomon
 * Commander - Ben Patterson

Crew

 * Producer - Gareth Kavanagh
 * Director - Sam Al-Hamandi
 * Script Editor - Ian Winterton
 * Voc Masks supplied by Terry Cooper

Reception

 * The blog "Speaker to Animals" described the play "as a better presentation of O'Mahony's script than the audio", citing Kate Millest's Blayes to be a "much more credible assassin than Tracey Russell's" and Morag Peacock's portrayal of robot V23 as "an impressively restrained performance".
 * A review on "The Fiction Stroker" blog said, "There is no doubt that Storm Mine is a complex piece that has a plot across many levels. But the sheer scale and ambition of the plot has got to be admired, and the efforts that Director Sam Al-Hamdani and his cast have gone to in order to bring this to the stage. Yet, against the odds, it works."