It’s 1982 and late at night in a childhood treehouse, 16-year old’s Martha and Diane listen in to a stolen police radio. With a brutal murder reported five miles away, their radical mothers protesting to walk the streets at night, and their fathers sitting in the house debating their favourite slashers, the girls contemplate violence, the future, and why the world is so against them. As snippets of police reports bleed through radio frequencies, the girls discover their morbid fascination with the horror unfolding so close to home. 

Since the rise of podcast Serial in 2014, sparking creations like ‘My Favourite Murder’, ‘Morbid’, and more, why do we feel so comfortable profiting on death?

We're not here to shame, we love true crime too. But why? 

Why do women consume content about us getting beaten, abused and murdered in cold blood? Why do men find death so sexy? Why are these real life stories becoming something we are so desensitised to, that we can listen to over dinner, or as background noise to fall asleep to, that make us laugh with the nonchalant hosts? 

All over the world, femicide is on the rise. With reports of recent victims such as Laken Riley, the case of Gisèle Pelicot, and laws against our bodies being changed by the second, ‘Let’s Not Meet’ feels relevant to our world more than ever.  

The show will be creatively captioned, layering audio/visual allows audiences to piece the stories together themselves, and see how the information has changed over time. The medium supports our three story lines; Martha and Diane’s sleepover, the police at the scene, and the podcasters 35 years later. When there are interceptions between past and present, it is the audience that starts to question their relationship with our violent reality.