Unplugged is a musical disguised as a live music performance. In Unplugged, Yasmine plays Cajun singer-songwriter Antoinette LaFontaine. Antoinette, who has lost her husband and father to oil-related disasters, talks about the inspiration behind her music: the environment and the people she’s loved and lost. Fundamentally, it’s not a heavy-handed piece, it’s a story told from the heart.

Script and music written and performed by Yasmine Van Wilt Yasmine Van Wilt writes and records under her own name and as alien comedy alter ego Elle ‘A’. In 2012, as Elle ‘A’, she released the track Amazing. It reached no. 7 on UK Upfront and Commercial music charts. It has been on more than 20 global networks including Sky TV, Box TV and Lifestyle TV, has been on the radio in more than 30 countries, and has more than 560,000 hits on YouTube. Yasmine is releasing a series of songs from Unplugged, under her own name, in the forthcoming months. 

A little about her recent writing and awards (and a little about acting too). Yasmine completed a PhD this past year and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. Her play The Gift has been shortlisted as a 2015 Women’s International Playwright official selection. Production History: Unplugged originally stemmed from Elle ‘A’ Live and Unplugged which previewed at the Shaw Theatre in August 2012 before opening at the Södra Teatern that same month.

The play was an official selection in the 2012 Women Playwrights International Conference hosted by Riksteatern. It was then performed at the Hospital Club in London in October 2012 and then transferred again to Sweden in 2013, with the support of the EU. Yasmine has gone on to perform variations of the play at a number of venues in Europe and the US. In May 2014, she performed excerpts of the track on NPR’s WMNF radio. She then performed the play at St Leo University and the White Bear Theatre. She will perform the entire play live on WMNF later this summer. The play incorporates excerpts from Yasmine Van Wilt’s We’re Gonna Make You Whole published by Oberon Books. Yasmine’s self-titled new album will be released this summer. It features many of the songs from this production. Melina Theocharidou directed and dramaturged all originating productions of the play between August 2012 and August 2013. Annabel Bates produced and also helped develop the show during this period. It was designed (costume, lighting and set) by Jeffrey Michael.