This week on the Northern Stage’s podcast. we talk to theatre director and actor Maria Crocker. Maria tells us about the transition from actor to director, working at the National Theatre, getting boxer as a career option, and making theatre like Gogglebox. It's a thoroughly whizzy hour.
Recorded on Monday 12th October 2020.
Download the transcript here.
Notes
Maria Crocker on Twitter: twitter.com/maria_crocker
Rachel Chavkin: http://theteamplays.org/about/core-company/rachel-chavkin/
The Team: http://theteamplays.org/
JMK Trust: https://www.jmktrust.org/
Hadestown: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/hadestown
Greyscale Theatre Company: https://www.greyscale.org.uk/
Pinocchio: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/pinocchio
John Tiffany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tiffany
Mood Music: https://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2018/mood-music
Headlong: https://headlong.co.uk/
The Letter Room: http://www.theletterroomtheatre.co.uk/
This week we talk to writer, performer, and water drinking human Luca Rutherford. We chat about being a solo maker and how many people that requires, reading and not reading books and apple and cinnamon pancakes. It’s a properly great hour with a properly great person. Give it a listen.
Download the transcript here.
Notes
Audre Lorde - https://alp.org/about/audre
Linda Bloomfield blog - https://www.lindajbloomfield.com/news-and-blog/the-value-of-theatre-and-some-other-thoughts
Tanuja Amarasuriya - http://sleepdogs.org/
Melanie Wilson - https://melaniewilson.org.uk/
Bethany Wells - http://cargocollective.com/bethanywells
Jenni Jackson - https://www.jenniferjackson.net/
Maria Crocker - https://twitter.com/maria_crocker
Lizzie J Klotz - https://www.lizziejklotz.co.uk/
Camisado Club: https://www.camisadoclub.co.uk/
Luca's details: twitter: LucaRutherford | Instagram: luca_rutherford | website: www.luca-rutherford.co.uk
This week on the Northern Stage Theatre Podcast, we talk to Bethan Kitchen from BRASH Theatre. BRASH make bold educational theatre for teenagers and make sex education relevant, political, and unafraid. Bethan & Mark discuss creating noise around issues that regularly get ignored, empowering young people to make decisions for themselves, the juggling act of running a company, and Married at First Sight Australia. It’s eclectic and that is a wonderful thing. Give it a listen.
Recorded on Monday 21st September 2020.
Download the transcript here.
Notes
BRASH Theatre website: https://www.brashtheatre.co.uk/
Raising Shame: https://www.brashtheatre.co.uk/raising-shame
Streetwise: https://www.streetwisenorth.org.uk/
Roma Yagnik: https://www.romayagnik.co.uk/
Byker Audio Stories: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/Pages/FAQs/Category/byker-audio-stories
Married at First Sight Australia: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/married-at-first-sight-australia
The Northern Stage Theatre Podcast is back, back, back! This week, we talk to Anna Robinson a freelance Stage Designer/Sceneographer. We talk about the myriad of skills needed to take an idea from a director's head and fully realise it with time constraints, multiple relationships to manage and all of the time making sure that you produce something remarkable for audiences to enjoy.
Anna also talks about working on Scene Change - a community of theatre designers taking action for theatre - and setting up the North East Theatre Creative Network.
It’s a totally fascinating hour. Give it a listen.
Download the transcript here.
Notes
Anna Robinson: https://arobinsonscene.com/
Young Company: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/Pages/Category/young-people-16-21
Hackney Empire: https://hackneyempire.co.uk/
Peter Brooks 11 & 12: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/feb/11/11-and-12-review
The Secret Theatre: https://secrettheatre.com/
A Streetcar Named Desire: https://lyrictheatre.co.uk/event/a-streetcar-named-desire/
Rhys Jarman: https://rhysjarman.com/
Gecko Theatre: https://www.geckotheatre.com/
The Wedding: https://www.geckotheatre.com/the-wedding
Peter Brook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brook
Scene Change: https://www.scene-change.com/
Scene Change at Northern Stage: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/news/designers-continue-to-wrap-theatres-in-message-of-hope
You're Dead To Me Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07mdbhg/episodes/downloads
National Geographic Tutankhamoon: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/tuts-treasures-hidden-secrets/3vX7PKSXJd09
Disney Plus Imagineering Story: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/the-imagineering-story/6ryoXv1e1rWW
Malcolm Gladwell's Talking To Strangers: https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Strangers-Should-about-People-ebook/dp/B07NDKVWZW
This week's episode of the Northern Stage Podcast is a must-listen for any cultural freelancers, or anyone looking to get into freelancing, or anyone who just likes a really good podcast chat. The amazing Leila D'Aronville talks about setting up the community group Tyne & Wear Cultural Freelancers, how she got into freelancing herself, her work at Sage Gateshead, and with many other great cultural initiatives, as well as appearing in front of the House of Lords, and a top tip for a great Vegan Cheesecake.
It's a simply marvelous hour of podcast goodness. Have a listen.
Download the transcript here.
Notes
Tyne & Wear Cultural Freelancers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/culturalfreelancers
Leila D'Aronville on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dangerville?s=20
Bretton Hall: https://www.bretton-hall.com/
Sage Gateshead: sagegateshead.com
Mongrel UK: https://www.facebook.com/MongrelUK/
Bridge North East: http://www.bridgenortheast.com/
Northern Roots: https://northern-roots.org.uk/
Asunder: https://www.1418now.org.uk/commissions/asunder/
Freedom City: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2018/04/freedomcityexhibition/
Jumpin Hot Club: http://www.jumpinhot.com/
Journal Culture Awards: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/journal-gazette-culture-awards-2020-17668227
Wor Culture: https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=8390560
Arts Council: https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
Department of Culture Media & Sport (DCMS): https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-digital-culture-media-sport
What's Next? Young Vic: https://www.whatnextculture.co.uk/chapters/young-vic/
The Cumberland Arms: http://www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk/
Simply Cheesecake: https://www.facebook.com/simplycheesecake.co.uk/
Mean Eyed Cat: https://www.meaneyedcat.co.uk/
The Cluny: https://thecluny.com/
Dynasty: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80179394
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/buffy-the-vampire-slayer
This week on the Northern Stage Theatre Podcast, we have a conversation with two members of the Artistic & Creative Team behind theatre company The Six Twenty - Artistic Director Melanie Rashbrooke and Project Coordinator Steven Blackshaw. Melanie & Steven talk about setting fire to what theatre can be by turning it into an experience that begins well before the curtain rises and long after it drops and making head-banging new theatre for a good night out.
Transcript available here.
Notes
The Six Twenty: https://thesixtwenty.com/
The Six Twenty Current Shows: Redcoat, Busy, Mixtape, The Breakfast Club & Club Six Twenty: https://thesixtwenty.com/current/
The Six Twenty Past Shows: Fans, Breakfast Heart/Choirplay & Hamlet: https://thesixtwenty.com/past-shows-events/
The Newbridge Project: https://thenewbridgeproject.com/
Live Theatre: https://www.live.org.uk/
gobscure: https://gobscure.wixsite.com/info
Coracle: https://mattjamie1.wixsite.com/coracle
Alphabetti: https://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/
The Paper Birds Theatre Company: https://www.thepaperbirds.com/
Summer Streets Festival: https://www.facebook.com/SummerStreetsFestival/
GIFT Festival: https://www.giftfestival.co.uk/
The Sims: https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/the-sims
The Awkward Yeti: https://theawkwardyeti.com/
Story of my F******* Life: https://www.instagram.com/storyofmyfuckinglife/?hl=en
GrownUpLand: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ys9yl
Off The Menu: https://www.offmenupodcast.co.uk/
Louis Theroux Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p089sfrz/episodes/downloads
This week on the Northern Stage Podcast we talk to Annie Rigby of Unfolding Theatre. Annie talks about figuring out how to make the theatre you want to make, trying to remember the words for Talking Heads songs, and her love of darts. It’s a proper good conversation, packed full of great thinking, laughter and one that will pick you up if you need a little pick me up. Have a listen and a much needed laugh.
Download the transcript here.
Notes:
Unfolding Theatre: https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/
Hold On Let Go: https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/hold-on-let-go
Best In The World: https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/best-in-the-world
Putting The Band Back Together: https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/putting-the-band-back-together
Multiverse Arcade: https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/multiverse-arcade
Clore Leadership Programme: https://www.cloreleadership.org/
Phelim McDermott: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phelim_McDermott
Improbable Theatre: https://www.improbable.co.uk/
Open Clasp Theatre Company: https://www.openclasp.org.uk/
Dodgy Clutch Theatre Company: http://dodgyclutch.com/home/
Theatre Sans Frontier: https://www.tsf.org.uk/
North East Theatre Guide: http://www.northeasttheatreguide.co.uk/
Amy Golding: https://curiousmonkeytheatre.com/about-us/
Curious Monkey: https://curiousmonkeytheatre.com/
Kate Craddock: https://www.britishcouncil.us/programmes/arts/generate/participants/kate-craddock
Once In A Lifetime – Talking Heads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=5IsSpAOD6K8
Paul Smith: https://twitter.com/paulsmithmusic
Battersea Arts Centre: https://www.bac.org.uk/
Richard Duffy: http://everything-theatre.co.uk/tag/richard-duffy
Ross Millard: https://twitter.com/rgtmillard
Alan Lyddiard: https://twitter.com/alanlydd
Erica Whyman: https://twitter.com/ericawhyman
Selina Thompson: https://selinathompson.co.uk/
Mariam Rezaei: https://twitter.com/mariamrezaei
Becky Owen: https://beccyowen.bandcamp.com/
Brendan Murphy: http://www.brendanmurphy.me/
Imogen Cloet: https://www.imogencloet.com/
Luca Rutherford: http://www.luca-rutherford.co.uk/
Woodhorn Museum: https://museumsnorthumberland.org.uk/woodhorn-museum/
The Quest of Missing Questions: https://museumsnorthumberland.org.uk/news/woodhorn-museum-marks-reopening-with-the-quest-of-missing-questions
Bethan Maddox: http://www.bethanmaddocks.com/
Ruth Johnson: https://www.ruthmaryjohnson.com/
Alphabetti Theatre: https://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/
Seven Stories: https://www.sevenstories.org.uk/
Dance City: https://www.dancecity.co.uk/
North East Culture Social: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/ne-culture-social
Mortal Fools: https://www.mortalfools.org.uk/
Fuel Theatre: https://fueltheatre.com/
Alison Carr: https://alisoncarr.co.uk/
Flights: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flights-WINNER-BOOKER-INTERNATIONAL-PRIZE/dp/1910695432
Drive Your Plow Over Bones: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drive-Your-Plow-over-Bones/dp/1910695718
Primeval and Other Times: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Primeval-Other-Times-Olga-Tokarczuk/dp/8086264351
Girl Woman Other: https://www.waterstones.com/book/girl-woman-other/bernardine-evaristo/9780241984994
I May Destroy You: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000jyxy/i-may-destroy-you
Gardeners World: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006mw1h/gardeners-world
GoggleBox: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/gogglebox/on-demand/62780-001
This week, Mark catches up with Alphabetti Theatre's creator and Artistic & Executive Director, Ali Pritchard. Ali tells us about wanting to be the UK's Jack Black and nearly singing for the UK at Eurovision, his skills as a plumber and accountant, and we find out more about the incredible and game changing grassroots theatre that is Alphabetti.
A truly joyous listen from start to finish, with extra special guest appearances from Rex the dog and Paula Penman. It's eclectic.
Transcript available to download here.
Notes
Alphabetti Theatre: https://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/
BETTi Recommends: https://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/bettirecommends
Alphabetti Online Performances: https://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/online-performances
Inua Ellams: http://www.inuaellams.com/
Holy Moly and the Crackers: https://www.holymolyandthecrackers.com/
'Theatre that made us' article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jul/10/theatres-that-made-us-sophie-stone-suzi-ruffell
The Tin Ring: https://www.thetinring.com/
Academy of Contemporary Music: https://www.acm.ac.uk/
Northumbria University Theatre & Performance BA: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/courses/ba-hons-theatre-and-performance-uustpe1/
Madlug: https://www.madlug.com/
Bonnie & the Bonnettes: https://www.bonnieandthebonnettes.co.uk/
The Dog & Parrot: http://thedogandparrot.co.uk/
Live Theatre: https://www.live.org.uk/
ARC Stockton: https://arconline.co.uk/
Woven Nest: https://www.facebook.com/wovennesttheatre/
Sunday for Sammy: https://www.sundayforsammy.org/
The Ballinger Charitable Trust: https://www.ballingercharitabletrust.org.uk/
This week, we caught up with playwright, director, Open Clasp Associate Director and clown doctor Laura Lindow. We talk to Laura about how she went from making virtuoso hot chocolates to writing such Northern Stage smash hits as The War of the Worlds and The Snow Queen and Cap-a-Pie's Woven Bones, the need for wine budgets, and the stages of the writing process including the Formless Hunch and Active Mulling. Enjoy.
Transcript available to download here.
Resource links:
Laura Lindow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tantaloupe?lang=en
Open Clasp Theatre Company: https://www.openclasp.org.uk/
Theatre Workshop Stocksbridge: https://www.edinburghguide.com/venue/theatreworkshopformer
Northumbria University Theatre & Performance BA: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/courses/ba-hons-theatre-and-performance-uustpe1/
Live Theatre: https://www.live.org.uk/
The Empty Space: https://www.esonline.org/
Heartbreak Soup: https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/heartbreaksoup-rev
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: https://www.edfringe.com/
Leighton Live: https://www.facebook.com/leightonhall.live/
Cap-a-Pie: https://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/
Woven Bones: https://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/woven-bones/
Credit: https://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/credit/
The Adam Buxton Podcast: https://www.adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts
Spoonface Steinberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonface_Steinberg
Key Change: https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/key-change
Writers Group - Royal Court: https://royalcourttheatre.com/playwriting/writers-groups/
The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud5jsvC1x4g
NORTH The War of the Worlds: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/feb/02/the-war-of-the-worlds-review-hg-wells
The Snow Queen: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/news/cast-and-creative-team-announced-for-the-snow-queen
A Play, A Pint and A Pie: https://playpiepint.com/
Traverse Theatre: https://www.traverse.co.uk/
Playwrights' Studio Scotland: https://www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk/
Sea Window Craster: https://twitter.com/seaskycraster?lang=en
Caroline Bird: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/caroline-bird
This week we talk to the phenomenal Erica Whyman once of Northern Stage and now the Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Erica talks to us about her experience of last 18 weeks: from closing shows while having symptoms to how she sees the future for our industry all delivered with a healthy dose of idealism. Hope you enjoy
Transcript available to download here.
Resource links:
Royal Shakespeare Company: https://www.rsc.org.uk/
The WInter's Tale: https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-winters-tale
The Comedy of Errors: https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-comedy-of-errors
Matilda: https://uk.matildathemusical.com/#coronavirus-modal
The Other Place: https://www.rsc.org.uk/your-visit/the-other-place
Shakespeare's Stratford: https://www.rsc.org.uk/your-visit/shakespeares-stratford
Southwark Playhouse: https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/
Swan Theatre: https://www.rsc.org.uk/your-visit/swan-theatre
Maria Aberg: http://www.mariaaberg.com/
Project Europa: https://www.rsc.org.uk/news/projekt-europa
Gate Theatre: https://www.gatetheatre.co.uk/
The Whip: https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-whip/
Juliet Gilkes Romero: https://www.julietgilkesromero.co.uk/
The Mill Art Centre: https://www.themillartscentre.co.uk/
Scene Change: https://www.scene-change.com/
The Crucible Sheffield: https://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/
Tarek Iskander: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/dec/21/new-artistic-director-of-battersea-arts-centre-is-tarek-iskander
Battersea Arts Centre: https://www.bac.org.uk/
This week on the Northern Stage podcast we have a conversation with the Hannah Goudie-Hunter and Bob Nicholson the magical folks behind Kitchen Zoo. Bob, Hannah & Mark chat about making processes, the demands of doing every job to get something in front of an audience and the value of family work and how it’s viewed.
This is a great chance to look behind the curtain and delve into Kitchen Zoo's rehearsal room to find out just how they make their incredible shows.
Special thanks to Katie Doherty and Jeremy Bradfield for the original compositions heard within this recording.
Download the transcript here.
Resources
Kitchen Zoo: https://www.facebook.com/KitchenZoo/
The Owl and the Pussycat: https://youtu.be/tl4E_L5N7kw
The Tin Foil Astronaut: https://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/family/the-tin-foil-astronaut-0
The Three Bears: https://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/family/the-three-bears
WOLF!: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1522304367894020
NORTH: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/north-companies-2019
ARC Stockton: https://arconline.co.uk/
Camisado Club: https://www.camisadoclub.co.uk/
Brad McComick part of: https://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/
Alison Ashton: https://www.alisonashton.co.uk/
Jeremy Bradfield: https://jeremybradfield.bandcamp.com/
Katie Doherty: https://www.katiedoherty.co.uk/
Matthew Tuckey: https://www.matthewtuckey.co.uk/
Ruth Mary Johnson: https://www.ruthmaryjohnson.com/
Wally Funk's Race for Space: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wally-Funks-Race-Space-Extraordinary/dp/1908906340
Bridge Theatre A Midsummer Night's Dream: https://bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/a-midsummer-nights-dream/
National Theatre Small Island: http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/73263-small-island
The WInd in the Willows: https://www.willowsmusical.com/
I May Destroy You: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000jyxy/i-may-destroy-you
Killing Eve: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p06jy6bc/killing-eve
Normal People: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g8rs/normal-people
This week's episode is a full-on happiness injection. Mark and Louie speak to the Ambassadors of positivity and fun Hannabiell Sanders & Yilis Suriel. We talk about the Harambee Pasadia festival a 4-day family camping extravaganza in celebration of diverse cultures, foods, music, artists, and fusions of the African diaspora, in a conversation packed full of great thinking, positivity and laughter, something we all need right now.
Have a listen it will lift your soul
Download the transcript here.
Resources
Harambee Pasadia: https://www.harambeepasadia.com/
Ladies of Midnight Blue: https://www.hannabiell.com/ladies-of-midnight-blue.html
Volunteer Scotland: https://www.volunteerscotland.net/
Angelou Centre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angelou_Centre
Leading Link: http://www.leadinglink.co.uk/
Jack Drum Arts: https://www.jackdrum.co.uk/
Northern Alchemy: https://www.wearenorthernalchemy.com/
The Cumberland Arms: http://www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk/
Rutgers Centre for Latino Arts & Culture: http://clac.rutgers.edu/
Naomi Klein 'The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism': https://tsd.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine.html
Performance, Ethos, & Everyday Activism | Ladies of Midnight Blue | TEDxNewcastle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BfScWQIjwA
This week on the Northern Stage Theatre Podcast, Mark and Humira talk to sound designer and artist, Matthew Tuckey. In this conversation, we talk to Matt about sound, its complexities, its abilities, and its infinite possibilities to shape stories.
There are some really exciting opportunities that sound offers for the future of the theatre industry by offering other platforms to showcase the work made within the region. So please do check out Matt's webinars from the 13th to the 20th and the 27th of July - find out more here.
Download the transcript here.
Resource links:
An Introduction to Audio Drama: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-audio-drama-and-voiceover-recording-techniques-tickets-111801806212
Nick John Williams: http://www.nickjohnwilliams.co.uk/
A Christmas Carol: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/news/cast-and-creative-team-announced-for-a-christmas-carol
Alice in Wonderland: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/news/cast-and-creative-team-announcement-alice-in-wonderland
Mortal Fools: https://www.mortalfools.org.uk/
Alphabetti Theatre: https://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/
Novo Productions: https://www.novoproductions.co.uk/
This week on the Northern Stage Theatre Podcast, we get curious with Phil Douglas, Artistic Director of Curious Arts - a producer, curator, leader and change maker. In this conversation Mark talks with Phil about enabling change, following an idea that is driven by heart and moving a festival on line. Hope you enjoy.
Download the transcript here.
Resource links:
Curious Arts: https://curiousarts.org.uk/
Dance City: https://www.dancecity.co.uk/
Queer Arts North: https://curiousarts.org.uk/queer-arts-north
Audio Queer and Stay Home Stay Queer: https://curiousarts.org.uk/projects
Homotopia Festival: https://www.homotopia.net/
Contact Manchester: https://contactmcr.com/
dandysocpic: https://twitter.com/dandysocpic
Mandla Rae: http://artreach.biz/our-people/mandla-rae/
Ro Hardaker: http://www.rohardaker.co.uk/
Roma Havers: https://twitter.com/amorbackwards
Bordello Theatre: https://www.bordellotheatre.net/
Ricky Beedle-Blair: https://twitter.com/RikkiBB
Jen Carss: https://www.theatre.mmu.ac.uk/profile/jennifer-carss/
Queerious Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/queeriouspodcast
Zoe Murtagh: https://arconline.co.uk/zoe-murtagh
Richard Bliss: https://thenewbridgeproject.com/portfolio/richard-bliss/
Spectacular Drag Storytime: https://www.sevenstories.org.uk/whats-on/events/860/spectacular-drag-storytime
Lawnmowers Theatre Company: https://www.facebook.com/LawnmowersITC/
Jeffery Epstein: Filthy Rich: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80224905
Athlete A: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81034185
This week we have our first international guest as Louie speaks to activist, director, writer, actor, aerialist, change maker and enabler Rosa Stourac McCreery who is all the way in Canada.
Our conversation takes us through theatrical forms of Theatre of the Oppressed, community theatre, legislative theatre. Rosa also speaks about her work making theatre for social change with Cardboard Citizens and as a founding member of social enterprise skate park Dynamix.
A fascinating insight into the application of theatre in different cultural and creative settings.
Download the transcript here.
Resource Links:
Theatre of The Oppressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed
Cardboard Citizens: https://cardboardcitizens.org.uk/
Dynamix: https://www.dynamixcic.org/
Red Ladder Theatre Company: http://www.redladder.co.uk/
Rock Against Racism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Against_Racism
Martha Gellhorn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn
Charles Mungoshi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mungoshi
Augusto Boal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal
Tin Arts: http://tinarts.co.uk/
The Encounter - Complicite: http://www.complicite.org/productions/theencounter
A Doll's House: http://www.tanikagupta.com/a-dolls-house/
The Grizzlies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grizzlies
Killing Eve: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p06jy6bc/killing-eve
Schitt's Creek: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80036165
Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
Yanis Varoufakis: Talking To My Daughter About The Economy: https://www.waterstones.com/book/talking-to-my-daughter-about-the-economy/yanis-varoufakis/9781784705756
Miriam Toews: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Toews
This week, we move to a series of conversations that explore where we find ourselves as a country, and as an interconnected world. We’re examining the role the arts, and artists, have in reflecting that world, and in making and shaping it.
This conversation is between Louie and Martin Hylton, Artistic Director of Gateway Studios – joined by writer, theatre maker in the making, and Executive Assistant Humira Imtiaiz and of course, our Podcast Producer, Johnny Rothwell.
This episode is an emotionally honest expression and exploration of the stark realities and difficult experiences that racism in all its forms, causes, and how we are more than ever overdue the change that we are seeking.
Download the transcript here.
Resource Links:
Gateway Studio Project: https://www.gatewaystudios.co.uk/
Northern School of Contemporary Dance: https://www.nscd.ac.uk/
Phoenix Dance Theatre: https://www.phoenixdancetheatre.co.uk/
Tees Valley Dance: https://www.facebook.com/Tees-Valley-Dance-286854274806681/
Dance City: https://www.dancecity.co.uk/
Clore Leadership Programme: https://www.cloreleadership.org/
Where Do We Belong Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-DijhCKi6Q
This week, Mark and Louie had an extraordinary, funny and life-affirming conversation with director, writer, teacher, activist and rebel punk rocker Vici Wreford Sinnott. Vici is the Artistic Director of Little Cog, an exciting arts organisation specialising in Disability Art, theatre, and training and in this episode we discover more about the being on the edges of the status quo, trying to bring about change with engaging and exciting work, and having a boss night out.
Warning: this episode may make you cry (in a good way).
Transcript available to download here.
Resource links:
Little Cog: www.viciwreford-sinnott.com/little-cog.html
Disonsortia: disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/disconsortia-a-disabled-artist-led-consortium-of-extraordinary-voices/
Disability Arts Online: disabilityarts.online/
ARCADEA: www.arcadea.org/
Another England: www.viciwreford-sinnott.com/another-england---a-punch-packed-play-by-disabled-writer-is-a-call-to-action.html
Siege: homemcr.org/production/siege-part-1/
Homemakers: homemcr.org/event/homemakers/
North East Culture Social: www.northernstage.co.uk/ne-culture-social
Gateway Studios: www.gatewaystudios.co.uk/
ARC Stockon Arts Centre: https://arconline.co.uk/
This week, Mark & Louie talk to Matthew Xia the Artistic Director of Actors Touring Company. Matthew is a director, composer, broadcaster, journalist and DJ and one fo the first DJ’s on Radio 1 Extra and in this conversation we talk with Matthew about process, rehearsal rooms, opportunity and of course music. This is a great hour, which we hope will make you feel really energised and eager to get into a rehearsal room and make something afterwards.
Transcript available to download here.
Resource links:
Actors Touring Company (ATC): www.atctheatre.com
Orange Tree Theatre: www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk/
Amsterdam (play): www.atctheatre.com/productions/amsterdam-2020
International Performing Rights: https://iprltd.co.uk/
Chiarsocuro: stagedoorapp.com/lyn-gardner/review-chiaroscuro?ia=254
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester: www.royalexchange.co.uk
This week, we've got the sequel to last week's Shandyland episode as Mark and Matt chat to Gareth Farr, the writer of Shandyland, Gareth also wrote The Bridge, The Quiet House and Britannia Waves the Rules. It's a corker with Gareth giving a great insight into his writing process, teaching, the nerves of press night and winning the Bruntwood Prize.
Transcript available to download here.
Resource links:
Gareth Farr – Curtis Brown page: www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/gareth-farr
Hannah Banister - Curtis Brown page: www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/hannah-banister
The Quiet House: www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/the-quiet-house-iid-179381
Brittania Waves the Rules: www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/britannia-waves-the-rules-iid-187700
The Bridge: www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/gareth-farr/work/the-bridge-3
The Old Vic 12: www.oldvictheatre.com/join-in/for-creatives/the-old-vic-12
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC): www.rsc.org.uk
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting: www.writeaplay.co.uk
Arts Ed: artsed.co.uk
Royal Exchange Theatre: www.royalexchange.co.uk
In The Dark - podcast: www.apmreports.org/in-the-dark
You're Dead To Me - podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07mdbhg/episodes/downloads
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair - available from all good and evil bookshops
Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield - available from all good and evil bookshops
Mark and Matt chat to director an theatre maker Hannah Banister about taking time, how to navigate the ups and downs, ins and outs of the theatre industry and Shandyland, our new co-production which Hannah was directing and would have been on at Northern Stage this month. Hannah is at all times funny, honest and full of clarity. It’s such a great listen… we hope you enjoy.
Transcript available to download here.
Resource links:
Hannah Banister - Curtis Brown page: www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/hannah-banister
Gareth Farr – Curtis Brown page: www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/gareth-farr
Newcastle College: www.ncl-coll.ac.uk
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama www.cssd.ac.uk
Hampstead Theatre: www.hampsteadtheatre.com
Ed Hall - Enlightenment: www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2010/enlightenment/
Max Webster - Life of Pi: www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/news/life-of-pi-director-gives-us-a-sneak-peek-into-rehearsals
Nina Raine - Tiger Country www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2014/tiger-country/
Jeremy Herrin - The Tempest: globeplayer.tv/videos/the-tempest-english
Old Vic - New Voices: ovnv.lgfl.org.uk/
The Old Vic 12: www.oldvictheatre.com/join-in/for-creatives/the-old-vic-12
I Killed Rasputin – Richard Herring play: www.richardherring.com/ikr/
National Theatre: New Work Department: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/about-the-national-theatre/new-work
The JMK Award: www.jmktrust.org/the-jmk-award/
Headlong: Angels In America: headlong.co.uk/productions/angels-america/
Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme (RTYDS): www.rtyds.co.uk/
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara: www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Life-Hanya-Yanagihara/dp/1447294815
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast: www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
Pod Save The World: crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-world/
The Morning Show - available on Apple TV
RuPaul’s Drag Race - available on Netflix
The Last Dance - available on Netflix
Homeland - available on Channel 4
Killing Eve - available on BBC iPlayer
Unorthodox -available on Netflix
Outliers: The Story of Success Paperback: www.amazon.co.uk/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0141036257
The Missing Cryptowqueen podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84/episodes/downloads
Community - available on Netflix