Alan Cumming (Act I)

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Stage Door Jonny

Jonathan Cake

82 episodes

4 months ago

Hosted by actor Jonathan Cake, Stage Door Jonny is a podcast about theatre ... and life ... and life in the theatre. Jonathan has appeared in countless plays around the world - and made a fair few celebrated acquaintances along the way. So it is that he's assembled a formidable cast of actors, directors and writers to share their memories, reflections, discoveries, triumphs and disasters relating to this most alluring and mysterious and visceral of art forms. And because you'll be privy to conversations among great pals with a mutual passion, this is more akin to drinking at the Dress Circle Bar with some of the finest theatre artists of a generation than waiting for their autographs on a chilly rainswept backstreet in the depths of night.

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Alan Cumming (Act I)

Stage Door Jonny

48 minutes 40 seconds

1 year ago

Alan Cumming (Act I)

Welcome to Season 4 of SDJ and who better to kick it off with than Olivier award winner, two time Tony award winner, BAFTA winner and the man who just won his second Emmy award for hosting The Traitors US- Scottish icon, national treasure, the Dionysus of 21st century theatre, the eternally youthful Alan Cumming. In Act 1 of their two part chat, Alan and Jonny have a frank, funny and freewheeling conversation that ranges over the power of saying yes, what The Traitors has taught him about acting (and why its like being double-jointed), his problem with the Method and the best piece of acting advice he’s ever received. They talk about bravery, the influence of Alan’s childhood, how his one man dance piece about Robert Burns in his fifties nearly ruined him, his fascination with portraying mental illness onstage - and giving people permission to dislike you.

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