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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · 16d

“Any group of strangers can become a choir.”
Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe on the community that comes together in the theatre in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’.
Duncan and Jonny join me to talk about their brilliant play in our latest episode.
‘Every Brilliant Thing’ is @sohoplace until 8 November.

The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · May 29

“They’re gambling with their happiness.”
Director Matthew Dunster on the men putting it on the line in Patrick Marber’s Dealer’s Choice in our new episode: www.theplaypodcast.com/096-dealers-...
And you can still catch the cracking production @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social

096 - Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber - The Play Podcast

Matthew Dunster, the director of 'Dealer's Choice' at the Donmar Warehouse, joins me to explore Patrick Marber's play.

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · May 12

The core themes of conformity and group think in Ionesco’s absurdist satire, ‘Rhinoceros’, remain as frighteningly relevant as ever.
Omar Elerian, who directed the play at the Almeida, joins me to explore Ionesco’s classic.
www.theplaypodcast.com/095-rhinocer...
📷 Sopé Dirisu by Andy Gotts

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Apr 8

‘Oedipus and the Sphinx’ by Ingres.
What was the riddle that Oedipus solved? Answer is in the Footnotes to our latest episode on Sophocles’ tragedy.
Become a patron to access all Footnotes at www.patreon.com/theplaypodcast
Listen free now to the full episode: www.theplaypodcast.com/094-oedipus-...

The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Apr 3

Keep going Edith!

The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you!

The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Mar 29

“As for marrying your mother, you’re not the first to have dreamed that dream.” Sigmund Freud was struck by this line when he saw a production of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King in France.
@edithmayhall.bsky.social explores Sophocles’ tragedy in our new episode: www.theplaypodcast.com/094-oedipus-...

The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Mar 27

“No one has ever invented a better plot than the detective looking for the murderer, and all along it is himself.” @edithmayhall.bsky.social on Sophocles’ seminal thriller, Oedipus, in our new episode: www.theplaypodcast.com/094-oedipus-...
📷 Manuel Harlan @oldvictheatre.bsky.social

094 - Oedipus the King by Sophocles - The Play Podcast

In this episode Professor Edith Hall joins me to explore Sophocles's great tragedy, 'Oedipus the King'.

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Mar 14

“It’s one of the best two-handed scenes ever written.”
Rory Mullarkey on Tuzenbach taking his leave of Irina in Three Sisters.
Listen now to our latest episode on the play, wherever you get your podcasts or at www.theplaypodcast.com/093-three-si...
📷 Johan Persson

#chekhov
#threesisters

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Mar 11

“Chekhov is interested in the vanishing point where comedy and tragedy are the same thing.” Playwright Rory Mullarkey on Three Sisters in our latest episode: www.theplaypodcast.com/093-three-si...
📷 by Johan Persson at the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

093 - Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov - The Play Podcast

In this episode we explore Anton Chekhov's symphonic study of the search for purpose and love, 'Three Sisters'.

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Feb 11

“Never before…had so much of the truth of black people’s lives been seen on stage.”
James Baldwin on Lorraine Hansberry’s play ‘A Raisin in the Sun’.

Director Tinuke Craig talks about the play in our new episode.
📷 by Ikin Yum @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social
www.theplaypodcast.com/092-a-raisin...

092 - A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry - The Play Podcast

In this episode we explore Lorraine Hansberry's landmark family drama of personal dreams and public prejudice, 'A Raisin in the Sun'.

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Jan 31

“Perhaps if I had not been so tormented myself it would have been less authentic.” Tennessee Williams on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
This and much more in the Footnotes to our episode on the play: www.patreon.com/theplaypodcast to join.
Listen to @arifa.bsky.social in our deep dive into the play.

A podcast that explores the greatest new and classic plays.

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Arifa @arifa.bsky.social · Jan 28

Here's me speaking to @theplaypodcast.bsky.social which takes a deep dive into a single play per episode. I discovered it last year & am now making my way through its entire back catalogue (Max Webster, on the previous ep is great on Oscar Wilde). Listen here:
www.theplaypodcast.com/091-cat-on-a...

091 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams - The Play Podcast

In this episode we explore Tennessee Williams's blistering drama of family conflict and repressed sexuality, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'.

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Jan 28

“The victory of a cat on a hot tin roof is just staying on I guess, as long as she can.”
Maggie hangs on in her marriage and in the succession battle.
Arifa Akbar joins me to review the domestic carnage in Williams’s play:

www.theplaypodcast.com/091-cat-on-a...

📷 Marc Brenner

091 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams - The Play Podcast

In this episode we explore Tennessee Williams's blistering drama of family conflict and repressed sexuality, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'.

www.theplaypodcast.com

The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Jan 8

“The play is about the importance of being yourself”.
Director Max Webster on Wilde’s serious comedy in our latest episode:

www.theplaypodcast.com/090-the-impo...

Ncuti Gatwa
@nationaltheatre.org.uk
📷 Marc Brenner

#oscarwilde
#theimportanceofbeingearnest

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Jan 7

“They’re all live streaming their lives on Insta!”
Director Max Webster on the performative lives of the modern characters in The Importance of Being Earnest @nationaltheatre.org.uk in our latest episode about Wilde’s enduring classic.
www.theplaypodcast.com/090-the-impo...
📷 Marc Brenner

090 - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - The Play Podcast

In this episode we explore Oscar Wilde's classic 'The Importance of Being Earnest' with director Max Webster, whose joyous production is at the National Theatre.

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Dec 31

Top shows of 2024- 10, December: Rebecca Frecknall’s striking rendition of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof @almeida.co.uk
Fabulous performances by Daisy Edgar-Jones as the cat, and especially Kingsley Ben-Adir, whose slow decline into profound drunkenness is utterly devastating.

📷 Photo @marcsbrenner

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Dec 31

Top shows of 2024 - 9, December: Max Webster’s joyous production of The Importance of Being Earnest @nationaltheatre.org.uk
I suspect Oscar Wilde would have loved it.

📷 @marcsbrenner.bsky.social

#oscarwilde
#theimportanceofbeingearnest

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Dec 31

Top shows of 2024 - 8, November: The Forsyte Saga at the Park theatre.
An impressively economic adaptation of Galsworthy’s aristocratic melodrama, inventively staged by Josh Roche, with a first rate cast in multiple roles. Riveting stuff.

#theforsytesaga
#galsworthy
#johngalsworthy

The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Dec 30

Top shows of 2024 - 7, November: Robert Icke’s modern adaptation of Oedipus. Even if we knew what was coming, the tension was terrible as we counted down to the awful denouement. Lesley Manville and Mark Strong were excellent, as always.

📷 Manuel Harlan

#oedipus
#sophocles

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Dec 30

Top shows of 2024 - 6, October: Lorraine Hansberry’s ground breaking play A Raisin in the Sun, in a lucid and moving production at the Lyric Hammersmith, directed by Tinuke Craig. The racism is still shocking, but the power of their dreams lifts the heart.

📷 Ikin Yum

The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Dec 30

Top shows of 2024- 5, September: Samuel Beckett’s confounding, funny, timeless, inexhaustibly thought-provoking Waiting for Godot at the Haymarket, directed by the inimitable James Macdonald.

Check out our episode on the play with Matt McFrederick.
📷 Marc Brenner

The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Dec 28

Top shows of 2024 - 4, May: People, Places & Things. Duncan Macmillan’s unflinching portrait of addiction with an electrifying performance by Denise Gough. Directed by Jeremy Herrin, who came back to talk about the play with Duncan Macmillan.

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Dec 28

Top shows of 2024 - 3, April: Long Day’s Journey into Night. It was a privilege to see Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson in O’Neill’s autobiographical masterpiece, and to talk with director Jeremy Herrin on the podcast. 📷 Johan Persson.

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The Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · Dec 24

Top shows of 2024 - #2 February: The Hills of California. Jez Butterworth weaves more theatrical magic, with two fabulous performances by Laura Donnelly.

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