Lets Write a Film – EP2 – Badgers
A new podcast in which two writers attempt to develop a film in real time, with no preparation. Featuring Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal. Download: ...
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Reading plays is like a book group, but for plays. Each episode features an in depth discussion of a new or classic modern play. Each week we do a close reading of a play, discussing it’s merits, themes, issues raised, and so on. You can play along by reading or watching a production of the play before you listen to the show. Join Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal for a light hearted but in depth discussion of theatre, from classic French farce, to post modern drama.
Lets Write a Film
A new podcast in which two writers attempt to develop a film in real time, with no preparation. Featuring Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal. Download: ...
Love & Money – Reading Plays – Episode 16
Love and Money is a little known play from 2006, an early work by Dennis Kelly, the London Irish television writer who would go on to create controver...
The Miss Firecracker Contest – Reading Plays – Episode 15
A satire of the Southern potboiler in the form of a beauty pageant, The Miss Firecracker Contest was first performed at a tiny LA theatre in 1980. Lat...
The Cripple of Inishmaan – Episode 14 – Reading Plays
Martin McDonagh’s 1996 play ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ is the first in a loosely defined and as yet unfinished Aran Island Trilogy. Set on the most ba...
The Piano Lesson – Episode 13 – Reading Plays
A family history entwined with the legacy of slavery. Black urban poverty in 1930’s Pittsburg. Criminality and working class aspirations. Intersection...
Some Girl(s) – Episode 12 – Reading Plays
Some peanuts are eaten, some water bottles empties, some hotel rooms vandalised. Outside of that Neil LaButes ‘Some Girls’ is a less than action packe...
Picasso at the Lapin Agile – Episode 11 – Reading Plays
His autobiography boasts that Steve Martin began working at age ten in the newly opened Disneyland, graduating to study poetry and philosophy and spen...
Disco Pigs – Episode 10 – Reading Plays
Arriving at the end of the nineteen nineties, at exactly the time Martin McDonagh was exploding the Irish national theatre with the first of his Leena...
The Bald Soprano – Episode 9 – Reading Plays
Quantum Physics, synchronicity, English mustachios, it has to be Eugene Ionesco’s ‘The Bald Soprano’ (La Cantatrice Chauve). This is a play for which ...