Podcast appearances and mentions of David Greig

Welcome back to the 209th episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. With the theatres on a come back we offer a mix of both reviews of live shows we've seen and continued reviews of prophet productions! For our 209th episode we bring you a Duet Review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, book by David Greig, directed by Thom Allison, and presented by Young People's Theatre (YPT). Join Jillian Robinson and Mackenzie Horner as they discuss the multitudes of theatre magic, the local impact of a contemporary adaptation, and the timeless beauty of pure imagination. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is playing at YPT (165 Front St E, Toronto, ON) until December 30, 2024. Tickets can be purchased from the following link: https://tickets.youngpeoplestheatre.org/TheatreManager/1/login&event=866 This review contains SPOILERS for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It will begin with a general non-spoiler review until the {12:16} mark, followed by a more in-depth/anything goes/spoiler-rich discussion. If you intend to see the production, we recommend you stop watching after that point, or at least proceed at your own risk. Follow our panelists: Jillian Robinson - Instagram @jillian.robinson96 Mackenzie Horner (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: BeforetheDownbeat Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAu Follow Cup of Hemlock Theatre on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: @cohtheatre If you'd like us to review your upcoming show in Toronto, please send press invites/inquiries to coh.theatre.MM@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cup-of-hemlock-theatre/support

Towards the end of its summer season, Pitlochry Festival Theatre will present the world première of a new play by Peter Arnott, Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape, set in a Perthshire country house during the Scottish Independence referendum of 2014, directed by David Greig in a co-production with Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre. The main character Rennie is played by John Michie, best-known as DI Robbie Ross in TV's Taggart, and his friend Moon is played by fellow Scottish actor Benny Young. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to John and Benny while the production was in rehearsal about the play and the continuing relevance of its subject matter, as well as about rehearsing and performing in Pitlochry. The play will be performed at Pitlochry Festival Theatre from 25 August to 28 September 2023. It will then transfer to the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh from 4 to 14 October.

Teddy Hinde is currently starring as Mike Teavee in the first ever UK and Ireland tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.Based on the novel by Roald Dahl, Charlie and Chocolate Factory has a book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Mark Shaiman and Scott Wittman. This new production is directed by James Brining and designed by Simon Higlett.Having graduated from Trinity Laban in 2022, Teddy made his professional debut in Anyone Can Whistle by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents at the Southwark Playhouse.Teddy is trans and proudly speaks up for trans rights whilst calling for better representation for trans people in theatre. In this episode, Teddy discusses landing the role of Mike Teavee and his path in theatre so far, as well as all things transness and queerness.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is touring the UK and Ireland until January 2024, including a run at the New Wimbledon Theatre 21st June - 1st July.  Visit www.charlieandthechocolatefactory.co.uk for info and tickets. Hosted by Andrew Tomlins  @AndrewTomlins32  Thanks for listening! Email: andrew@westendframe.co.uk Visit westendframe.co.uk for more info about our podcasts.  

This week: drama! What is drama, and how do you make it happen? Also – what impact could AI have on theatre? Send us your updates and questions: info@oldfirestation.org.ukShow notes:The Art Newspaper article on the photo award: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/04/18/the-camera-never-lies-creator-of-ai-image-rejects-prestigious-photo-awardThe Stage article on AI in theatre: https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/editors-view-what-impact-will-artificial-intelligence-have-on-theatreNPR on Clarkesworld closing submissions: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/24/1159286436/ai-chatbot-chatgpt-magazine-clarkesworld-artificial-intelligencedebbie tucker green: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_tucker_greenTony Kushner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_KushnerDavid Grieg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Greig_(dramatist)John McGrath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McGrath_(playwright)Support the Old Fire Station: https://oldfirestation.org.uk/support-us/Transcript available here: https://oldfirestation.org.uk/our-work/how-to-write-a-play/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Greig is a leading Scottish playwright and Artistic Director of Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. In 2016, he adapted The Suppliant Women, the only fully extant play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, and is now adapting the other two plays in the trilogy, even though only fragments of the originals still exist, the first of which, The Egyptians, opens at Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury, Kent at the end of February 2023. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to David about the fascinating process or reconstructing these ancient works, staging them in a way that gives a modern audiences a similar experience to those who watched them 2,500 years ago rather than as museum pieces and his views on Scottish theatre. The Egyptians will have an initial run at Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury from 22 to 25 February 2023. Macbeth (an undoing) by Zinnie Harris, after Shakespeare, runs at Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, also until 25 February.

durée : 01:57:05 - Fictions / Théâtre et Cie - Dans la suite qu'il invente à Macbeth, David Greig interroge les enjeux géopolitiques contemporains et l'héritage patriarcal dont nos sociétés sont pétries.

durée : 01:57:05 - Fictions / Théâtre et Cie - Dans la suite qu'il invente à Macbeth, David Greig interroge les enjeux géopolitiques contemporains et l'héritage patriarcal dont nos sociétés sont pétries.

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Masters of Horror and Suspense Peter Straub (1993-2022), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded april 4, 1993 while on tour for his novel, “The Throat,” third in a thematic trilogy that included “Koko” and “Mystery.” Peter Straub, who died on September 4th, 2022 at the age of 79, was a master of horror and supernatural fiction whose work erased any distinction between genre and the literary world. Among his best known novels were Ghost Story, Shadowland, Floating Dragon, The Hellfire Club, and his collaboration with Stephen King, The Talisman.   He was also a poet and short fiction author. Three years after the interview, Peter Straub's novel The Hellfire Club was published to great acclaim, followed in 2001, with Black House, a sequel to The Talisman, written with Stephen King, and four later novels, the last one, A Dark Matter, published in 2010. A third book in The Talisman series was announced, but never written. A television series based on The Talisman for Netflix and created by The Duffer Brothers of Stranger Things fame, was announced in 2021 and is apparently still on track. Complete 39-minute interview. Digitized, remastered and edited by Richard Wolinsky in September, 2022. This interview has not seen the light of day in nearly thirty years.   Stephen King, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Lawrence Davidson, while on tour for The Dead Zone, recorded September 8, 1979 at Dark Carnival Bookstore in Berkeley. At the time of this recording, Stephen King had only written a handful of books — Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining and the Stand preceding The Dead Zone. There were also two novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, which was still a secret at the time. Since then, Stephen King has become a literary institution with over 300 credits for television and film adaptations at IMDb. He also has 64 novels, 11 collections of stories, and 5 non-fiction books. This interview was transcribed and can be found in both Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King, edited by Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller, and Stephen King and Clive Barker: Macabre II, edited by James Van Hise. Photo: Stephen King during the era of the interview. Photo by Marty Reichenthal/AP/Shutterstock.   Review: “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” at BroadwaySF's Orpheum Theater through November 6, 2022.     Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Most in-person events still require proof of full vaccination for all audience members over 12 and masks. Many venues will require proof of boosters. Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination status requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. All times Pacific Standard Time. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival  Highlights from this year's Festival, May 7-8, 2022. Book Passage.  Monthly Calendar. Mix of on-line and in-store events. Books Inc.  Mix of on-line and in-store events. The Booksmith.   Monthly Calendar. On-line events only. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months. Kepler's Books  On-line Refresh the Page program listings. Live Theater Companies Actor's Reading Collective (ARC).  See website for past streams. Alter Theatre. Upcoming: Snag by Tara Moses, filmed. American Conservatory Theatre Passengers by Shana Carroll, September 15 – October 9, 2022, Geary Theater. Aurora Theatre This Much I Know by Jonathan Spector, Sept 2 – Oct. 2, 2022. Awesome Theatre Company. Now streaming on the website: The Jersey Devil Play, Holy Sh*t That Was Scary: The Cloud; and previous productions. Berkeley Rep Goddess, conceived by Saheem Ali, August 14 – October 1, 2022. Roda Theatre. The Ripple, The Wave That Carried Me Home by Christina Anderson, September 9 – October 16, 2022, Peets Theatre. Boxcar Theatre. Nude Noir, Palace Theatre (home of Speakeasy) Oct. 14-15. See website for other listings. Brava Theatre Center: See website for events. BroadwaySF: Moulin Rouge! The Musical,  through November 6, 2022, Orpheum. To Kill A Mockingbird, through October 9, 2022, Golden Gate. Hadestown returns September 12-17, 2023 at the Orpheum. Broadway San Jose: Cats, September 20-25. The Book of Mormon, Nov. 22-27, 2022 California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes)  Lear by Marcus Gardley, September 7 – October 2, 2022. Center Rep: Always Patsy Cline by Ted Swindley, Lesher Center, Walnut Creek, September 9 – 25, 2022. Central Works The Museum Annex by Mildred Inez Lewis, Oct. 15 – Nov. 13, 2022. Cinnabar Theatre. Misery, based on the novel by Stephen King, October 14-30, 2022. Contra Costa Civic Theatre Camelot, small cast version, September 9 – October 9. Curran Theater: An Evening with Nigella Lawson, November 14, 2022. Custom Made Theatre. Zac and Siah, or Jesus in a Body Bag by Jeffrey Lo, Sept 23 – Oct. 16, 2022. Phoenix Theatrre, 414 Mason St., San Francisco. 42nd Street Moon. Cate Hayman, live at the Gateway, Sept. 30, 7:30 pm. Golden Thread  The Language of Wild Berries by Nagmeh Samini, October 14 – November 6, 2022. Potrero Stage. Landmark Musical Theater. The Addams Family, October 22 – November 20, 2022. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. See website for upcoming shows. Magic Theatre. Campo Santo presents Otto Frank, written and performed by Roger Guenver Smith, return engagement, September 29 – October 1. See website for other events and performances. Marin Theatre Company Dunsinane by David Greig, September 22 – October 16. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Upcoming Events Page. New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) Aunt Jack by Nora Brigid Monahan,  September 16 – October 16, 2022. Oakland Theater Project. The Crucible by Arthur Miller, September 2-25, 2022. Pear Theater. In Theater: Bull in a China Shop/Collective Rage, in repertory, September 9 to October 2, 2022. PianoFight. Calendar of shows. PlayGround. Breed or Bust by Joyful Raven, Potretro Stage, show runs September 9 – 24, 2022. Presidio Theatre. New live performance/theatre venue kicks off in September. See website for calendar details. Ray of Light: Kinky Boots, September 21 – October 8, 2022. Sept. 14-19 shows cancelled. San Francisco Playhouse.  Indecent by Paula Vogel, September 22 – November 5, 2022. SFBATCO See website for upcoming streaming and in- theater shows. San Jose Stage Company: The Play That Goes Wrong, Sept. 21 – October 16, 2022. Shotgun Players. Man of God by Anna Ouyang Moench, September 3 – October 2, 2022. South Bay Musical Theatre: Stephen Sondheim's Company, September 24 – October 15, 2022. The Breath Project. Streaming archive. The Marsh: Calendar listings for Berkeley, San Francisco and Marshstream. Theatre Rhino  Bad Hombres by Guillermo Reyes, October 6-30. 2022, 4229 18th SF in the Castro. Streaming: Essential Services Project, conceived and performed by John Fisher, all weekly performances now available on demand. New live performances by John Fisher every Thursday at Theatre Rhino, September 15, 8:00 pm: Spencer. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Little Shop of Horrors, November 30 – December 24, Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto. Word for Word. Live reading: Two stories by Haruki Murakami, October 3, 7 pm. Z Below. Misc. Listings: BAM/PFA: On View calendar for BAM/PFA. Berkeley Symphony: See website for listings. Chamber Music San Francisco: Calendar, 2023 Season, starting February. Dance Mission Theatre. On stage events calendar. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Calendar listings and upcoming shows. San Francisco Opera. Calendar listings. San Francisco Symphony. Calendar listings. Playbill List of Streaming Theatre: Updated weekly, this is probably the best list you'll find of national and international streaming plays and musicals. Each week has its own webpage, so scroll down. National Theatrical Streaming: Upcoming plays from around the country. Filmed Live Musicals: Searchable database of all filmed live musicals, podcast, blog. 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Both journalist Charlotte Higgins and playwright David Greig are fascinated by the Roman occupation of Britain. Higgins's book Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, an account of her travels to the Roman remains scattered about Britain, is really about how we today relate to Roman Britain. It seems an unlikely subject for a play but Greig has adapted it for the stage and they both talk to Samira Ahmed about the project. Did the Romans bring civilisation to these islands? Were they violent imperialists? Did British history really begin once they had left? And what of the society that was here already when the Romans arrived? Front Row celebrates the life of author and illustrator Raymond Briggs who has died aged 88. He became famous for his books The Snowman, Father Christmas, Fungus The Bogeyman and his parable of nuclear war When The Wind Blows – all of which were also made into films or TV programmes. American documentary maker Immy Humes has spent the last five years mining the archives for photographs of lone women in majority male environments, from 1862 to the present day, for her book The Only Woman. And British art historian Aindrea Emelife has also been mining the archives, searching for images of black women from 1793 to the present, for her exhibition Black Venus at the Fotografiska Gallery in New York. They join Samira to discuss issues of representation, tokenism and the female gaze in visual culture, past and present. BAFTA-winning writer and director Stefan Golaszewski talks to Samira about his upcoming BBC One Drama, Marriage, starring Sean Bean and Nicola Walker as a couple navigating the ups and downs of a 30-year relationship. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Julian May Image: Shirley Chisholm, Politician, New York, New York, USA, 1972. Credit: Getty Images / Bettmann/ Phaidon

David Greig runs a mixed farming operation near Tottenham, where he works alongside his wife Melissa and their two children. David is passionate about the Merino industry and has spent the last ten years choosing rams with above-average sheep breeding values for fat, muscle, good growth rates, and other desirable traits such as breech cover and breech wrinkle. In this episode, David explains how he's seen their lambing percentages double through the selection of superior rams with desired traits. You'll also hear David's journey and connection to ag, as well as his plans for the future. Plus, an insight into why he's comfortable with less commonly preferred traits, such as smaller-framed ewes. Local Land Services Senior Natural Resource Officer, Jasmine Wells, caught up with David in between jobs on the farm at Tottenham for a cuppa and this chat. Connect: Central West LLS website Central West LLS on Facebook Central West LLS on Twitter Central West LLS on YouTube The views contained in this podcast series are not necessarily endorsed by Central West Local Land Services. Listeners are advised to contact their local office to discuss their individual situation. This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

For this month's episode Liz and John have hit the road, well the M6, and taken a trip to Coventry to visit the Criterion Theatre, an amateur theatre in the Earlsdon area of the city which has a proud history of producing theatrical entertainment for over 65 years. We'll be interviewing Anne-Marie Greene, the Artistic Director of the Criterion, to find out about her life and loves in amateur theatre. We'll also be going behind the scenes at the Criterion to find out more about its unique building and its forthcoming production of Midsummer by David Greig & Gordon McIntyre.

About the Guest Randy Redd made his Broadway debut in PARADE at Lincoln Center directed by Harold Prince. Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include MAY WE ALL, Max Vernon's THE VIEW UPSTAIRS, ALLEGRO at Classic Stage Company directed by John Doyle, Alain Boublil's MANHATTAN PARISIENNE directed by Graciela Daniele, and PUMP BOYS & DINETTES at City Center Encores. Other credits include MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, RING OF FIRE directed by Richard Maltby, Jr., Randy Newman's FAUST, THE BURNT PART BOYS, Terrence McNally's SOME MEN, the American premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's BY JEEVES directed by Alan Ayckbourn, David Greig's MIDSUMMER, LUCKY STIFF, ONE MAN BAND with James Lecesne, and SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN. Film and TV credits include https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1HQ5OP9E8c (“Beautiful Creatures”) and “The Last 5 Years” directed by Richard LaGravenese, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJjmpO8k9m0 (“After The Storm”) directed by Hilla Medalia, "Kinsey" directed by Bill Condon, “From Broadway With Love” (PBS), “All-American New Years” (FOX), "The Wright Verdicts", Good Morning America, the Today Show, the Tony Awards, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with Wynonna Judd, and Show Biz After Hours with Frank DiLella, a monthly variety show at Birdland. He has worked as an actor, writer, musician, and director at Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Center Theater, Classic Stage Company, Tectonic Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Naked Angels, Second Stage, New York Musical Theater Festival, The Kennedy Center, Goodspeed, Geffen Playhouse, Primary Stages, York Theater, Emelin Theater, City Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, New Stage Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, Charlotte Repertory Theater, the Flat Rock Playhouse, the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Stamford Center For The Arts, the Arden Theater, New World Stages, the Cape Playhouse, the Actor's Playhouse, and more. Recordings: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/showfolk/id305047066 (SHOWFOLK) with Tony Award-winner Rachel Bay Jones, Robin Skye's https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/robin-skye/id383949971 (HOUSE OF LOVE), LUCKY STIFF, NEO, Jason Robert Brown's WEARING SOMEONE ELSE'S CLOTHES and the Original Cast Recordings of PARADE, RING OF FIRE, THE BURNT PART BOYS and THE VIEW UPSTAIRS. In concert: Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Symphony Space, Cooper Union, St. John the Divine, Feinstein's, Ars Nova, Birdland and Joe's Pub. Links North Carolina Theatre http://www.randy-redd.com/ (Randy Redd's Website) Connect with Us Facebook @beltlinetbroadway Twitter @beltlinetobway Instagram @beltlinetobroadway

São dois adolescentes em fuga. Ela, Leila, é uma garota introvertida apaixonada por revistas de celebridades, ele o mais morto dos rapazes, sem qualquer saída, numa cidade sem saída. E é uma balada, a balada de Lee e Leila. Assim se descreve a peça “Lua Amarela”, de David Greig e levada à cena pelos Artistas Unidos. Conversámos com o actor e encenador Pedro Carraca, que dirige o espectáculo.RecursosArtistas UnidosMr Bird  (autor da música)Nicolás Fabian (autor do design)Subscreve no SpotifySubscreve na Apple PodcastsSubscreve no Google PodcastsSe quiseres apoiar o Coffeepaste, para continuarmos a fazer mais e melhor por ti e pela comunidade, vê como aqui.

Earlier this week, we did an interview about California approving the largest 'animal freeway' in the world. Principal Environmental specialist for Waka Kotahi, David Greig, talks to Jesse about our local animal passageways.

Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by David Rodigan, David Greig, Nadine Shah and Jack Guinness for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Elli De Mon and NNAMDÏ.

A conversation with Professor Ros Steen. Professor Ros Steen FRCS. MA. DSD. IPA.Ros Steen has worked as a Voice specialist for Theatre, Film and TV for over thirty five years with more than two hundred and fifty credits to her name including work for, among many others, the National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival, Citizens' Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Royal Lyceum, Dundee Rep and Leeds Playhouse. She is an Emeritus Professor of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she led the Centre for Voice in Performance establishing Nadine George Voice Work, with its emphasis on the unique connection between an individual and their voice, as the core spoken technique in the training of actors and performers. One of the first accredited teachers of the technique she has spent many years pioneering its use as a medium of professional rehearsal practice. She was the first Visiting Scholar to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University where she worked with the multi-award winning director John Tiffany. Landmark productions include Alan Cumming's Macbeth (UK and Broadway) and BlackWatch (National Theatre of Scotland) as well as the premières of plays by David Harrower, David Greig, Linda Mclean, Rona Munro and Nicola McCartney, among others. In 2019 she gave a joint presentation with writer A.L.Kennedy to the Akademie de Kunst in Berlin on the connection between the voice work and writing. Since leaving RCS she has continued to work on productions in and outside Scotland as well as giving master classes and workshops nationally and internationally for a variety of creative practitioners. She is the Editor of Growing Voices: Nadine George Technique – the Evolution of its Influence in Training and Performance and has published several research papers about her work. She is currently a director of Voice Studio International and an Associate Editor of the International Dialects of English Archive.    Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EKHEKXBAZBQG6¤cy_code=GBP)

This week we talk with Joshua Moore & Lawson from the upcoming production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Phoenix Ensemble about which of life's lessons can be learned from this chocolate confection of a musical!BOOK TICKETS TO THE SHOW: https://phoenixensemble.com.au/portfolio-items/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory/Don’t expect a sugar rush from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the new musical that opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Sunday. This latest adaptation of Roald Dahl’s winningly sinister children’s story from 1964 is — thank heaven — no sweeter than the two film adaptations it inspired, starring Gene Wilder (1971) and Johnny Depp (2005).Then again, this big but tentative show — which features a book by David Greig and songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman — doesn’t burst with flavor of any kind, at least not during its exposition-crammed first act. Only in its second half does the show acquire a distinct taste, and it definitely isn’t confectionary. - By Ben Brantleyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_(musical)https://www.mtishows.com.au/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factoryhttp://charliethemusicalshop.com.au/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factoryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Greig_(dramatist)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Shaimanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_WittmanLike us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon!Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.comVisit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.comOur theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Day for Night with Caridad Svich, a series that looks at the intersection between theatre & poetry in the edgelands. Episode 20: excerpt from Upon the Fragile Shore by Caridad Svich (Published by Intellect Books in The Hour of All Things and Other Plays), and an excerpt from The Events by David Greig (published by Faber & Faber). Listener support is appreciated. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/caridad-svich/support

The dykes and ditches of some scrubby forest in the west Perthshire hamlet of Inchtuthill are all there is of the uncompleted Roman capital of the North. Imperial politics and a sudden reversal of fortune led to the legionaries clearing out almost overnight in the late first century AD. It's a mystery that captivated the Scottish playwright David Greig. Join us as we discuss the essence of his new play “Adventures with the Painted People”, its rapid evolution for radio, and the next steps for Scottish theatre in time of Covid.

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson continues his weekly live performances from the empty Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, as Front Row’s Lockdown Artist in Residence. Tonight Víkingur plays his own transcription of J.S Bach’s cantata Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54. David Greig talks about his new play Adventures With The Painted People - a first century romcom between a Pict and a Roman - which was to have opened Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s summer season, and has now been adapted for Radio 3, as part of the BBC's Culture in Quarantine project. For our Friday review, we watch El Presidente- a new Amazon Prime comedy drama about the FIFA corruption scandal, scripted by Birdman writer Armando Bó. And Lily King’s novel Writers and Lovers comes with accolades from Elizabeth Strout and Tessa Hadley. What will critics Carl Anka and Alex Clark make of its consideration of grief, love, writing... and waitressing? Following the death of George Floyd there’s been a dramatic increase in sales of books which help explain structural racism. Knights Of - a small publisher specialising in titles tackling prejudice - was facing financial crisis due to the Coronavirus, but now a crowdfunding appeal to help publishers like them has smashed its £100 000 target. Knights Of’s co-founder, Aimee Felone, on publishing during the pandemic and the Inclusive Indies fundraising campaign. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Timothy Prosser

Continuing his weekly live performances as Front Row’s Lockdown Artist in Residence, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson performs live from the empty Harpa concert hall in Reykjavik. Tonight Víkingur will play The Arts and the Hours by Rameau, an interlude from the 18th Century French composer’s final opera, Les Boreades. George The Poet is a London-born spoken word performer of Ugandan heritage. His podcast 'Have You Heard George’s Podcast?' has won armfuls of awards and his work as a recording artist and a social commentator has now been recognised at the Visionary Honours Awards for championing diversity and inclusion in the arts, entertainment and showbiz. Elizabeth Newman, director of the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, is directing David Greig's new play Adventures of the Painted People remotely, the actors all separately isolated. Towards the end of the first week she tells John Wilson how the work is going. She explains too the unique situation of her theatre, in a small community in the Scottish Highlands, its financial predicament and how through imaginative creative initiatives it is continuing its role. Professor John Mullan is celebrating the merits of reading, or re-reading, the novels of Jane Austen during lockdown. Today, the title that’s many people’s favourite, thanks not least to countless adaptations: Pride and Prejudice. Presenter John Wilson Producer Jerome Weatherald Studio Manager Tim Heffer

Scottish playwright David Greig was first “cracked open” to Dylan when he heard Desire in a remote part of South Africa “under the influence of the most extraordinarily strong dope”. “That's it”, he thought, “I'M GOING IN!” He has yet to come out.David wrote his version of Euripides' The Bacchae by playing the Hard Rain album over and over while drinking red wine and channelling “Dylan as Dionysius, Dylan as shaman”. Quotes that leap out of this most Scottish of episodes: “Bob Dylan couldn't exist except for Edinburgh”, “I secretly love the glorious oddness of his bad rhymes” and his favourite bit of advice from Bob: “an artist should always be in the state of becoming” (from Scorsese's No Direction Home). Other names lightly dropped include Kris Kristofferson, Robert Burns and David's recent collaborator Mark Knopfler. Join us for a special episode that's as warming as a wee dram.David Greig is Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. His many plays and adaptations, staged in Scotland, London and around the world, include: Europe, Tintin In Tibet, Caligula, The American Pilot, The Bacchae, Midsummer, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Lanark, The Lorax, Touching The Void and this summer's Old Vic production of Local Hero.TrailerTwitterSpotify playlistListeners: please subscribe and/or leave a review and a rating.Twitter @isitrollingpodRecorded 6th February 2020This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

Scottish playwright David Greig was first “cracked open” to Dylan when he heard Desire in a remote part of South Africa “under the influence of the most extraordinarily strong dope”. “That's it”, he thought, “I'M GOING IN!” He has yet to come out.David wrote his version of Euripides' The Bacchae by playing the Hard Rain album over and over while drinking red wine and channelling “Dylan as Dionysius, Dylan as shaman”. Quotes that leap out of this most Scottish of episodes: “Bob Dylan couldn't exist except for Edinburgh”, “I secretly love the glorious oddness of his bad rhymes” and his favourite bit of advice from Bob: “an artist should always be in the state of becoming” (from Scorsese's No Direction Home). Other names lightly dropped include Kris Kristofferson, Robert Burns and David's recent collaborator Mark Knopfler. Join us for a special episode that's as warming as a wee dram.David Greig is Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. His many plays and adaptations, staged in Scotland, London and around the world, include: Europe, Tintin In Tibet, Caligula, The American Pilot, The Bacchae, Midsummer, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Lanark, The Lorax, Touching The Void and this summer's Old Vic production of Local Hero.TrailerTwitterEpisode playlist on AppleEpisode playlist on SpotifyListeners: please subscribe and/or leave a review and a rating.Twitter @isitrollingpodRecorded 6th February 2020This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

Scottish playwright David Greig was first “cracked open” to Dylan when he heard Desire in a remote part of South Africa “under the influence of the most extraordinarily strong dope”. “That’s it”, he thought, “I’M GOING IN!” He has yet to come out. David wrote his version of Euripides’ The Bacchae by playing the Hard Rain album over and over while drinking red wine and channelling “Dylan as Dionysius, Dylan as shaman”. Quotes that leap out of this most Scottish of episodes: “Bob Dylan couldn’t exist except for Edinburgh”, “I secretly love the glorious oddness of his bad rhymes” and his favourite bit of advice from Bob: “an artist should always be in the state of becoming” (from Scorsese’s No Direction Home). Other names lightly dropped include Kris Kristofferson, Robert Burns and David’s recent collaborator Mark Knopfler. Join us for a special episode that’s as warming as a wee dram. David Greig is Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. His many plays and adaptations, staged in Scotland, London and around the world, include: Europe, Tintin In Tibet, Caligula, The American Pilot, The Bacchae, Midsummer, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Lanark, The Lorax, Touching The Void and this summer’s Old Vic production of Local Hero. Trailer Twitter Spotify playlist Listeners: please subscribe and/or leave a review and a rating. Twitter @isitrollingpod Recorded 6th February 2020 This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

Scottish playwright David Greig was first “cracked open” to Dylan when he heard Desire in a remote part of South Africa “under the influence of the most extraordinarily strong dope”. “That’s it”, he thought, “I’M GOING IN!” He has yet to come out. David wrote his version of Euripides’ The Bacchae by playing the Hard Rain album over and over while drinking red wine and channelling “Dylan as Dionysius, Dylan as shaman”. Quotes that leap out of this most Scottish of episodes: “Bob Dylan couldn’t exist except for Edinburgh”, “I secretly love the glorious oddness of his bad rhymes” and his favourite bit of advice from Bob: “an artist should always be in the state of becoming” (from Scorsese’s No Direction Home). Other names lightly dropped include Kris Kristofferson, Robert Burns and David’s recent collaborator Mark Knopfler. Join us for a special episode that’s as warming as a wee dram. David Greig is Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. His many plays and adaptations, staged in Scotland, London and around the world, include: Europe, Tintin In Tibet, Caligula, The American Pilot, The Bacchae, Midsummer, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Lanark, The Lorax, Touching The Void and this summer’s Old Vic production of Local Hero. Trailer Twitter Spotify playlist Listeners: please subscribe and/or leave a review and a rating. Twitter @isitrollingpod Recorded 6th February 2020 This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Perthshire, Scotland announced its summer rep season for 2020 in December. In 2018, Elizabeth Newman joined the theatre as Artistic Director from the Octagon Theatre in Bolton. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Elizabeth in January about the new season and about how she had developed the theatre’s programme over the last eighteen months, as well as how she had coped with settling in an unfamiliar region after ten years in Bolton. The summer season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre runs from 22 May to 3 October 2020. (Photo: Elizabeth Newman and David Greig)

Released in 1982, this soft-rock anthem has become an unlikely viral smash-hit. Africa by Toto is a song that has changed lives, helped to raise thousands of pounds for charity and provided an unexpected musical corner-stone in a critically acclaimed play. Telling their personal stories in Soul Music: Ralf Schmidt is the Artistic Director of Ndlovu Youth Choir which is made up of young people from the poorest parts of South Africa. Incredibly, the choir made it to the final of America's Got Talent, one of the biggest entertainment shows in the world. Ralf's exuberant, irresistible and uniquely African arrangement of Toto's Africa was their stand-out performance. (Brief extract of AGT (c) Fremantle USA and Syco Entertainment) Michael Savage (aka DJ Michael Vinyl) of Prime Cuts record shop in Bristol, staged what could be considered a night of torture when he played Africa non-stop for twelve hours at a club. As Mike and Olivia Perry recall, this was to raise money for the Bristol based charity, Temwa, which operates in Malawi. They expected a handful of people to turn up, but the event had worldwide attention and was a huge success. Mike Massé's life was completely changed following his release on YouTube of what many consider to be one of the best Africa cover-versions ever recorded. The main photo is of Mike Massé (photo credit: Jim Mimna). David Greig is the Artistic Director of the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh; an esteemed playwright with intellectual clout. So, why did he include Africa in one of his plays? Well, he nearly didn't, but then he saw the light. And, Abigail Gardner, a reader in music at the University of Gloucestershire, explains why Africa - originally a US No. 1 for just a week in 1982 - has recently undergone a strange modern rebirth, making it one of the most streamed songs on the internet. Please scroll down to the 'Related Links' box to find out more about the interviewees. Producer: Karen Gregor

Having been staged in Edinburgh and Melbourne, David Greig's adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s 'Solaris' is now at the Hammersmith Lyric Theatre in London. The TLS's Arts editor Lucy Dallas asks him about returning to this strange story of contact, consciousness and how to avoid using "fremulators" on stage See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the Nobel in Literature and the Booker Prize break the rules, split opinion, and (probably) boost sales of a few books, a bunch of TLS editors share their thoughts on the whole endeavour of prize-giving (Michael: "you may as well throw a stone..."); Alexander van Tulleken considers 'War Doctor: Surgery on the front line', David Nott's tales from the operating tables, and floors, of war-torn places; as his stage adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s 'Solaris' comes to London, David Greig, the artistic director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, talks to the TLS's arts editor Lucy Dallas See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this special mini episode of West of Broadway, Will and Lara talk with Noah Weisberg who is currently staring as Willy Wonka in the National Tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Now playing at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts til Sunday June 9th. Based on the classic Roald Dahl novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien, with music by Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Grammy and Tony Award winners Scott Wittman and Shaiman, a book by David Greig, and choreography by Tony Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Joshua Bergasse. The production includes additional songs by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley from the 1971 Warner Bros. motion picture. The show tells the story of Willy Wonka, world-famous inventor of the Everlasting Gobstopper, who has just made an astonishing announcement. His marvelous — and mysterious — factory is opening its gates...to a lucky few. That includes young Charlie Bucket, whose life definitely needs sweetening. He and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a mesmerizing, life-changing journey through Wonka's world of pure imagination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En aquesta edició del programa hem entrevistat les actrius Blanca Garcia-Lladó i Berta Pipó, que juntament amb Clara Manyós intèrpreten MONSTER, una obra de David Greig en versió d'Helena Tornero i dirigida per Roberto Romei que ens parla de la Katy, una adolescent de 17 anys, que s'enfronta a una situació límit. Història contada a través del llenguatge teatral i del musical, intimista, molt emotiva, realista i fantàstica alhora. Al Teatre Tantarantana fins el 17 de febrer. Després hem entrevistat Montse Bonet, per parlar sobre la seva segona obra en cartell des de que ha començat l'any: "Deliri a dos" (#Deliriados) d' Eugène Ionesco, que s'estarà representant al Teatre Akadèmia fins el 17 de febrer. Gran feina de la directora, dels actors protagonistes, Ôscar Intente i Montse Puga, i de l'equip artístic al complet per portar Ionesco al públic, donant rellevancia a elements com el seu sentit de l'humor, el seu llenguatge, el seu món i la seva màgia. La Montse també està dirigint #Estimamquetincpressa de Xucrut Teatre, que clou funcions avui a La Badabadoc de Gràcia. Després hem parlat de cinema, concretament dels Premis Gaudí i Premios Goya, ressaltant les millors pel·lícules al nostre parer. També hem parlat de la programació de tres sales que ens estimem: Cinemes Girona, Cinema Maldà i Zumzeig Cinema, on es projecten diverses pel·lícules premiades. #teatre #cinema #interpretació #direccióteatral #cultura #somcultura @OnaCultural @Radioonadesants 94.6 FM

En aquesta edició del programa hem entrevistat les actrius Blanca Garcia-Lladó i Berta Pipó, que juntament amb Clara Manyós intèrpreten MONSTER, una obra de David Greig en versió d'Helena Tornero i dirigida per Roberto Romei que ens parla de la Katy, una adolescent de 17 anys, que s'enfronta a una situació límit. Història contada a través del llenguatge teatral i del musical, intimista, molt emotiva, realista i fantàstica alhora. Al Teatre Tantarantana fins el 17 de febrer. Després hem entrevistat Montse Bonet, per parlar sobre la seva segona obra en cartell des de que ha començat l'any: "Deliri a dos" (#Deliriados) d' Eugène Ionesco, que s'estarà representant al Teatre Akadèmia fins el 17 de febrer. Gran feina de la directora, dels actors protagonistes, Ôscar Intente i Montse Puga, i de l'equip artístic al complet per portar Ionesco al públic, donant rellevancia a elements com el seu sentit de l'humor, el seu llenguatge, el seu món i la seva màgia. La Montse també està dirigint #Estimamquetincpressa de Xucrut Teatre, que clou funcions avui a La Badabadoc de Gràcia. Després hem parlat de cinema, concretament dels Premis Gaudí i Premios Goya, ressaltant les millors pel·lícules al nostre parer. També hem parlat de la programació de tres sales que ens estimem: Cinemes Girona, Cinema Maldà i Zumzeig Cinema, on es projecten diverses pel·lícules premiades. #teatre #cinema #interpretació #direccióteatral #cultura #somcultura @OnaCultural @Radioonadesants 94.6 FM

tonight we have our first special guest David Greig. we discuss War Monkey 3 and tournaments in general. 

En aquesta edició del programa hem entrevistar l'actor Pau Ferran, coprotagonista (juntament amb l'actor Oriol Grau) de #AlSostre de l'autor i actor britànic Nigel Planer (molt conegut aquí pel seu paper de Nil a "Els joves"/"The young ones") , dirigida per Israel Solà (#Fairfly) i traduïda per Francis Humble. Una comèdia sobre dos pintors de frescos del Renaixement, que ens parla sobre l'autoria, la fama, l'atribució d'idees i talent aliens, l'abús laboral, etc. Podeu gaudir-la a Escenari Joan Brossa fins diumenge 3 de febrer i després de gira a Sala Trono (Tarragona), La Planeta (Girona) i Teatre Aurora (Igualada). Tot seguit, hem fet un recorregut per diverses obres que estan en cartell: #ASAPAtrium de La Trama Produccions dirigida per Marc Rosich a Sala Atrium, "Elefant Terrible" d'Eric Balbàs i Roger Torns (autors, direcors, intèrprets i productors de l'obra) i les companyies El Eje i Produït per HIIIT i "Monster" de David Greig, dirigida per Roberto Romei i interpretada per Blanca Garcia-Lladó, Clara Manyós i Berta Pipó (actuant i interpretant musicalment els temes de The Mamzelles) al Teatre Tantarantana, #Estimamquetincpressa de Xucrut Teatre, interpretada per Albert Requena, Ainhoa Roca i Fraggle i dirigida per Montse Bonet a La Badabadoc, i #LHabitaciódelCostat de Sara Ruhl, dirigida per Julio Manrique i amb un gran repartiment a La Villarroel. Hem publicat ressenya d'"Estima'm que tinc pressa" a #culturayalgomás i ben aviat publicarem ressenyes de totes aquestes obres, juntament amb la de #ElBufóndelReyLear, el monòleg de Felipe Cabezas, que gaudeix d'una setmana de pròrroga a Sala Fènix. Després hem parlat de la programació del Zumzeig Cinema fins divendres i dels Premis Gaudí de l'Acadèmia del Cinema Català. #teatre #cinema @OnaCultural @Radioonadesants 94.6 FM #cultura #somcultura #femcultura

En aquesta edició del programa hem entrevistar l'actor Pau Ferran, coprotagonista (juntament amb l'actor Oriol Grau) de #AlSostre de l'autor i actor britànic Nigel Planer (molt conegut aquí pel seu paper de Nil a "Els joves"/"The young ones") , dirigida per Israel Solà (#Fairfly) i traduïda per Francis Humble. Una comèdia sobre dos pintors de frescos del Renaixement, que ens parla sobre l'autoria, la fama, l'atribució d'idees i talent aliens, l'abús laboral, etc. Podeu gaudir-la a Escenari Joan Brossa fins diumenge 3 de febrer i després de gira a Sala Trono (Tarragona), La Planeta (Girona) i Teatre Aurora (Igualada). Tot seguit, hem fet un recorregut per diverses obres que estan en cartell: #ASAPAtrium de La Trama Produccions dirigida per Marc Rosich a Sala Atrium, "Elefant Terrible" d'Eric Balbàs i Roger Torns (autors, direcors, intèrprets i productors de l'obra) i les companyies El Eje i Produït per HIIIT i "Monster" de David Greig, dirigida per Roberto Romei i interpretada per Blanca Garcia-Lladó, Clara Manyós i Berta Pipó (actuant i interpretant musicalment els temes de The Mamzelles) al Teatre Tantarantana, #Estimamquetincpressa de Xucrut Teatre, interpretada per Albert Requena, Ainhoa Roca i Fraggle i dirigida per Montse Bonet a La Badabadoc, i #LHabitaciódelCostat de Sara Ruhl, dirigida per Julio Manrique i amb un gran repartiment a La Villarroel. Hem publicat ressenya d'"Estima'm que tinc pressa" a #culturayalgomás i ben aviat publicarem ressenyes de totes aquestes obres, juntament amb la de #ElBufóndelReyLear, el monòleg de Felipe Cabezas, que gaudeix d'una setmana de pròrroga a Sala Fènix. Després hem parlat de la programació del Zumzeig Cinema fins divendres i dels Premis Gaudí de l'Acadèmia del Cinema Català. #teatre #cinema @OnaCultural @Radioonadesants 94.6 FM #cultura #somcultura #femcultura

We have three Remarkable Women on the show this week! First up is Lisa Parker, Co-Founder of Peace Day Philly. Peace Day Philly, the local initiative for the United Nations International Day of Peace, promotes peace across the region with special events from September 16th  to the 21st. Peace Day Philly invites individuals, organizations, city offices and neighborhoods to participate in this effort through engaging in meaningful peace-related activities in their home, school or community, or by attending a Peace Day Philly program—most are free! For more about Peace Day Philly, go to www.peacedayphilly.org. The full list of 2018 events can be found at http://www.peacedayphilly.org/events/  Lisa is a Philadelphia native and social worker by training who has worked in various social services, anti-bullying, educational, cross-cultural, mental health and public health programs in a number of Philly neighborhoods. She has stewarded PDP from a grassroots initiative in early 2011 through becoming a non-profit organization in late 2013, and serves as President of PDP’s Board. Marla McDermott Marilyn then talks to Marla McDermott, Founder and President of the Walnut Club. The Walnut Club is a premium business and social network for professional, driven women striving for excellence in all facets of their lives. The Walnut Club is hosting A Conversation with Gloria Allred and brunch on Sunday, September 23rd at the Le Meridien Hotel in Center City Philadelphia from 11:00am-3:00pm. Marilyn Russell will moderate the event! This event is open to the public. Limited tickets are still available and can be purchased at WalnutClubEvents.org.  Rounding out the show we have Claire Moyer, a Barrymore Award nominated director - she is one of the area's leading young female directors. She is currently doing something very rare - playing double duty directing two shows at the same time for two different theatre companies. Where does this young woman find the time!? Claire is directing The Philadelphia Artists' Collective production Mary Rose by JM Barrie at Woodlands Mansion and Cemetery. That is on stage now through Sept 22nd. She is also directing Inis Nua Theatre Company's The Monster in the Hall by David Greig from Oct 3 - Oct 21 at the Louis Bluver Theater at the Drake.  Claire received her BA from Drew University, trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and holds an MA in Directing from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also a teaching artist for Philadelphia Young Playwrights.  

Touching The Void. Memoir, documentary, now theatre performance - at the Bristol Old Vic. Written by David Greig , it's an adaptation of Joe Simpson's bestselling 1988 mountaineering memoir and the subsequent 2003 docu-drama detailing Simpson's disastrous 1985 attempt to make a first ascent of a mountain in the Andes. Theatre director Tom Morris talks to Kirsty about the challenges of transferring the story to the stage. And as the Bristol Old Vic prepares to re-open after a major refurbishment, he describes how the new design aims to mark the theatre's history and slave trade past and welcome in new audiences.Crazy Rich Asians is a box office hit in the US about a young Chinese-American woman who goes to a wedding in Singapore and encounters the fabulously wealthy Chinese family of her boyfriend. Its star Constance Wu talks to Kirsty about the issues it raises on the difference between Asian and American culture and the tricky question of stereotyping.Crazy Rich Asians is based on a best-selling book Kevin Kwan of the same name satirizing Singapore's super-rich. Depictions of the wealthy in novels is nothing new as literary critic Toby Lichtig explains as he gives is a potted history of rich-lit.As this year's Leeds International Piano Competition reaches the finals without a British finalist, concert pianist Murray McLachlan, Chair of the European Piano Teachers Association (UK) and Artistic Director of Chetham's International Summer School and Festival for Pianists, discusses whether British piano teaching is making the grade.

This brand new episode features our guest, David Greig. One of the most prolific playwrights in Scotland, David has written contemporary plays, adapted classics, and even turned his hand to writing the book of a modern musical. Join us as we discuss his writing technique, how he deals with criticism and praise, and his work... View Article The post David Greig appeared first on Putting it Together.

In this edition of Innovating Business we highlight Tarus Products Inc. CEO, David Greig, talks with host Luke Bonner about the business his father built from the ground up, providing clients with American made machines, new innovations, and company culture.

Susannah Martin, in conversation with KPFA associate theater critic C.S. Soong. Susannah Martin directs “The Events,” a play by David Greig presented by Shotgun Players at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley through June 4. In “The Events,” Claire, the surviving leader of a community choir, tries to understand why the gunman (“The Boy”) went on a shooting rampage. The Ashby Stage is located at 1901 Ashby Avenue in Berkeley. Shotgun Players website Susannah Martin's website The post Interview: Susannah Martin about “The Events,” at Shotgun Players appeared first on KPFA.

As dramas about John Knox and Galileo open at theatres in Edinburgh and London, Philip Dodd talks to Fiona Shaw and Mark Ravenhill about performing and staging Brecht and to Edinburgh Lyceum director David Greig. He's also joined by 2017 New Generation Thinker Joanne Paul, from the University of Sussex, who researches the idea of parrhesia or 'speaking truth to power'. And satirist Nev Fountain and stand-up comedian Simon Evans discuss whether comedy is still an effective weapon with which to attack the powerful.Bertold Brecht's Life of Galileo directed by Joe Wright in a translation by John Willlett runs at the Young Vic Theatre in London from May 6th - July 1st. Glory on Earth runs at the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh from May 20th to June 10th. Written by Linda McLean the drama is directed by David Greig and stars Jamie Sives. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with academics to turn their research into radio and television. You can find more broadcasts and films on the Free Thinking website. Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Maria Tryti Vennerød har etablert seg som en av landets fremste dramatikere. I mars kommer hun til Dramatikkens hus for å prate om sitt forhold til den britiske forfatteren, dramatikeren og regissøren, Harold Pinter. Pinter er sannsynligvis en av de mest innflytelsesrike engelskspråklige dramatikere i etterkrigstiden. Han har skrevet om lag tretti skuespill, tjue filmmanuskripter, og har vært ansvarlig for oppsetningen av ca. 30 teaterstykker. Blant de mest kjente stykkene er The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), Old Times (1971) og Betrayal (1978). Flere av stykkene er omarbeidet til film av forfatteren, som også har skrevet flere film- og tv-manus av andre forfatteres romaner. I tillegg regisserte han skuespill, både andre forfatteres og fra egen produksjon. Maria Tryti Vennerød fikk sitt gjennombrudd med Ibsenprisen for ”Dama i Luka” og vant en svensk-norsk dramakonkurranse med stykket ”Frank”. Hun har etablert seg som en av landets fremste dramatikere, med blant annet ”Neverland” på Det Norske Teatret høsten 2010. Stykkene hennes har blitt fremført på blant annet Det Norske Teatret i Oslo, på Schaubühne i Berlin, Theatre for the New City i New York, Nationaltheatret i Budapest og La Colinne i Paris. I 2016 var hun bidragsyter til Det Norske Teatret sin storproduksjon om andre verdskrig, sammen med verdenskjente dramatikere som David Greig og Lukas Bärfuss. Foto: Anna- Julia Granberg/ Cappelen Damm forlag

Can a Shaman cure writer's block? David Greig goes on a very personal quest in an attempt to find out. David Greig is one of our most respected and successful playwrights. He's also the Artistic Director of the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. But he is suffering from writer's block; he is 'exhausted, like a mined out mine'. He's tried many a cure, without success, and now he wants to visit a Shaman to see if there is a solution to be found somewhere in the spirit world. As quests go, it's slightly odd, sometimes light-hearted but serious in parts... Producer: Karen Gregor.

What does it take to be a successful runner of extreme distance and why do people do it? David Greig is the Artistic Director of the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh and an internationally successful playwright. He's also an ultra-marathon runner who has twice completed the punishing 96 mile West Highland Way as well as many other long-distance races. He took up running fifteen years ago when he stopped smoking and running has since become an endorphin-fuelled obsession. For One to One, David is speaking to two fellow runners. Today he meets former world hill running champion, Angela Mudge. Born with birth defects that affected her feet, Angela spent the first two and half years of life almost continually with her lower legs and feet in plaster. Despite this, she went onto be a hugely successful long-distance runner. Her most memorable race was when she became the first woman to break three hours when she won the Sierre-Zinal - 'the race of the 4000m peaks'. But why do they do it? Producer: Karen Gregor.

What does it take to be a successful runner of extreme distance, and why do people do it? David Greig is the Artistic Director of the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh and an internationally successful playwright. He's also an ultra-marathon runner who has twice completed the punishing 96 mile West Highland Way amongst many other long-distance races. He took up running fifteen years ago when he stopped smoking and running has since become an endorphin-fuelled obsession. For One to One, David speaks to two fellow runners. Today, he meets Ben Smith who - at the time of their conversation - was attempting to set a world record by running 401 marathons on 401 consecutive days. Following a difficult childhood and a challenging time during his 20s, Ben discovered running and it became a form of confidence building and healing. Out of this new sense of confidence, Ben decided to set himself an outlandish challenge, and the 401 was the result. Producer: Karen Gregor.

Natalie Haynes and David Greig join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books.

We are joined by Bjorn Ihler who is a peace activist, writer and filmmaker working against dogmatism, particularly  in the forms of racism, hatred and violent extremism. His work is greatly founded on his experiences as a survivor of the attack on Utoya island in Norway in 2011. He's written numerous articles for national and international newspapers and has been an inspiration to many activists through participation in conferences and organisations such as the Oslo Freedom Forum, Against Violent Extremism and the Forgiveness Project. Bjorn has a degree in Theatre and Performance Design and Technology from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Art In 2013, he collaborated in the writing of the play ‘The Events' by David Greig, an account of a surivivor resembling the Utoya attack and he's is currently producing the film ‘Rough Cut – Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity'. 

The latest Prosecast takes you inside the National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Dunsinane being presented through February 21 at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. The discussion explores the play through the lens of Macbeth, Scottish history and through a conversation with the Prosecast’s first international guest: playwright David Greig. Recorded at […]

A conversation with playwrights David Edgar, April de Angelis and David Greig discussing their working methods and what is (or isn’t) unique about their work. This conversation was filmed on 4th February 2015. Most people assume that the individual writer brings something particular to the playwriting process, but is that true? What do playwrights actually get up to at their desks? Do they plan, or is it all instinct? What does feeling something "works" or is "right" actually mean? What do they feel is essentially “them” about their work: the subject matter, the form or the voice?

Knowing Your Characters. Matthew Sweet talks to playwright David Greig and actor Siobhan Redmond about their approaches to drama. How much do you have to know about the characters and the story before you begin? How has theatre contributed to the recent discussions about Scottish identity? This event was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage, Gateshead on 01.11.14.

David Greig's daring new play The Events opens at Number One First Street tonight. The show features a different local Manchester choir for every night of the run. The Manchester Lesbian & Gay Chorus is one of those choirs - so we popped into rehearsals to get a little taster... #TheEvents #Theatre #HOMEmcr #SiteSpecific

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights and theatremakers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse. In this episode, Emma speaks to David Greig. Traverse Associate Artist, David Greig has been on the Scottish theatre scene since 1993 when Stalinland was produced by the Citizen's Theatre and he received his first professional commissions from The Traverse Theatre and The Royal Court. He has written many plays, most of which have premiered in Scotland. From 2005 to 2007 he was the first Dramaturg of The National Theatre of Scotland. Since his first main stage production Europe at the Traverse Theatre in 1996, his work has been produced extensively abroad. His plays have been translated and produced in most of the countries of Europe, the USA and Canada, Brazil, Australia, Japan and Korea. David Greig has produced around 50 plays, texts, adaptations, translations and libretti in the first two decades of his career. He has produced adaptations of Tintin in Tibet (2005) for the Barbican, London and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013) for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Other recent plays include The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (2011) and The Events (2013). This year, he co-curated the National Theatre of Scotland's The Great Yes, No, Don't Know Five Minute Theatre Show with the late David MacLennan. Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

Floating In A Most Peculiar Way The London Scots With Stephen Greenhorn, Rona Munro, David Greig, Linda McLean, David Morgan, Adam Ramsay and Lach.

Suffragette City Women and Independence With Tasmina Sheikh, Kate Higgins, Elaine C Smith, David Greig, Kirstin Innes, Tracey S Rosenberg and Laura Eaton-Lewis. Three of the most prominent female voices in the Yes Campaign – Tasmina Sheikh, Kate Higgins and Elaine C Smith – join us for a frank discussion of the frustrations of being … Continue reading Wed 20 Aug 2014 – Women and Scottish Independence →

In Her Frock Coat and Bibbety Bobbety Hat Sunday Session With Rachel Newton, David Greig, Luke Wright, Amy Geddes, Camille O'Sullivan and Adie Elias Baako.

A Godawful Small Affair Exploring Tory Scotland With Ewan Morrison, David Torrance, Alex Massie, David Greig, Jenny Lindsay, Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai).

Dancing With The Big Boys Negotiations After Yes With Jim Sillars, David Greig, Fiona Ferguson, Peter Arnott, Andrew Tickell, Kevin Cadwallendar, Lady Alba, Josephine Sillars.

My Brain Hurts A Lot Money and Wages in an Independent Scotland With Ricky Ross, Nicola McCartney, Ian Fraser, Ben Dyson (of Positive Money), Agnes Torok, Julia Taudevin, Laura Eaton-Lewis, David Greig.

Lady Stardust In The Eye of The Storm With Nicola Sturgeon, David Greig, John Carnochan, Tracey Rosenberg, Dan Bye, Whyte and Mackay (Daily Reckless)

HOME Manchester, the new arts organisation formed from the merger between the Library Theatre Company and Cornerhouse Cinema, is filling the time before the opening of its new, purpose-built home in spring 2015 with a series of site-specific productions around the city. The first of these, Angel Meadow, is a collaboration with Dublin-based ANU Productions that looks at the Irish communities in Ancoats who settled there in the late nineteenth century. In this episode, some of the team from ANU talk about the process of creating and performing this devised, site-specific piece and some of the difficulties it has posed. First, we spoke to actors Thomas Reilly and Lloyd Cooney, and then to director Louise Lowe with performers Dee Burke, Will Irvine and Úna Kavanagh. Angel Meadow from ANU Productions will be produced by HOME Manchester in Ancoats with performances from Tuesday 10 to Sunday 29 June 2014. For more information on this and the other site-specific productions in this HOME season—Romeo and Juliet at Victoria Baths and David Greig’s The Events in the office building Number One First Street—see the HOME Manchester web site. (Rehearsal photo by the show's lighting designer Ciaran Bagnall.)

Marco Pautasso uno dei curatori di Salone Off Torino - Rossella Bianchi parla del suo libro In via del Campo nascono i fiori al microfono di Alessandra Fava - Roberto Rustioni regista di Being Norwegian di David Greig in scena a Milano - Gianluca Gobbi dal Salone del Libro di Torino - Ira Rubini dalla presentazione del nuovo Cartellone del Piccolo Teatro di Milano

Marco Pautasso uno dei curatori di Salone Off Torino - Rossella Bianchi parla del suo libro In via del Campo nascono i fiori al microfono di Alessandra Fava - Roberto Rustioni regista di Being Norwegian di David Greig in scena a Milano - Gianluca Gobbi dal Salone del Libro di Torino - Ira Rubini dalla presentazione del nuovo Cartellone del Piccolo Teatro di Milano (seconda parte)

Marco Pautasso uno dei curatori di Salone Off Torino - Rossella Bianchi parla del suo libro In via del Campo nascono i fiori al microfono di Alessandra Fava - Roberto Rustioni regista di Being Norwegian di David Greig in scena a Milano - Gianluca Gobbi dal Salone del Libro di Torino - Ira Rubini dalla presentazione del nuovo Cartellone del Piccolo Teatro di Milano (seconda parte)

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse. In this very special episode, Hamish speaks to Emma Callander, the newly appointed Associate Director of the Traverse. Emma is a freelance director and Co-Artistic Director of Theatre Uncut. She was resident at the National Theatre of Scotland 2009/10 through the Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme. She has developed and directed a number of plays for A Play, A Pie and A Pint in Glasgow including Dalgety by David Greig, Supply by Cathy Forde and most recently, The Queen of Lucky People by Iain Heggie, which was performed at the Traverse Theatre in April 2014. She has regularly directed new plays for the Bristol Old Vic and Tobacco Factory Theatre. Following its sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival 2013, her most recent production Banksy: The Room In the Elephant by Tom Wainwright played at the Arcola in London then toured nationally throughout Spring 2014. *Warning this episode does contain language which may not be suitable for children* Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

Pod Academy's Daniel Marc Janes speaks to playwright and academic Dan Rebellato, Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway and one of Britain’s leading theatrical commentators. Daniel Marc Janes: I’m in the Calder Theatre Bookshop in London. It couldn’t be better located to evoke Britain’s theatrical heritage, situated as it is on The Cut alongside the Old Vic and the Young Vic. Looking at the bookshop’s selection, I can see plays from some of the most distinguished British playwrights of recent years. Here’s David Greig... Sarah Kane... Dennis Kelly... Mark Ravenhill. What all these writers have in common is that they all studied drama at the university level. But drama at the university is a recent innovation. Many of Britain’s most brilliant playwrights have been autodidacts: Tom Stoppard, George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare. So why study drama? I’m in the downstairs rehearsal space of the Calder Theatre Bookshop. This is a place where writers and performers go to make plays come alive. But how far can the inscrutable, mysterious act of playwriting be taught in an academic environment? What is the role of drama in the university? To talk about these topics, I’m joined by Dan Rebellato, Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, author of numerous stage and radio plays and of several books, most notably 1956 And All That: The Making of Modern British Theatre. Professor Rebellato, thank you for joining us. Dan Rebellato: Thanks very much. DMJ: So before we start to unpack the broader questions, I’m wondering whether you could outline for us a kind of potted history of drama as an academic discipline in the British university. DR: There are lots of examples, of course, of theatre being made in universities and that goes back centuries, but drama as an academic discipline really starts in the late 1940s at the University of Bristol. Oxford University, during the war, set up a commission to see if drama was a suitable subject for the universities and it was a very ramshackle affair. They booked the wrong flights and they lost their luggage and they ended up with half the amount of time they were supposed to have. And they recommended that you shouldn’t do drama at the university. But the University of Bristol decided that it was a good subject and that was the first degree – I think that started in about 1947, 1948, something like that – and the big waves of expansion followed from there. Manchester, Hull was quite early, but the 1970s had a lot of expansion and the 1990s saw another big wave of expansion as well. DMJ: But what’s interesting is that drama, as an academic course outside of English, took some time to be accepted. Even at Bristol it took them 21 years for drama to be a full honours degree. You mentioned the committee at Oxford; Oxford and Cambridge stopped short of having full honours drama courses. Where do you think that this lack of acceptance comes from? DR: A lot of things that I think are interesting about the theatre are the reasons why it can sometimes be a difficult subject in the academy. Because it’s neither purely literary, nor is it purely a live experience. It’s a kind of mixture of the two. I think that in academic terms – of course there are certain kinds of theatre that are, in a sense, purely live and also purely literary – but also I think there’s a sense in which theatre is clearly a collection of different crafts and skills, because you have scenic designers and you have actors and you have directors and you have writers and composers and so on and so on. That maps on in the academy into the fact that it’s a very interdisciplinary subject. So in order to fully – if you could ever fully understand theatre – you’d have to be a bit of a linguist, a bit of a philosopher, a bit of a psychologist, a bit of an archaeologist and so on and so on and so on. And the question is left: if you took those things away,

Scotland Inspired is an ambitious exploration of the arts in Scotland through a strand of 26 radio programmes. In those, a range of artists gives 15-minute 'personal journeys' that illustrate their inspiration and the lineage of their artform. Introduced by actress, Ashley Jensen the series presents an informed but personal overview of the development of the arts in Scotland, from the Scottish Enlightenment to the present day. The 15-minute 'journeys' provide individual snapshots from a broad range of practising painters, writers, musicians and filmmakers which will evolve into a comprehensive tapestry of creativity that demonstrates how relevant the arts are to life in Scotland in the 21st century. In this, the twelfth in the series, we hear from playwright, David Greig.

The Traverse Theatre's Writers Podcast recorded over the course of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011. Hosted by the Traverse's Literary Officer Jennifer Williams, this is the second of three interviews with well known playwrights whose work is featured in this year's programme. In this edition Jennifer talks to David Greig the author of The Monster in The Hall and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

A-ha and Heat magazine meet mountains, deer and a yellow moon in David Greig's modern Bonnie and Clyde tale. With live music. 'Irresistible' (Bristol Playgroup). **** (Venue Magazine). ThreeWeeks Award 2010, Edges. Category: Theatre Genres: contemporary, music Group: In Short Productions Venue: C venues - C soco Event Website: www.yellowmooninedinburgh.blogspot.com Date: 5-29 August Time: 19:00 Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes Suitability: 14+ Country of Origin: England

A breathtaking 2007 event with Palestinian human rights lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh. He here launches his new book Palestinian Walks in which he crosses his land on foot; conflicts and history revealed in the beautiful and battered landscapes. Chaired by David Greig.