Podcasts about Paines Plough

In this 2013 podcast, Jennifer Williams talks to poet, playwright and recording artist Kate Tempest* about hip hop, poetry, their play Brand New Ancients, mythology, world peace and much more. Kate has written plays for Paines Plough and the Battersea Arts Centre, written poetry for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Channel 4 and the BBC, worked in schools and won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2012, for Brand New Ancients.  *In 2020 the musician and poet formerly named Kate Tempest changed their name to Kae Tempest, and announced they are non-binary. In the announcement on Instagram, Tempest said they were changing the pronouns they use, from she and her to they and them. Image © Melanie Flash

Spooky Season is back. We have a week of brilliant audio drama coming your way. Today is The Revival by Corinne Sailsbury Voice Actors: Alex – Fergus John McCann Iona – Elaine Stirrat Corinne Sailsbury Corinne Salisbury is an Edinburgh-based playwright. She's had plays produced at the Traverse Theatre and the Scottish Storytelling Centre (both commissioned by Strange Town for their youth theatre groups); and digital commissions from Paines Plough and from the National Theatre of Scotland/BBC for the SCENES FOR SURVIVAL series. She's a past Playwrights Studio Scotland New Playwrights Award winner, and was longlisted for the Channel4 New Writers Scheme 2024 and nominated for the Adopt a Playwright Award 2024. She's had development processes supported by Playwrights' Studio Scotland, National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Creative Scotland and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. Her work has been performed at venues including Hampstead Theatre, Theatre503, the Spiegeltent, Southwark Playhouse, Live Theatre Newcastle, Camden People's Theatre, the Yard Theatre, the Old Vic Theatre, New York's Public Theater, the Tron, the Traverse, the CCA, Leith Depot, the Village pub and the Hidden Door Festival. Her play GIRLBOSS is published in Routledge's anthology ‘Short Plays with Great Roles for Women' The Revival A ghost hunter and property developer meet in an abandoned theatre to communicate with the voices of the past. What could possibly go wrong. OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk HIPA GUIDES: HIPA GUIDES Equity Toolkit: Link Stellar Quines: Link Persistent Pal & Nasty Hero - Pals and Hero Membership Email – persistentandnasty@gmail.com Instagram - @persistentandnasty Twitter - @PersistentNasty Coffee Morning Eventbrite - Coffee Morning Tickets LINKTREE - LINKTR.EE Resources Samaritans - Rape Crisis Scotland - Rape Crisis UK ArtsMinds - BAPAM Freelancers Make Theatre Work Stonewall UK - Trevor Project - Mermaids UK Switchboard LGBT+ - GATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD DONATE - DONATE ABORTION SUPPORT NETWORK UK - ASN.COM- DONATE

David Peace on his new novel, Munichs, about the plane crash that transformed Manchester United. Katie Posner, Co-Artistic Director of Paines Plough theatre company and Daniel Evans, Co-Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company discuss the new plays crisis in theatre. Matt Hemley, Deputy Editor of The Stage, reports on the cancellation of a new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Artist and author Edmund De Waal, chair of judges for the Booker Prize 2024, reflects on this year's shortlist. Manish Chauhan on his shortlisted story, Pieces, for this year's National Short Story Award.Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Today Elaine chats with playwright Maureen Lennon about her new show Dead Girls Rising, the importance of regional theatre, the power to art and artist have to ask the difficult questions and much more. Ticket details for Dead Girls Raising: https://www.silentuproarproductions.co.uk/coming-soon Maureen Lennon Maureen is a Hull based writer, a graduate from the English and Theatre Studies BA from The University of Bristol and the Writing for Performance and Publication MA from The University of Leeds. She is an Associate Artist of Middle Child Theatre, a Leeds Playhouse FUSE writer 2019, a BoxFresh Writer 2023 and Sphinx30 playwright. In 2020 her play Helen was shortlisted for the Theatre 503 International Playwriting prize. In 2018/19 she was longlisted for the Alfred Bradley Bursary for Radio Drama. Her credits include Baby He Loves You (Middle Child Theatre 2024), Helen (Theatre 503/ Terrain Theatre 2023), The Coppergate Woman (York Theatre Royal 2022), Us Against Whatever (Middle Child Theatre 2019), and Bare Skin On Briny Waters (Bellow Theatre 2017/18). She has also written work for Paines Plough, Hull Truck Theatre, Sheffield Theatres, and Pilot Theatre. Dead Girls Rising A brand-new production from Hull-based Silent Uproar, Dead Girls Rising is an angry, joyous, punk protest that doesn't pull any punches. Written by Maureen Lennon, with music and lyrics from Anya Pearson (international punk artist featured on BBC Radio 6 Introducing ), Dead Girls Rising is an explosive exploration of what it takes to live and survive within a violent patriarchy. Katie and Hannah love murder. They go to bed listening to podcasts about serial killers; they clutch blankets watching gruesome documentaries. They're in deep. They're not sure if they can stop, and they're not sure if they want to. Dead Girls Rising interrogates themes of true crime, Greek mythology, patriarchy and women's safety, with a furious soundtrack and moments of horror and magic on stage. Co-directed by Silent Uproar's Ruby Clarke and Alex Mitchell, it stars Helen Reuben, Angelina Chudi, Izzy Neish, Zoe West and Rebecca Levy. HIPA GUIDES: HIPA GUIDES OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk Persistent Pal & Nasty Hero - Pals and Hero Membership Support In The Room - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/in-the-room Email – persistentandnasty@gmail.com Instagram - @persistentandnasty Twitter - @PersistentNasty Coffee Morning Eventbrite - Coffee Morning Tickets LINKTREE - LINKTR.EE Resources Samaritans - Rape Crisis Scotland - Rape Crisis UK ArtsMinds - BAPAM Freelancers Make Theatre Work Stonewall UK - Trevor Project - Mermaids UK Switchboard LGBT+ - GATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD DONATE - DONATE ABORTION SUPPORT NETWORK UK - ASN.COM- DONATE WeAudition offer: For 25% off your monthly subscription quote: NASTY25 Backstage Offers: Get a free 12 months Actor Subscription: https://join.backstage.com/persistentnasty-uk-12m-free/

Episode 9: Character, plus BONUS interview with Paines Plough's Katie PosnerThis week we look at how to develop character in your work, and Mike interviews Katie Posner from new writing development company Pains Plough's work.Show notes: Send us your updates and questions: info@oldfirestation.org.uk 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/ Tour the Writer Programme https://painesplough.com/get-involved/tour-the-writer/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cariad talks to Paines Plough artistic director Charlotte Bennett and her seven-year-old niece, Illy joins aswell. They talk about Margot, Charlotte's baby daughter who died just 24 hours after she was born and her mum, who died not long after from pancreatic cancer

From discussions on Tiger Balms to South Asian Theatre, this was a funny and educational episode. The Double Bill that is THE SC SAGA. We need a night of that please Theatres!  With the incredibly talented peeps Dr. Sharmila Chauhan and Satinder Chohan.  In the episode we discuss:  Safeguarding yourself from topics when researching or diving into the world of your play/script as a writer Who do you share the vulnerability of you as a creative with? What outlet do you use to de zone or connect? The idea of success and progression as a creative Thoughts on South Asian Theatre- it's past, present and future.  South Asian Theatre companies such as Tara, Kali, Tamasha and Rifco and new organisations such as Hungama, Diet Paratha and Daytimers Digital Footprint and brand building. The Authenticity and representation of your play to be reflected in the cast and the creative team  POC Dramaturgy and support for writers 3 things this industry could do with and without What do you feel like you lack or can work on in your storytelling and what is your Beacon of light. Something you know you do extremely well and no one ever will come close to that.  If you know what you know now about the industry would you have entered it or worked the way you did up until now.  What was your biggest expectation from your career. That you have accomplished  and also let go of A bit about Sharmila: Sharmila is a screenwriter, playwright and prose writer: Her work is often a transgressive meditation on love, sex and an exploration of the diasporic experience. She is particularly interested in the intersection of sex, power and gender. She has had two short films produced and written two features: Most recently, her short film Oysters – an exploration of desire in the face of grief – was commissioned by Film London (2016) and her feature Mother Land – is currently being developed by Cinestan International and has been long-listed for the Sundance Writers' Lab. Her plays include: The Husbands (an exploration of polyandry and matriarchy in India) which toured nationally and completed its run at London's Soho theatre (Kali and Pentabus Theatre), Born Again/Purnajanam (Southwark Playhouse (exploring class, religion and female power), Kali Theatre, Jan 2012) and well as 10 Women (body image and women with Bethan Dear, Avignon Festival, France, 2014)). Shortlisted for the Asian New Writer award (2009 and 2012), Sharmila's short stories have been published widely in print and online. She is also currently working on her novel Seven Mirrors. Sharmila also has a degree in pharmacy and a PhD in clinical pharmacology from University College London. She lives in London with her husband, children and cat Tashi. A bit about Satinder: Satinder is a journalist turned playwright who grew up in Southall and graduated with an MA in English from Yale University. Her plays have been produced across the UK including UK tours of ZAMEEN with Kalí Theatre and KABADDI-KABADDI-KABADDI with Pursued By A Bear. She won the 2013 Adopt A Playwright Award to develop her play MADE IN INDIA, which completed a UK tour in 2017 with Tamasha and Belgrade Theatre in association with Pilot Theatre, directed by Katie Posner. The tour received great acclaim including an OffWestEnd award nomination and the Best Production Award at the Eastern Eye Awards. Tamasha also commissioned HALF OF ME, a large cast youth theatre piece, to tour in concert with MADE IN INDIA, which premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in July 2016. In 2018 she co-adapted GULLIVER'S TRAVELS for the Bolton Octagon with Mike Kenny and the following year she wrote an adaptation of the novel GIRL OF INK AND STARS for Spark Arts which toured libraries and continues to be utilised in school's content. Satinder has previously had work presented by The Finborough and Paines Plough for the Vibrant Festival and Come To Where I'm From respectively and she has completed the Emerging Writer's Residency at the Traverse Theatre, won the Kalí Futures Writer Award, took part in the Kudos-Court scheme 2016 and was on attachment at the Hampstead Theatre. Satinder is one of 15 writers chosen to take part in Sphinx 30, a landmark programme for female playwrights launched to mark Sphinx's 30th anniversary, in partnership with Kalí. She is developing further plays, audio content and working on her first novel. Social: Myself: https://www.instagram.com/chaiwithrai_/  Guest: https://twitter.com/sharmilawrites  Links: Myself: https://linktr.ee/chaiwithrai_  Guest: https://sharmilathewriter.com & https://www.berlinassociates.com/clients/satinder-chohan/  Hope you all enjoyed it and Thank you for tuning in. To Subscribe, share, follow my work and everything else is listed above.  

NonCensored is a weekly round up of Harriet Langley-Swindon's very popular, very real daily radio show, completely non-Censored (but with all of the rubbish edited out). This week we bring you a very special LIVE episode of NonCensored, recorded as part of LATER at Paines Plough Roundabout. Harriet and Martin are joined by Diversity Correspondent Eshaan Akbar, who explains why Lawrence Fox is the most woke man alive, and by Culture Secretary For Culture And Digital Media Sport Nadine Dorries, who takes questions from the audience and reads an EXCLUSIVE extract from her forthcoming erotic political thriller His Front Bench Woman. There's also an extended interview with the man who brought down Theresa May, Simon Brodkin who talks pranks, arrests, and how being a character comedian means sometimes people get confused about whether you're real or not.  Thanks to all the staff at Paines Plough and Summerhall for making this recording happen, and to Hamish Campbell at Sound Sound for recording it.  Tickets to our live show at the London Podcast Festival are still available - that's on Saturday 10th September, at 2pm, at King's Place. Book now at https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/noncensored-with-rosie-holt/ If you are going to the Edinburgh Fringe, we recommend shows by Rosie Holt (https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/rosie-holt-the-woman-s-hour), Brendan Murphy (https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/buffy-revamped) and Eshaan Akbar (https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/eshaan-akbar), who will be on tour in 2023 - you can get tickets from https://www.eshaanakbar.com/tour. We'd also recommend Sooz Kempner: PlayStation (2.20pm at the Banshee Labrynth) and Simon Brodkin: Screwed Up (9.40pm at the Pleasance Courtyard). Thanks to Rosie Holt (@RosieIsAHolt), Brendan Murphy (@NotMurphy), Eshaan Akbar (@EShaanAkbar), Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK), Simon Brodkin (@SimonBrodkin) and Ed Morrish. Show photography by Karla Gowlett (photoperspective.co.uk) and show design by Chris Barker (chrisbarkerprints.co.uk). Music and jingles by Paddy Gervers & Rob Sell (torchandcompass.com). This episode was recorded by Hamish Campbell at Sound Sound (soundsound.co.uk) NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production (leadmojo.co.uk). 

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Abi Morgan, author of This Is Not a Pity Memoir. Abi Morgan is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Skinned, Sleeping Around, Splendour (Paines Plough), Tiny Dynamite (Traverse), Tender (Hampstead Theatre), Fugee (National Theatre), 27 (National Theatre of Scotland), Love Song (Frantic Assembly), and The Mistress Contract (Royal Court Theatre). Her television work includes My Fragile Heart, Murder, Sex Traffic, Tsunami—The Aftermath, White Girl, Royal Wedding, Birdsong, The Hour, River and The Split. Her film writing credits include Brick Lane, Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, and Suffragette. She has a number of films currently in development and has won a number of awards, including Baftas and an Emmy for her film and TV work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LegalAliens' Lara Parmiani,  Becka McFadden and Emmanuela Lia, creator of Things I Am Not, sit for a chat with Roxana Silbert, Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre.Roxana is one of very few women born outside the UK who currently hold leadership roles at producing theatres with their own buildings. We discuss how her childhood journey from Argentina to England led her to a career in theatre, why international accents are still taboo on British stages, Brexit, and the challenges of producing innovative, ‘outsider' theatre. Roxana Silbert is the Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre. She has previously served as Artistic Director of Birmingham REP and Artistic Director of Paines Plough. She has been Associate Director at the RSC, Literary Director of the Traverse Theatre, and Associate Director at the Royal Court Theatre.https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/Producing Artistic Director: Lara ParmianiConcept: Emmanuela LiaDirector: Becka McFadden & Lara ParmianiWebsite design: Daiva DominykaSocial media: Catharina ConteOriginal Music: Angelina Rud & Martin BakeroHas this conversation resonated with you? Please send us your responses via www.thingsiamnot.com/responses Over the coming weeks and months, our interactive website will gradually morph into a digital gallery featuring audience responses. You can also reach us via email info@legalaliens.org, on Instagram at @legalalienstheatre or on Twitter and Facebook at @LegalAliensITC 

My guests for this episode are the co-artistic director's of the Paines Plough Theatre Company. They are a nationally touring company who are dedicated to new writing and empowering creatives across the UK. Hope you enjoy!

Mimi is the Chair of the Judges for the Alfred Fagon Award, the Producer for Clean Break, and a Trustee for Theatre Uncut. Companies she's worked with include; Talawa, Fuel, National Theatre, Paines Plough, China Plate Theatre and Creative Access. Twitter: @Mimlish

Welcome to Chippy Lane’s Podcast, series two the PICTURES / LLUNIAU PROJECT. This series celebrates Welsh and Wales-based writers and their stories. This is our Xmas 2020 special, an extract from CARDBOARD DAD by Alan Harris. Donna waits for David, alone in they're flat. Alone, that is, until she gets a special cardboard delivery that turns her world inside out. Alan Harris's bitter-sweet comedy, tells the tale of a woman who realises that second best is never enough.Writer: Alan Harris Plays written for theatres throughout the UK and internationally, including Paines Plough, Manchester Royal Exchange, the Sherman Theatre and National Theatre Wales. He won a Judge's Award at the Bruntswood Prize for How My Light Is Spent. Musicals and opera include the book for The Scythe of Time at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The Left Behind (BBC Studios/BBC3) won the BAFTA for Best Single Drama (and BAFTA Cymru for Best Television Drama). He has also written plays for BBC Radio 4, Radio 3 and Amazon Audible. Director: Hannah Noone Alumni of the Sherman Theatre’s JMK Directors Group (supported by The Carne Trust), Co-Artistic Director of Opera'r Ddraig and an Associate Director for Chippy Lane. Directing credits include: Lung Water - Network Reading (Chippy Lane / NTW / Sherman), TEN/DEG (Sherman Theatre), Elixir of Love (Opera’r Ddraig / Kings Head), Arcadia (RWCMD), Worlds Apart in War (Theatr Clwyd / National Trust), Between Eternity & Time (RWCMD / Sherman Theatre), BoHo (Hijinx / Theatr Clwyd). She has also worked as Assistant Director and Staff Director at the Royal Opera House and The National.Performer: Cecilia Appiah Cecilia is a recent graduate of BA Acting at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama class of 2020. Since graduating she has been working with BBC Radio Drama as part of the radio drama company where she has been working on various plays including The Son, Life is a Radio in the dark and Wasteland all aired on Radio 4 and 3. She has recently filmed an episode for BBC Casualty and participated in the play reading of Gull with the Far Away Plays. Performer: Luke Nunn A 2020 graduate from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Since graduating Luke has been part of the Radio Drama Company at the BBC working on a number of projects including: Keeping the Wolf Out, Life is a Radio in the Dark and Clash. Luke has most recently finished shooting a feature film (The Road Dance) on the Isle of Lewis. Sound Designer: Charlie ForanCharlie is a graduate of the BA (Hons) Stage Management and Technical Theatre Course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. During that time, specialising in live sound engineering, theatrical sound design and recording. Charlie has worked on productions such as An Octoroon at The National and Witness for the Prosecution at County Hall. Alongside these productions, Charlie has worked on podcasts with Unheard Poetry on their Pride and Protest series and on Chippy Lane Productions (Samu(El)egy) and THE STARS IN THE DARKROOM.  Written by Alan Harris Directed by Hannah Noone Performed by Cecilia Appiah featuring Luke NunnSound Design By Charlie ForanProduced & Edited by Chippy Lane Productions Ltd. Music by Grand Tradition  This podcast has been kindly supported by The Carne Trust.

Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. 'Liveness'. Biographies: Katie Mitchell is a British theatre director whose unique style and uncompromising methods have divided both critics and audiences. Though sometimes causing controversy, her productions have been innovative and groundbreaking, and have established her as one of the UK’s leading names in contemporary performance. She was born in Berkshire in 1964, grew up in the small village of Hermitage and read English at Magdalen College, Oxford. She began her theatre career in 1986 with a job at the King’s Head Theatre as a production assistant. She became an assistant director at Paines Plough a year later, and then took the same post at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988. In 1990, she founded her own company, Classics on a Shoestring, where she directed a number of pioneering and highly acclaimed productions including the House of Bernada Alba and Women of Troy. In the decades with followed, Mitchell worked as an associate director with the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Whilst at the RSC, she was responsible for programming at the now defunct black box space, The Other Place, and her production of The Phoenician Women earned her the Evening Standard Award for Best Director. Her numerous theatre credits include 2071 and Night Songs for the Royal Court, The Cherry Orchard for the Young Vic, The Trial of Ubu for Hampstead Theatre, Henry VI Part III (to date her only Shakespeare production) for the RSC and A Woman Killed with Kindness and The Seagull at the National Theatre. She has also directed opera, working with the Royal Opera House and English National Opera. An exponent of Stanislavski techniques and naturalism, her style was strongly influenced by the time she spent working in Eastern Europe early in her career. Her work is characterised by the creation on stage of a highly distinctive environment, the intensity of the emotions portrayed and by the realism of the acting. Mitchell’s work has pushed boundaries and explored technique and, not just confined to the stage, has also taken her into other creative mediums. She has directed for film and television with work including The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd and The Turn of the Screw. In 2011, together with video maker, Leo Warner, Mitchell devised an immersive video installation called Five Truths for the Victoria and Albert Museum which explored the nature of truth in theatrical production. Ben Whishaw is a multi-award winning English actor in film, television, and theatre. He trained at RADA, and his work in theatre quickly brought acclaim including a much-lauded Hamlet at the Old Vic with Trevor Nunn in 2004. He has been directed by Katie Mitchell multiple times, including The Seagull at the National Theatre in 2006, and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy at the Shed in New York last year. In television his work ranges from BAFTA-winning performances in Rupert Goold's Richard II for the BBC in 2012 to A Very English Scandal in 2018. Among many film roles, he is perhaps best known for taking on the part of Q in the Bond films since 2012’s Skyfall and for delighting audiences young and old as the voice of Paddington in the hit movies in 2014 and 2017.

Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. 'Liveness'. Biographies: Katie Mitchell is a British theatre director whose unique style and uncompromising methods have divided both critics and audiences. Though sometimes causing controversy, her productions have been innovative and groundbreaking, and have established her as one of the UK’s leading names in contemporary performance. She was born in Berkshire in 1964, grew up in the small village of Hermitage and read English at Magdalen College, Oxford. She began her theatre career in 1986 with a job at the King’s Head Theatre as a production assistant. She became an assistant director at Paines Plough a year later, and then took the same post at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988. In 1990, she founded her own company, Classics on a Shoestring, where she directed a number of pioneering and highly acclaimed productions including the House of Bernada Alba and Women of Troy. In the decades with followed, Mitchell worked as an associate director with the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Whilst at the RSC, she was responsible for programming at the now defunct black box space, The Other Place, and her production of The Phoenician Women earned her the Evening Standard Award for Best Director. Her numerous theatre credits include 2071 and Night Songs for the Royal Court, The Cherry Orchard for the Young Vic, The Trial of Ubu for Hampstead Theatre, Henry VI Part III (to date her only Shakespeare production) for the RSC and A Woman Killed with Kindness and The Seagull at the National Theatre. She has also directed opera, working with the Royal Opera House and English National Opera. An exponent of Stanislavski techniques and naturalism, her style was strongly influenced by the time she spent working in Eastern Europe early in her career. Her work is characterised by the creation on stage of a highly distinctive environment, the intensity of the emotions portrayed and by the realism of the acting. Mitchell’s work has pushed boundaries and explored technique and, not just confined to the stage, has also taken her into other creative mediums. She has directed for film and television with work including The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd and The Turn of the Screw. In 2011, together with video maker, Leo Warner, Mitchell devised an immersive video installation called Five Truths for the Victoria and Albert Museum which explored the nature of truth in theatrical production. Ben Whishaw is a multi-award winning English actor in film, television, and theatre. He trained at RADA, and his work in theatre quickly brought acclaim including a much-lauded Hamlet at the Old Vic with Trevor Nunn in 2004. He has been directed by Katie Mitchell multiple times, including The Seagull at the National Theatre in 2006, and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy at the Shed in New York last year. In television his work ranges from BAFTA-winning performances in Rupert Goold's Richard II for the BBC in 2012 to A Very English Scandal in 2018. Among many film roles, he is perhaps best known for taking on the part of Q in the Bond films since 2012’s Skyfall and for delighting audiences young and old as the voice of Paddington in the hit movies in 2014 and 2017.

Nirjay Mahindru is joined by Che Walker.Che Walker studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and has worked with Edward Bond, Philip Ridley, Mark Ravenhill, Stellan Skarsgaard, Chris Penn and Robert David Mc Donald.His first play BEEN SO LONG premiered at the Royal Court theatre in 1998, starring Sophie Okonedo, and was runner-up for The John Whiting Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award, and has subsequently been translated and produced worldwide.FLESHWOUND premiered at the Royal Court in 2003 and won the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, and The Arts Council Young Writer of the Future Award.CRAZY LOVE was produced by Paines Plough theatre company ('a brilliant piece of dramatic poetry- the scotsman" 'brilliantly buzzy..poignant'- the guardian) and, along with it's sister piece, BURNT-UP LOVE,  won the Mark Marvin Peter Brook Award.In 2008, his play THE FRONTLINE made English Theatre history ,becoming the first contemporary-set new play to perform at Shakespeare's Globe theatre since MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. An enormous critical success, THE FRONTLINE was revived in 2009.His musical adaptation of his first play 'Been So Long' - a collaboration with composer Arthur Darvill, premiered at The Young Vic Theatre in 2009, before playing The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and Latitude Rock Festival. 'Been So Long' was nominated for the Evening Standard Best Musical Award. Walker's former student, Naana Agyei-Ampadu was also nominated for Best Newcomer for her role as Yvonne in 'Been So Long'.He has received commissions from Regent's Park Theatre, English Touring Theatre  amongst others.  As he teacher, Che has taught acting at RADA, Arts Ed, E15, and has taught at Central, Oxford, Identity Drama School, and was Head of Drama for the Weekend Arts College for over ten years.  This interview was recorded in June 2020 during the period of the lockdown.  Support the show (https://www.interactstrokesupport.org)

Welcome to Chippy Lane’s Podcast, series two the PICTURES / LLUNIAU PROJECT. This series celebrates Welsh and Wales-based writers and their stories. Each episode focuses on a new writer, a personal picture of there’s and a story they want to share with you. So, sit back and enjoy.    SASHAY AWAY Writer: Rhys Warrington Rhys is a writer and actor who grew up in Carmarthenshire is South West Wales and is now based in London. He trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has worked extensively in theatre, both regionally and in the West End since he graduated in 2014. His acting credits include: ‘The Mousetrap’ (St Martin’s Theatre) 'Great Expectations’ (Vaudeville Theatre)  ‘Praxis Makes Perfect’ (NTW). As a writer his debut play BLUE  (★★★★ The Guardian) opened in January 2019 at Chapter Arts Centre. The play was produced by Chippy Lane Productions, a London based theatre company that champions Welsh work in and beyond Wales. Following BLUE Rhys has been working on a film with director Joe Stephenson (Chicken, Mckellen: Playing the Part) about the life of 70s Texan serial killer Dean Corll. Alongside this he has been working on new play ‘Fossils” with director Francesca Goodridge. Rhys is a creative associate of Chippy Lane and is published by Methuen.  Performer: Mari IzzardMari is an Actor/Writer from Bridgend, South Wales who trained at RWCMD. She loves telling stories that are full of heart and impacts social dialogue in some way. Credits include: Brian & Charles for Film4 & BFI, Comedy of Errors at Storyhouse/Grosvenor Open Air Theatre, Wolfie for National Theatre Wales, Lord of the Flies for Sherman Theatre/Theatr Clwyd, Pride & Prejudice for Regents Park Open Air Theatre, A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Gwaith/Cartref for S4C. In 2018 she became the inaugural winner of the Violet Burns Playwright Award and is one of the nominees for The Stage Debut Awards 2020 for Best Writer for her original bilingual play HELA. Director: Izzy Rabey Izzy is a Theatre Director, Applied Drama Facilitator (specialising in adolescent mental health and Autism) and Musician originally from Machynlleth in Mid-Wales. She co-founded Run Amok in 2013 with Jonathan Patton and since then has directed numerous productions for the company including a sell-out tour of 4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane (2014), Flowers of the Dead Red Sea by Ed Thomas (2014) and Hang by debbie tucker green (2017). Assistant Director credits include: Play/Silence (The Other Room Theatre, 2016), On Bear Ridge (National Theatre Wales/The Royal Court, 2019) and All of It by Alistair McDowall (The Royal Court, 2020). Izzy recently directed Wolfie by Ross Willis for National Theatre Wales’ 2020 ‘Network’ project. Izzy has worked on new writing as a director and applied theatre practitioner in association with Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and  Sherman Theatre. She is currently Trainee Director at The Royal Court and an Emerging Director with National Theatre Wales.   A PC  Writer & Performer: Paisley JacksonPaisley Jackson is a Newport Born, London and Wales based actor and writer, graduating from East15 BA Acting, winner of the Laurence Olivier Bursary, Listed by BBC England as a promising writer and represented by Redshaw Management. Paisley’s one woman play Celtic manners, had a two day sold out run at the Tristan Bates Theatre off the West end after winning the John thaw initiative; working class season in association with Actors Awareness, Enabling her to gain attention from various high end production companies in both TV and Theatre. She was Long Listed for the Pint Size Prize Bunker theatre, and reached the top 4% of the BBC England Writers room. Recent Credits Include: Ann Bony and Mary Read /Che Walker, Queens Theatre; Celtic Manners /written and performed by Paisley Jackson, Tristan Bates; Who run the World? /Chippy Lane Production for the Old Red Lion; The Massive /Rebecca Jade Hammond, London Welsh Centre & The Other Room; The Red Fiesta /Alan Harris, The Other Room; ‘COMMA’ TEN/ Kelly Jones, Sherman Theatre. Director: Lisa Diveney Lisa is a Welsh director and was Emerging Director at National Theatre of Wales in 2019. Director credits include Merry F**king Christmas Kids by Kelly Jones (Rapid Write Response,Theatre 503), rehearsed readings include Papatango’s WriteWest, Kath Chandler’s Bird (The Far Away Plays) and a lockdown monologue penned by Rick Allden, starring Andrea Hall, Be Careful What You Show (CompactsUK). Work in development includes plays by Kelly Jones and Michael Currell. Assistant Director credits include Shook (Papatango/Southwark Playhouse), For All I Care (NTW) and The Lucky Spot (RWCMD). She has also assisted on numerous workshops and readings, most recently for Chippy Lane Productions and The Far Away Plays. Lisa has worked extensively as an actor and voice over artist since training at RWCMD.  Produced & Edited by Chippy Lane Productions Ltd. Music by Grand Tradition This podcast is generously supported by The Carne Trust.

This weeks Actor Awareness lockdown Q&A is with The Lowry Theatres producer & programmer Matthew Eames.   We will be discussing how 1 of the biggest regional theatres in the UK is dealing with Covid, how there needs to be more support for emerging producers & if you don't want to be an actor, how to get into the more behind the scenes roles. Alongside the questions you send in to. Matthew is Senior Programmer/Producer at The Lowry in Salford, programming theatre, dance, comedy and circus across all three theatre spaces, leading on the contemporary programme for the organisation. He also produces The Lowry’s biennial cross-art festival – WEEK 53 – commissioning shows such as Nigel Slater’s Toast and Le Gateau Chocolat’s Pandora, and leads on cross-organisational community and audience development projects such as Paines Plough’s Roundabout. Matthew has also worked in artist development and fundraising at The Lowry and remains passionate about supporting artists and theatre-makers at all stages of their career to develop and progress. Matthew trained in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music in London and worked as a freelancer in theatre for 11 years, firstly as a performer in West End and touring musicals and subsequently as a resident/associate director and director. He refocused his career within arts organisations in 2011 taking an MA in Arts Management at Goldsmiths University and joining The Lowry the following year. Matthew is a proud Midlander, hailing from brewery town Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire where he grew up on the same estate as Paddy Considine. He was introduced to theatre thanks to the intervention of an inspiring teacher at his secondary school at the age of 13. He is still going and he hasn’t finished yet.

Ian Marchant talks to people involved in re-imagining the landscape and culture of the Lake District, with lines both sinuous and straight. Lee Schofield of the RSPB has been part of a project to re-meander Swindale Beck, which had become canal-like after years of 'improvement'. Lee is used to the fruits of conservation work taking years, but this time, the results were virtually instantaneous. The team finished work one Friday when it started raining. A flash flood over the weekend brought calls from the onsite supervisor, afraid of disaster: the whole valley was flooded. Lee arrived back on Monday morning to find the river had become a gentle, naturally sinuous stream, with shallow gravel pools for the salmon to use as spawning grounds. The hay meadows on either bank no longer fill with stagnant standing water, and sand and stones don't get washed downstream. Jim Bliss is the Conservation Manager of Lowther Estates and he is just beginning the estate's journey into ecological restoration, taking up fences, and selling the flock of 5000 sheep. Now they have Longhorn cattle, Tamworth pigs and soon, they hope, reintroduced beavers. There are also bees, which Jim hopes will be a measure of the success of the restoration, responding to the increased biodiversity of the flora with a bigger crop of honey. Ian loves trains and so does Cedric Martindale, who is keeping alive a dream he has had for twenty-five years, to restore the Penrith to Keswick Rail Line. Nina Berry is a distinctive new playwright based in Cumbria, inspired by the landscape she grew up in. She's been commissioned by Paines Plough and Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, to write a new play in the series: Come To Where I Am. Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

In this episode, I am so honoured to be talking to the first producer of a little show called Fleabag (which a few of you may have heard about) - the wonderful, modest and honest Francesca Moody. She’s driven, witty, brilliantly creative, and just a joy to speak with. She backed Fleabag early and took it to the Edinburgh Fringe, and cut her teeth working as a producer at Paines Plough.

Temi sits down with poet and playwright, Zia Ahmed, who had his debut play, I Wanna Be Yours, presented by Paines Plough and Tamasha in association with Bush Theatre. Zia chats about his journey as a poet and how it has informed his writing. In this episode, Zia talks candidly about the impact of his writing and how it intertwines with mental health. Zia Ahmed's play, I Wanna Be Yours, will be at the Bush Theatre from 4th December.For more information, follow the link: https://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/event/i-wanna-be-yours/ (https://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/event/i-wanna-be-yours/) Host: Temi Wilkey Producer: Jane Ryan Editor: Kasra FirouzyarPart of the OneFinePlay podcast network

In the first of our Edinburgh special podcasts, we sat down with theatre producer Francesca Moody. Francesca has produced theatre in London, Edinburgh, on tour in the UK and internationally. She is the original producer of the multi-award-winning and Olivier nominated Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which she has presented in Edinburgh, at Soho Theatre on UK tours and internationally in South Korea and Australia and most recently New York for DryWrite.Francesca is also the former Producer of British New-Writing theatre company Paines Plough where she worked on plays by the UK’s leading playwrights including Dennis Kelly, Duncan Macmillan and Kate Tempest. In this episode, we talk about how she chooses her projects, what skills make for a good producer, and tips about taking a show to the Fringe, amongst many other things!  If you have questions you'd like us to answer in an upcoming podcast, drop us an email at questions@spotlight.com or reach out to us on Twitter. 

In this episode from the final week of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for 2019, we hear from the current director of a production that has become, after 28 years, an Edinburgh Fringe and C venues institution, Shakespeare for Breakfast. Damian Sandys has directed the production since 2006, as well as its younger brother, Dickens for Dinner, and he explains what audiences can expect from both, as well as how the shows are devised each year. In a previous BTG podcast episode from the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014, Paines Plough’s artistic director James Grieve told us about the company’s new pop-up theatre, Roundabout. This year, we spoke to director Steph O’Driscoll, who has directed three productions to be performed by the same company of actors in Roundabout this year: Daughterhood by Charley Miles, On the Other Hand, We’re Happy by Daf James and Dexter and Winter’s Detective Agency by Nathan Bryon. Steph explains about the process of creating productions for this unusual performance space for Edinburgh and for a subsequent tour. (Image of Stef O'Driscoll, credit: Rebecca Need-Menear)

In episode 11 all of our Nasty gals have a great conversation with Jemima Levick the Artistic Director Of Stellar Quines Theatre Company The conversation covers everything from Jemima’s beginnings as a director to changing the narrative our young people see on stage and screen with her current production of This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing to what the future holds for all of us. Jemima was previously Artistic Director and Associate Director at Dundee Rep Theatre for seven years until she joined Stellar Quines in May 2016. She trained at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and also on a Scottish Arts Council Director Traineeship. She is an extremely successful director and has won and been nominated for a number of awards. While at Dundee Rep she directed more than 18 productions, including, The Tempest, The Glass Menagerie, The Tempest, Time and the Conway’s, The Elephant Man and Beauty and the Beast. As a freelance director and producer she worked with a number of companies, including the Royal Lyceum Theatre, The National Theatre of Scotland, Perissology Theatre Productions, Borderline, Grid Iron Theatre Company, Traverse Theatre and Paines Plough. You can support Persistent and Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms. On Twitter @weareohsocivil On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience

This episode is with the superb James Grieve, the joint artistic director of Paines Plough. For everything that James mentions, see below:     Paines Plough: https://painesplough.com     Gig Theatre: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/could-playwrights-save-pop-album-rise-gig-theatre/     nabakov: https://www.nabokov-online.com     All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Luke Barnes/James Frewer: https://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/event/all-we-ever-wanted-was-everything/     Luke Barnes: https://www.lukeedwardbarnes.com     Kate Tempest:    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/apr/30/kate-tempest-i-engage-with-all-of-myself     Wasted: http://www.painesplough.com/play/wasted     Come To Where I'm From: http://www.painesplough.com/project/come-where-im     Elinor Cook:     http://theagency.co.uk/the-clients/elinor-cook/     Out of Love: https://www.painesplough.com/play/out-love     Mike Bartlett: http://theagency.co.uk/the-clients/mike-bartlett/     Love, Love, Love: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/may/04/love-love-love-review     Bull: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/feb/13/bull-review     Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan: https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/every-brilliant-thing     The Big Room: https://painesplough.com/project/big-room     Tickets to Pint-Sized: October-Fest are available now - https://www.bunkertheatre.com/whats-on/pint-sized-october-fest. Once you’re on the booking page, type in the code PSPODS18 to get your discounted £8.50 ticket to the show and two workshops of your choice.    If you enjoy the podcast please subscribe, share and give us a rating! We'd also love to hear your feedback so please tweet us here: @Pint_Sized_ or Facebook us here: www.facebook.com/pintsizedtheatre.   Music by Teleman.   Produced by Olly Jacques.

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Luke Barnes is the latest "gig theatre" production from Hull-based theatre company Middle Child. After a run at the Welly Club in Hull in June, the production will be performed at this year's Latitude Festival. BTG editor David Chadderton spoke to Middle Child artistic director Paul Smith about the show, as well as musing on political theatre, adapting for festivals, attracting new audiences to theatre and becoming a new National Portfolio Organisation for Arts Council funding. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything will be at Latitude Festival in Southwold, Suffolk on Sunday 16 July before appearing at Reading Fringe on 20 July and then in Paines Plough’s Roundabout Theatre at Summerhall for the Edinburgh Fringe from 4 to 27 August 2017.

At the Fringe continues to travel the world from the safety of Edinburgh. First up is a visitor from England, James Grieve of Paines Plough, a company who have their own venue in Summerhall and a fast-growing reputation. Next we enjoy Festival recommendations from comic book artist Graeme McNee, who has been providing The List with the wonderful critical comics this Fringe. From there the show heads east via a long conversation with Keti Dolidze, who as artistic director of the Tumanishvili Film Actors Company of Tbilisi and creator of Georgia International Festival of Arts is one of the country's most prominent figures in theatre. Dolidze has been coming to the Fringe since 1988 and this year brings with her an adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, playing at Assembly Roxy.Show notes00:00:32 – James Grieve, co-director, Paines Plough theatre company (I Got Superpowers For My Birthday, Growth and more)00:12:22 – Music from Greater Belfast, Traverse Theatre00:13:48 – Artist Graeme McNee shares some Fringe recommendations: The Shepherd Beguiled @ Duddingston Kirk, Fauré's Requiem by Candlelight @ St Paul's Church, Dusty Horne's Sound and Fury, Alice Unhinged (Young Pleasance), Chopping Chillies00:20:08 – Keti Dolidze, artistic director of Georgia's Tumanishvili Film Actor's Company of Tbilisi (A Streetcar Named Desire)00:37:24 – Credits and thanksCredits:At the Fringe is co-created by Gareth K Vile (host) and Annie Kolemen (producer). Music from Greater Belfast. Equipment supplied by Subcity Radio.Please send feedback to webeditor[at]list.co.uk

Comedian and actor Jonny Donohoe talks about the Edinburgh Fringe and New York success of Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan, as well as his experiences of working interactively with audiences and playing opposite Sarah Jessica Parker. After a successful run on the Edinburgh Fringe in Paines Plough's portable Roundabout Theatre at Summerhall, the production transferred to Barrow Street Theatre in New York from 5 December 2014 until 29 March 2015. Following its run in New York, Every Brilliant Thing will embark on an extensive UK Tour.

David Chadderton talks to Zach Reino, Jessica McKenna and Nick Semar of American comedy group Baby Wants Candy, one of the longest-running companies to offer a brand new, fully-improvised musical at each show. The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical runs at Assembly Roxy until 25 August 2014, plus the same group's All Star Improv Explosion Show runs at Underbelly Bristo Square until the same date. For more information, see babywantscandy.com Also, Philip Fisher talks with James Grieve, co-artistic director of new writing company Paines Plough, about the company’s history, its new touring pop-up theatre Roundabout and its four Edinburgh productions. For more information, see www.painesplough.com

In this podcast, Programme Manager Jennifer Williams talks to poet, playwright and recording artist Kate Tempest about hip hop, poetry, her play Brand New Ancients, mythology, world peace and much more.  Kate has written plays for Paines Plough and the Battersea Arts Centre, written poetry for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Channel 4 and the BBC, worked in schools and won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2012, for Brand New Ancients.  Her band, Sound of Rum, has performed at myriad venues and festivals and she has a collection of poetry coming out with Picador in 2014.  Find out more about Kate at www.katetempest.co.uk Image © Melanieflash.co.uk

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 episode, Hamish Speaks to Kieran Hurley. Kieran is a writer, performer, and theatre maker based in Glasgow. His work is always collaborative, even when it looks like a solo show. Writing credits include Allotment (National Theatre of Scotland), St. Anthony’s (gHost City, Edinburgh Fringe), Chalk Farm (with Julia Taudevin, Tron, Mayfesto), The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Show (co-writer, Oran Mor). His monologue piece Hitch, created in collaboration with pop band Over The Wall, was nominated for a Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) for Best New Play in 2010 and has played throughout the U.K. and internationally and continues to tour in 2012 produced by Trigger (England tour) and the Arches, Glasgow (Scotland tour). As a recipient of the Arches Platform 18 Award he presented a new work, BEATS, with Johnny Whoop, which received rave reviews from The Scotsman (4 stars, Performance of the Week), Herald (4 stars) and The Guardian (4 stars) and has been nominated for two awards at the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) 2012 (Best New Play, and Best use of Music and Sound). Kieran is an associated artist with Forest Fringe, and is currently a supported artist with the National Theatre of Scotland. This is a very special episode as it is the first with Hamish at the helm. With that in mind, here is a short introduction to our new presenter. Hamish is Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre. He trained as theatre director through residencies at Paines Plough and the Donmar Warehouse. He was Staff Director on Blackwatch (National Theatre of Scotland) and UK Associate Director on Shrek The Muscical (Dury Lane). His work as a director includes: Salt Root and Roe, by Tim Price (Donmar Trafalgar Season); Extreme Rambling by Mark Thomas (Tricycle and Tour); Purgatory by Stephen Berkoff (Arcola); His Ghostly Heart by Ben Schiffer (Bush Theatre); Stacy by Jack Thorne (Trafalgar Studios & Arcola Theatre); Pennies by Mike Bartlett and Cricket Bats Unite by Tim Price/Time Cats (Latitiude/Nabokov). For Paines Plough: Paperhouse by Jack Thorne (co-produced with Later); London Pidgeons by Robin French (co-produced by Flight5065) and Whispers of Britain (co-produced by Menier Chocolate Factory). ). Hamish will direct Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro! as part of the Traverse 2012 Festival Programme. Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

As Yet Unnamed London Theatre Podcast 20-Mar-2011 With T R P Watson revstan Glen Pearce www.glenstheatreblog.com Run List Holy Rosenbergs Lidless Umbrellas of Cherbourg Reviews Holy Rosenbergs - Cottesloe Theatre News and Blogs BBC’s Olivier Awards Coverage Billy Elliott becomes first West End show to run dynamic pricing - if demand high for specific performance  price may rise Paines Plough and touring  

Mark Ravenhill is a British playwright, actor and journalist best known for the plays Shopping & F***ing, Some Explicit Polaroids, and Mother Clapp’s Molly House. In 2008, the Royal Court, the Gate Theatre, the National Theatre, Out of Joint, and Paines Plough collectively staged the 17 plays in his Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat. He made his acting debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005, performing his own monologue, Product. Educated at Bristol University, Mr. Ravenhill is a frequent contributor to the arts section of the Guardian.