Podcasts about spymonkey

Todays guest is Spymonkey co-founder, Aitor Basauri, Aitor is an acclaimed teacher of clown and performer, regularly holding Spymonkey masterclasses in London, New York, Berlin, Los Angeles and around the world, and for the Clown Doctors organisation in Germany, Austria and France. Here is an overview of what we discussed:[[04:26]] My experience with Philippe Gaulier[[05:36]] How Spymonkey started[[14:59]] Clowns always trying to be good but are always bad[[15:54]] The challenge of recreating clown material [[19:42]] Is there a difference between clowning and standup[[32:39]] Being a teacher, director and student and how they help you as a clown[[47:23]] Good clown performances are a mix of improv, rehearsals and games, where you question where it is in the moment.[[50:00]] Who he loves as clowns[[59:28]] The problem with repeating clown routines you lose the pleasure If you would like to know more on Aitor, you can reach him on Twitter at aitorbasba, Instagram at aitorbasauri and on the Spymonkey website at https://www.spymonkey.co.uk/. If you are interested in Marvin, you can follow him through his Linktree at https://linktr.ee/theflopmaster. You can follow this podcast on Youtube at https://bit.ly/41LWDAq, Spotify at https://spoti.fi/3oLrmyU and Apple podcasts at https://apple.co/3LEkr3E.

Happy 2023, dicks and dickesses!!We decided to start off the new year by playing a game that we were both given for Christmas, Great Shakespearean Deaths, a card game by Chris Riddell & Spymonkey.Let the games begin!!!  Also, make sure you join us on January 20, when we will be doing a "The Bardcast Goes to London and Stratford" preview episode!!!!Announcements!!!   We are now a federal non-profit 501C3, so any money you donate towards the podcast is a 100% tax deduction - doesn't that absolutely rock for both you and us?!?!?!?  Get on it, dear listeners!!!  Much obliged :) Also... we are going to the UK in late January 2023!!! Seeing a bunch of Shakespeare plays in London and Stratford Upon Avon, and visiting major Shakespeare attractions and maybe even (hopefully!) a private tour of the Globe!! Donations towards that trip are gleefully accepted, and we will send you swag in return!!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -On Patreon, go here:  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=trueOr on Paypal:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8KTK7CATJSRYJTo visit our website, go here:https://www.thebardcastyoudick.comTo donate to an awesome charity, go here:https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-reliefLike us? Don't have any extra moolah? We get it! Still love us and want to support us?? Then leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!Episode Sources:Great Shakespearean Deaths Card Game by Chris Riddell and Spymonkey - Chronicle BooksYears and years of experience with Shakespeare from two - scratch that, SIX!!! -  rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!  And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)Many, many, many books.And the inter webs :) 

Annie performs monthly at the online cabaret Big Wowie and is part of the comedy collective HaHaFlix. At 18 Annie assisted Paul King (The Mighty Boosh, Paddington) on the Fringe show The Blue Diamond of Azkabar which toured her home county of Kent. Having completed her degree in English and Drama at Goldsmiths she went on to assist Cal McCrystal in Switzerland on the Spymonkey show Bless. Next she moved to Paris to study with Philippe Gaulier. Since graduating, Annie has performed several original Fringe comedy shows, as well as performing professionally in children's theatre. Annie was a cohost of The Lost Cabaret, an alternative comedy night in London, for two years. She is also a drama facilitator and currently works for a social enterprise teaching drama to adults with disabilities.In this episode we discuss how Annie's experiences with bipolar disorder impacted her sense of self, the ways in which David Lynch does mania justice, hallucinations, trusting the voices in your head, the insidious ways being sectioned can affect intimate relationships, and why Annie is at her healthiest, and happiest, when pretending to be other people. You can find Annie being curious, whimsical and wild on: Instagram @annabelandbooand Etsy AnnabelAndBooFor more information about Angel Comedy Club and the comedy courses they run check out Angel Comedy CoursesSupport the podcast with a one off donation on https://ko-fi.com/helenduff or to get access to all sorts of extra audio / video content become a regular subscriber on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/HelenDuffIntro / Outro music by Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir; musical interludes written and performed by Helen Duff, arranged by Touch & Compass; edited by Daisy Grant; produced by Helen Duff, Lorna Treen and Daisy Grant. Follow the podcast on Instagram: Instagram: @comeasyouarepod Twitter: @ComeAsYouArePo2 Facebook: @ComeAsYouArePodFind Helen Duff www.helenduff.comInstagram: @DuffMarvelTwitter: @DuffMarvelFacebook: @helenduffcomedyThis podcast would not have been possible without the support and advice of Sam Sapin, Ben Target, Alice Freedman, Hayley Stirling, Catherine Brinkworth and Kate Watson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's episode Josh and Lyndsay chat about the future of Blue Man Group in Orlando, if insurance payouts will be enough to save Broadway, and whether or not circuses will be eligible for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grants. Later in the show they call renowned clown and creator Petra Massey. Petra talks about her life on the street and in the circus as well as the two shows she led in Las Vegas: Cirque Du Soleil's Zumanity and Spiegelworld's Atomic Saloon. If you enjoy the show please share it with a friend and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Have a great week!

On today's episode Josh and Lyndsay chat about the future of Blue Man Group in Orlando, if insurance payouts will be enough to save Broadway, and whether or not circuses will be eligible for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grants. Later in the show they call renowned clown and creator Petra Massey. Petra talks about her life on the street and in the circus as well as the two shows she led in Las Vegas: Cirque Du Soleil's Zumanity and Spiegelworld's Atomic Saloon. If you enjoy the show please share it with a friend and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Have a great week!

Christmas is just around the corner, so we've been finding out what pantos and Christmas shows we can look forward to this year with audio description. RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell spoke to Anne Hornsby from Mind's Eye Arts to look at these forthcoming festive treats. For more information visit: www.mindseyedescription.co.uk (http://www.mindseyedescription.co.uk/) #RNIBConnect (Image: Toby Park as Scrooge in Spymonkey's A Christmas Carol, looks on in horror. Credit: Johan Persson)

Spymonkey's Petra Massey talks her twenty years of Spymonkey and their show Cooped.

Brighton's own Spymonkey discuss the show which made them an international comedy sensation.

Melita & Rebecca take you on the inside track of the Brighton Festival. Today, the Distorted Constellations exhibition; Sam Sweeney's 'The Unfinished Violin'; the Brighton Youth Orchestra; a look at the children's events programme; Spymonkey's comedy theatre show, 'Cooped'.

Jack O'Connell, whose previous lead roles include Starred Up, '71 and Angelina Jolie's Unbroken, discusses his latest film in which he plays a disgruntled New Yorker with a grudge who takes George Clooney's character hostage in the financial thriller Money Monster, directed by Jodie Foster.Seeing Round Corners at Turner Contemporary in Margate explores the role of the circle in art. From sculpture to film and painting to performance, the exhibition brings together works by leading historical and contemporary artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Barbara Hepworth, JMW Turner and Anish Kapoor. Art historian and critic Richard Cork reviews.Jason Solomons rates the contenders for the Palme d'Or as the Cannes Film Festival comes to an end this week.Spymonkey's The Complete Deaths brings all of the killings in Shakespeare's works into one play. Kirsty speaks to actor Toby Park and director Tim Crouch.Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Rachel Simpson.

Find out what a Spymonkey is & meet Uzo Aduba who is starring in Jamie Lloyd's new play.

In the second of five essays, the theatre director Emma Rice explores the role of the director as storyteller, and elaborates on the undertaking that transforms a text into a fully-fledged production.Emma Rice is the Joint Artistic Director of Kneehigh Theatre. For Kneehigh, she has directed for The Red Shoes (2002 Theatrical Management Association [TMA] Theatre Award for Best Director); The Wooden Frock (2004 TMA Theatre Award nomination for Best Touring Production); The Bacchae (2005 TMA Theatre Award for Best Touring Production); Tristan & Yseult (2006 TMA Theatre Award nomination for Best Touring Production); Cymbeline (in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company for The Complete Works festival); A Matter of Life and Death (Royal National Theatre production in association with Kneehigh Theatre); Rapunzel (in association with Battersea Arts Centre); Brief Encounter (tour and West End; Studio 54, Broadway); and Don John (in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Bristol Old Vic). She was nominated for the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Director for Brief Encounter.Emma's latest work includes Oedipussy for Spymonkey; Steptoe & Son; the West End production of Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Wah! Wah! Girls for World Stages in association with Sadler's Wells and Theatre Royal Stratford East; and, in spring 2013, The Empress at the RSC.The series is produced by Sasha Yevtushenko.First broadcast in February 2012.

Libby Purves meets Will Moult, a Romanian orphan who was adopted by a British couple after the fall of the Ceausescu regime; actor Diana Quick; theatre director Cal McCrystal and sculptor Nic Fiddian-Green. Will Moult was adopted by a British couple in 1990 after the fall of the Ceausescu regime in Romania. More than 20 years later he returns to the country in search of his birth mother for an ITV1 documentary, From Romania with Love. Actor Diana Quick is appearing in Richard Greenberg's The American Plan at the Theatre Royal Bath. Diana's repertoire ranges from Troilus and Cressida to The Threepenny Opera. She has also curated the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival. The American Plan is at The Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath. Cal McCrystal is directing Alan Ayckbourn's Mr Whatnot at the Royal & Derngate Theatre in Northampton. He is a physical comedy specialist who worked on One Man, Two Guvnors and the Sacha Baron Cohen film The Dictator. A former clown, he also works with physical theatre company Spymonkey and Cirque du Soleil. Mr Whatnot is at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton. Nic Fiddian-Green is a sculptor known for his equine sculptures, notably his striking head of a drinking horse at Marble Arch - a permanent work of art for London. His latest work, Christ Rests In Peace, is a continuation of his quest to create the face of Christ. It is an 8 foot head of Jesus cast in lead with the crown of thorns and finished in gold leaf. The sculpture is on display at Southwark Cathedral in London during Lent and Holy Week. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Welcome to the first Funny Looking Podcast, the podcast about comedy that nobody is calling for! We want to actively look for the funny in any form, whether it is live, on the telly or via that wonderful internet gateway. This time we watched and chatted about the Sarah Millican Television Programme. @SarahMillican75 We went … Continue reading "Funny Looking Podcast 01! Spymonkey & Spike"