Dippin' my Big Biscuit in it
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Explore "devised" with insightful episodes like "Dippin' my Big Biscuit in it", "Episode 14 - Dreams of Icarus", "Thespis Interviews Dr Chandra Owenby Hopkins, Director of Growing Old: Food and Oral History in Performance", "SBC Theatre considers Where We Began with migrant stories" and "The Paper Birds go Mobile in a caravan" from podcasts like ""Dumb and Delicious", "Outcry Theatre Podcast", "Thespis In The Green Room: A Podcast", "British Theatre Guide podcast" and "British Theatre Guide podcast"" and more!
Episodes (7)
Episode 14 - Dreams of Icarus
The fourteenth episode of the Outcry Theatre Podcast features the three creators of the world premiere devised theatre piece Dreams of Icarus. The director (and podcast host) Becca Johnson-Spinos talks with the two actors, Dylan Weand, who plays Icarus, and Logan Beutel, who plays Daedalus. They discuss the long and difficult, but ultimately fruitful, process of creating a play from the ground up.
Thespis Interviews Dr Chandra Owenby Hopkins, Director of Growing Old: Food and Oral History in Performance
S1 Ep22 2029-2-21 Thespis Interviews Dr Chandra Owenby Hopkins, Director of Growing Old: Food and Oral History in Performance at Theatre Converse - Converse College
Melanie talks with Dr Chandra Owenby Hopkins, Associate Professor of Theatre at Converse College and director or the new devised play, Growing Old: Food and Oral History in Performance. Plus, show listings for the Upstate of SC.
https://www.converse.edu/event/growing-old-food-oral-history-performance-theatre-converse
SBC Theatre considers Where We Began with migrant stories
Where We Began is a new piece of theatre devised by a multicultural cast and instigated by Stand and Be Counted Theatre. This company works extensively with asylum seekers, migrants and others seeking sanctuary.
Here, BTG reviewer Mark Smith speaks to writer/performer Rosie MacPherson, one of the Artistic Directors of Stand and Be Counted, and Tafadzwa Muchenje, one of the devisers and performers of the show. They discuss the company's development as well as Taf's own route to working with SBC. After ten years living and studying in the UK, his residency status was suddenly thrown into uncertainty. Watching SBC's previous work, Tanja, provided inspiration and impetus for him as he challenged the Home Office ruling on his "right to remain", and led to this new collaboration.
Where We Began is devised by Shireen Farkhoy, Zoe Katsilerou, Fernanda Mandagará, Gaël Le Cornec, Rosie MacPherson and Tafadzwa Muchenje, and directed by Hannah Butterfield. It tours across the country until the end of October.
"We want to give the audience space, in the chaos, to connect with the stories."
The Paper Birds go Mobile in a caravan
Producer Bonnie Mitchell and performer Kylie Walsh talk about Mobile, a production from The Paper Birds that takes place in a small caravan for an audience of up to eight people at a time.
Bonnie and Kylie talk about the themes of class and social mobility, the devising process and the special challenges of touring a show for a tiny audience in a caravan.
The production, a co-commission from Live Theatre and The Marlowe Theatre, has just finished its first tour. It will be visiting The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury from 8 to 12 October and Theatre Royal Plymouth from 1 to 5 November 2016 before touring again in 2017.
For more information, see www.thepaperbirds.com.
(Photo of Kylie Walsh credit: Richard Davenport)
Louise Lowe and the cast of Angel Meadow from ANU Productions and HOME Manchester
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.)
Andrew Quick of Imitating the Dog on The Zero Hour and 6 Degrees Below the Horizon
Andrew Quick of Imitating the Dog talks about the company's methods and interests, and gives some details about the forthcoming tours of its two new productions: The Zero Hour and 6 Degrees Below the Horizon.
The tour dates are:
- Wednesday 30th - Thursday 31st January: Live at LICA, Lancaster (The Zero Hour)
- Wednesday 6th - Thursday 7th February: Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, UK (6 Degrees Below the Horizon)
- Friday 8th - Saturday 9th February: Warwick Arts Centre (The Zero Hour)
- Tuesday 12th February: Axis Arts Centre, Crewe (6 Degrees Below the Horizon)
- Thursday 14th - Saturday 16th February: West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds (The Zero Hour)
- Tuesday 26th - Wednesday 27th March: Exeter Northcott Theatre (6 Degrees Below the Horizon)
- Thursday 9th May: Contact, Manchester (6 Degrees Below the Horizon)