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Stage left podcast explores performers' approaches to making their work. I teach and write about contemporary theatre and performance at Queen Mary University of London.
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Episode 11 :: FK Alexander :: VIOLENCE & (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow from 2020-08-27T18:51:18
FK Alexander and I met in 2018 to discuss her recent show VIOLENCE and (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow, a 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe breakout hit. FK is a Glasgow-based live artist who...
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Episode 10 :: Krishna Istha :: Beast from 2020-08-27T18:44:20
Krishna Istha and I discuss their stand-up comedy show about trans experience, Beast, directed by Zoë Coombs Marr. Krishna is a London-based performer, writer, live artist, and theatre maker whose ...
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Episode 9 :: BreachTheatre :: It's True, It's True, It's True from 2019-08-15T17:07:57
Breach Theatre co-directors Ellice Stevens and Billy Barrett met me to discuss It’s True, It’s True, It’s True. The show restages the seventeenth-century trial of artist Agostino Tassi for the rape...
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Episode 8 :: Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill :: MOOT MOOT from 2019-08-08T16:09:15
Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill joined me in April 2019 to discuss their collaboratively devised show MOOT MOOT, which appears in the 2019 Showcases of Made in Scotland and the British Council at th...
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Episode 7 :: Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir from 2017-11-11T17:41:54
I met the Reverend Billy – also known as Bill Talen – at Artsadmin’s Toynbee Studios in east London near the end of his Trump Depression Hotline Tour across England in October 2017. Based in New Yo...
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Episode 6 :: Selina Thompson :: salt. from 2017-08-11T16:33
Selina Thompson met me in Birmingham to discuss her show salt., which retraces the route of the Transatlantic slave triangle from the UK to Ghana, to Jamaica, and back. We explore why Selina felt ...
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Episode 5 :: Split Britches :: Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw from 2017-06-30T16:46:01
Iconic lesbian feminist performance company Split Britches’ Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver talk with Jen Harvie about the forty years they’ve worked with – and loved – each other. We discuss how they m...
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Episode 4 :: Scottee from 2017-05-15T23:09:06
Jen Harvie talks with performance maker and artist Scottee whose work consistently addresses the experiences of being an outsider – affected by class, race, and/or sexuality. We discuss his move fr...
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Episode 3 :: Nic Green and Rosana Cade :: Cock and Bull from 2017-04-24T17:43:23
Jen Harvie talks with performance makers Nic Green and Rosana Cade about Cock and Bull, created with Laura Bradshaw for the eve of the 2015 UK General Election and touring in spring 2017 including ...
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Episode 2 :: Lucy McCormick :: Triple Threat from 2017-03-17T23:27:27
Jen Harvie talks with performance maker Lucy McCormick about her show, Triple Threat – a pop-tune-powered, dirty-dancing, hour-long, queer, feminist takeover of the epic story of Jesus. We explore ...
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Episode 1 :: Sh!t Theatre from 2017-02-06T19:02:48
Jen Harvie talks with Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole of Sh!t Theatre about what inspires them and how they devise performance. We hear about their current show, Letters to Windsor House, pre...
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