Best New Perspectives Theatre Company Podcast Podcasts (2024)

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Box Set Summer Festival 20:23

28d ago20:23

20:23

10 plays in 8 days, The Putney Theatre Box Set Summer Festival brings the energy of the Edinburgh Fringe to your doorstep. Cait interviews Festival Director Ian Higham about everything you'd like to know. For tickets and full information, take a look at https://www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/event-5741694 Performances: 27 July – 2 August main stage A…

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Agatha Christie's Go Back For Murder 13:38

2M ago13:38

13:38

Recorded in our busy theatre (four directors and their casts in all parts of the building), Cait interviews Angel Witney (Lady Melksham, Past), Emily Dixon(Miss Williams, Past) and Reid Edmond (Amyas Crale) from the stunning new production. Agatha Christie's Go Back for Murder is a stunning drama from the Queen of Crime. After a wrongly convicted w…

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Beginning by David Eldridge 11:52

3M ago11:52

11:52

Cast preview with Debra Bond ( Laura) and Des Healy (Danny). Interviewed by Cait they discuss the themes and drama of David Eldridges powerful play Beginning, directed by Ben Clare. Laura's thrown a housewarming party at her new flat. Danny is the last man standing. It's meant to be isn't it? Or is it? They're both single. They both really like eac…

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The Lovely Bones 16:52

4M ago16:52

16:52

The Lovely Bones cast members Isabella (Susie), Ava (Lindsey) and Andrew (Mr Harvey) interviewed by Cait (Grandma Lynn). Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones has been a bestseller throughout the world and the 2009 film, directed by Peter Jackson starring Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon won a number of i…

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Scandaltown 15:21

5M ago15:21

15:21

Episode featuring Scandaltown by Mike Bartlett, a new production from the Putney Theatre Company, directed by Stuart Watson. Cait interviews cast members Lucy Oglesby, Louisa Pead and Sammy Moore. About the play: Moral and progressive young heroine Phoebe Virtue disguises herself as an IT consultant and journeys to London to rescue her brother Jack…

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The Children by Lucy Kirkwood 19:09

7M ago19:09

19:09

Cait interviews Frances, Mel and Paul, the cast of Lucy Kirkwood's tense drama, The Children. Hazel and Robin live in a cottage by the sea because their house has been made uninhabitable by a catastrophic radiation leak at the nearby nuclear power station where they both worked. One day Rose, an old colleague, arrives on a visit. Her visit stirs up…

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My Fair lady 15:57

9M ago15:57

15:57

Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe's celebrated musical comes to the South West End! Director: Tom Sainsbury and Musical Director Richard Campbell lead a fabulous cast and crew, with the classic songs, 'I Could Have Danced All Night', 'Get Me to the Church on Time', 'Wouldn’t It Be Loverly', 'On the Street Where You Live', extravagant dancing and pin…

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Amadeus 15:33

10M ago15:33

15:33

One of the great plays of the 20th century, Amadeus is a riveting, must-see story about the difference between talent and true virtuosity. A sublimely operatic, darkly engrossing take on music, madness and…whisper it... murder. In this latest episode of Light's Up! Cait interviews three members of the Amadeus cast: Paul, Nathan and Emily. Director:…

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Apologia 21:13

11M ago21:13

21:13

Hear Cait talking to Amanda, Chris and Geoff about the latest awesome production, Apologia by Alexi Kaye Campbell. Alexi Kaye Campbell's Apologia is a powerful truthful family drama that delves into how the past can shape the present and examines the sacrifices we are willing to make to fight for what we believe in, no matter how it impacts the one…

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The Hound of the Baskervilles 16:16

11M ago16:16

16:16

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a gloriously funny makeover: When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his estate, with a look of terror still etched on his face, and the paw prints of a gigantic hound beside his body, the great detective Sherlock Holmes is summoned from Baker Street, with Dr Watson in tow, t…

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Canterbury Tales 15:00

1y ago15:00

15:00

Putney Theatre Company on Tour! At two outdoor venues this year, PTC brings you their funny, fast paced, modern English version of The Canterbury Tales. Inspired by Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales but re-written into modern day English with hilarious effect, this fun version loses none of the charm of the original tales that have had such an enduring le…

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Sense and Sensibility 15:26

1y ago15:26

15:26

Cait interviews Emma (Elinor) , Olivia (Marianne) and Isabella (Margaret) to introduce the wonderful new production from the Putney Theatre Company: Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen's classic, adapted by Jessica Swale and directed by Ben Clare. In case you don't know, here's an outline of the ageless story. When their wealthy half-brother cheats th…

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Mayfly 18:36

1+ y ago18:36

18:36

Previewing the new producrtion of Joe White's Mayfly. Ben thinks his family might be better off without him, but his wife Cat has read her stars: 'Today a very special person will appear from out the blue.' Their daughter Loops is getting ready for a date. It's her first one, and she has everything crossed. An ethereal family drama, Joe White's deb…

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The Welkin 27:38

1+ y ago27:38

27:38

Podcast preview of the new stage production of Lucy Kirkwood's The Welkin, with cast members Lucy Mabbitt (Sally Poppy) and Sarah Perkins (Elizabeth (Lizzy) Luke). A murderer’s fate lies in the hands of 12 women. Sally has committed the wickedest of crimes but her claims of pregnancy, perhaps, demand clemency. A panel of Suffolk matrons, pulled fro…

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The Last of the Haussmans 13:31

1+ y ago13:31

13:31

As a long, hot summer fades to winter, the Haussmans both love and hate one another, their dysfunctional pasts overwhelming the present. Of the original National Theatre production The Stage said “gloriously textured, utterly authentic… hilarious and haunting.” A brilliant play by BAFTA award winner Stephen Beresford, brought to life by the experti…

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Kindertransport 20:48

1+ y ago20:48

20:48

Preview of the powerful new production by Putney Theatre Company. Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new life. Diane Samuels’ seminal play is a modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past, a story of family partings - of love and loss. No…

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Dick Whittington Panto - Radio Preview 15:33

1+ y ago15:33

15:33

Extract from Riverside Radio's Sian Kenyon's interview with Time Iredale, Cait Hart Dyke and Lyndall Brown from the Putney Theatre Company (PTC) production of the classic panto. Dick Whittington, written by the PTC writing team, is a riotous panto in the great tradition of brilliant entertainment for all the family Can Dick outwit the evil rodent K…

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Reunion - Alice in Wonderland 33:20

1+ y ago33:20

33:20

A longer episode this week, with the first of our Reunion episodes. For Alice in Wonderland (January 2022) director Frances Bodiam leads the discussion with several members of cast and crew: Chris Cully, Jim Dixon, Tim Iredale, Cait Hart Dyke, Jeff Graves and Loetitia Delais. Artistic Directors: Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. Podcast Editor and sound d…

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Dick Whittington Panto Preview 12:39

1+ y ago12:39

12:39

Fun preview interview by Cait who chats with Rosie Richards, the hero of the panto, and Daniel Wain, the madcap chef. Putney Theatre Company’s Dick Whittington, is written by the PTC writing team. Join our the eponymous Dick, with his trusty cat, as he seeks fame, fortune and happiness on his journey to become the Lord Mayor. Guided by the magical …

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Great Expectations Riverside Radio edition 12:39

2y ago12:39

12:39

A quick update for Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations. This episode features an extract, recorded by Zoom from the Riverside Radio interview with Ian Higham (Director), Clare Wall David (Miss Haversham) and Graham Kellas (Abel Magwitch). We apologise for the audio quality of the main segment, but the discussion is really inte…

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Great Expectations 12:39

2y ago12:39

12:39

Neil Bartlett’s acclaimed adaptation of Great Expectations thrillingly brings to life on the stage some of Charles Dickens' most memorable characters. The aspirational Pip, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham, her beautiful ward Estella and Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket…

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Ulster American Riverside Radio edition 10:31

2y ago10:31

10:31

A quick update for the first night of Ulster American, directed by Stuart Watson and starring Nathan Cable as Jay Conway, Paddy Cooper as Leigh Carver and Imogen Reeve-Tucker as Ruth Davenport. This episode features an extract from the Riverside Radio interview with Paddy, and the Putney Theatre Artistic Directors Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. Three p…

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Ulster American 13:48

2y ago13:48

13:48

Preview of Ulster American for its London premiere following acclaimed productions in Edinburgh and Dublin. This scintillating play examines issues of cultural identity, abuse of power, and male privilege. It's uncompromising, exhilarating, viciously funny, and not for the faint of heart. Three people meet on the eve of rehearsals for a new West En…

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Midsummer Night's Dream 16:16

2y ago16:16

16:16

The first performance of the new season is the magnificent Midsummer Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most popular and enduring plays. Suitable for families, children and anyone interested in theatre this new production is the perfect introduction to the Putney Theatre Company with performances at the Hurlingham Club and Putney Arts Theatre. Thi…

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Seasonal Review 2022-23 9:44

2y ago9:44

9:44

Cait and Barney run through the new productions for the coming season with a taste of contemporary and classic drama designed to appeal to families, schools and the culturally curious. Artistic Directors: Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. Podcast Editor and sound design: Nick Wells. Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic S…

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Post-Show Podcast: Sonja Linden’s Roundelay 23:59

7+ y ago23:59

23:59

An interview with Sonja Linden by her daughter and Co-Director of Hackney Showroom, Nina Lyndon, unveiling the extent to which Roundelay and her former work have been inspired by her personal narrative. Introduced by Claire French.Roundelay is part of a Linden's vast portfolio of plays, including a rich writing history with asylum seekers and refug…

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Post-show Podcast: Why is addressing age diversity a concern for all British actors? 44:29

7+ y ago44:29

44:29

With older age effaced in our theatres and on our screens, Visible think it vital that we openly debate ways we can work together to secure the futures of our professional actors, while representing the diversity of the British population (1 in 3 of which are now over 60 years old). This session crucially aimed to bring to the fore the necessity of…

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Post-show Podcast: Writing the end of Roundelay 23:11

7+ y ago23:11

23:11

An invitation into the writer’s process: writer Sonja Linden and actress Clare Perkins, Roundelay’s Ringmistress, will discuss the nature of their close collaboration in writing the epilogue for Roundelay. Chaired by Claire French.A ROUNDELAY post-show discussion, Roundelay by Sonja Linden, 23 February to 18 March 2017, Southwark Playhouse…

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Post-show Podcast: Anna Ledwich and Diane Alison-Mitchell on the ambition of Roundelay 23:45

7+ y ago23:45

23:45

A discussion between Director Anna Ledwich and Movement Director Diane Alison-Mitchell on their creative process in leading the ensemble through this fierce and physical new play by Sonja Linden. Chaired by Claire French.Ledwich’s recent accolades include the mid-2016 Hampstead main stage production Labyrinth by Beth Steel described as ‘racily exci…

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Post-show Podcast: From Reigen to Roundelay: a conversation between Mike Alfreds and Sonja Linden 27:11

7+ y ago27:11

27:11

Arthur Schnitzler’s Reigen (1897) has enjoyed multiple cinematic and theatrical translations and adaptions, from his own La Ronde in Vienna (1920) to David Hare’s The Blue Room (1998) and Jo DiPietro’s Fucking Men (2009) in New York.This conversation between director Mike Alfreds, who in his 50-year career has translated and directed three producti…

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Post-show Podcast: The diversity of sex and relationships across the ages 36:46

7+ y ago36:46

36:46

Many loves? Shifting sexualities? Intergenerational relationships?This panel discussion brought together a diverse pair of experts to comment on and discuss how Roundelay engages with diversity, sex and relationships across the ages.Featuring Dr David Lee, Research Fellow at Manchester University who has been widely acknowledged for his recent rese…

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New Perspective Theatre Company Podcast 1 1:29:39

8y ago1:29:39

1:29:39

A history of The New Perspectives Theatre Company with Artistic Director Melody Brooks, Resident Fight Director Ray Rodriguez, Resident Production Designer Meganne George and Host Federico Trigo.By NPTC

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