Play: Notes Podcast
1) Playwright Amy Wright
For the second of three episodes on women playwrights connected to Ōtepoti Dunedin, Allison and Emily are joined by Amy Wright to talk about the script she developed during the 2021 Otepoti Theatre La...Show More
2) Playwright Abby Howells
For the first of three episodes on women playwrights connected to Ōtepoti Dunedin, Allison and Emily talk to Abby Howells about her one-woman autobiographical and award-winning show, HarleQueen. Link...Show More
3) Playwright Jo Randerson
In the final episode of season two of Play:Notes, Allison and Emily discuss Banging Cymbal, Clanging Gong with playwright Jo Randerson and how both the work and the playwright have changed since it wa...Show More
4) The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
When is a seagull not a seagull? And why did everyone have so many names? In the first of three episodes on Anton Chekhov’s most famous plays, Allison and Emily discuss The Seagull.Links:Five Chekhov ...Show More
5) Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya shows us just how much Anton Chekhov loved trees, even if not all his characters did. In this episode we also look at the social setting of Chekhov’s Russia and some approaches to translat...Show More
6) Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Is Three Sisters Masha 2.0? Is The Cherry Orchard an early examination of NIMBYism? We cover all this and more – including a big fire of little consequence – in the final of this season’s Chekhov epis...Show More
7) Fleabag
We go out in phenomenal style in the final episode of season one with Fleabag. Since its first showing at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s smash hit one-woman show has launched an ast...Show More
8) The Vagina Monologues
Did they really say that?! It’s time to cover your grandmother’s ears – or not – as we take a look at the play that got so many talking in ways they never had before. Eve Ensler’s landmark work starte...Show More
9) End of the Golden Weather
We round off season one with a trio of monologues. First up, is the New Zealand classic The End of the Golden Weather. If you’ve ever wondered how we do Christmas on the beach in Aotearoa, then this i...Show More
10) Merchant of Venice
In the final of three episodes on Shakespeare we ask if The Merchant of Venice really fits the comedy mould. Was the Bard an anti-Semite? What did he want us to make of Antonio and Bassanio’s bromance...Show More