Reading Plays Podcast
1) Love & Money – Reading Plays – Episode 16
Love and Money is a little known play from 2006, an early work by Dennis Kelly, the London Irish television writer who would go on to create controversial British television series Pulling & Utopi...Show More
2) The Miss Firecracker Contest – Reading Plays – Episode 15
A satire of the Southern potboiler in the form of a beauty pageant, The Miss Firecracker Contest was first performed at a tiny LA theatre in 1980. Later moving to an off Broadway production directed b...Show More
3) The Cripple of Inishmaan – Episode 14 – Reading Plays
Martin McDonagh’s 1996 play ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ is the first in a loosely defined and as yet unfinished Aran Island Trilogy. Set on the most banal of the islands, Inish Maan, ...Show More
4) The Piano Lesson – Episode 13 – Reading Plays
A family history entwined with the legacy of slavery. Black urban poverty in 1930’s Pittsburg. Criminality and working class aspirations. Intersectionality and the patriarchy of the poor. August...Show More
5) Some Girl(s) – Episode 12 – Reading Plays
Some peanuts are eaten, some water bottles empties, some hotel rooms vandalised. Outside of that Neil LaButes ‘Some Girls’ is a less than action packed look at relationships. Love through ...Show More
6) Picasso at the Lapin Agile – Episode 11 – Reading Plays
His autobiography boasts that Steve Martin began working at age ten in the newly opened Disneyland, graduating to study poetry and philosophy and spend 18 years performing as “America’s best loved sta...Show More
7) Disco Pigs – Episode 10 – Reading Plays
Arriving at the end of the nineteen nineties, at exactly the time Martin McDonagh was exploding the Irish national theatre with the first of his Leenane trilogy, Disco Pigs articulated a radical new v...Show More
8) The Bald Soprano – Episode 9 – Reading Plays
Quantum Physics, synchronicity, English mustachios, it has to be Eugene Ionesco’s ‘The Bald Soprano’ (La Cantatrice Chauve). This is a play for which context is essential: Beckett...Show More
9) Doubt (Part 2) – Episode 8 – Reading Plays
We conclude our discussion of JP Shanley’s classic play, doubt. Download: Episode 8 – Doubt (Part 2) ‘Reading Plays‘ is a discussion show, featuring Gareth Stack and James Van ...Show More
10) Reading Plays – Interview – Cast of ‘Welcome to the Ethics Committee’
We interview the cast of the recent Smock Alley production of ‘Welcome to the Ethics Committee’. The play was based on the collaborative fiction project, The SCP Foundation, and was written and direct...Show More