Play Ground Theatre Podcast

🎭✨ A fortnightly theatre bookclub hosted by @N_Netherwood and @SamWebberCool - New episodes every other Thursday 🎭✨

[Nancy Netherwood @N_Netherwood]

My play RADIANT BOY is being read at Hampstead Theatre on 27th Feb + I would love friends/potential collaborators to see it! It's a play with music set in the 80s in the North East about shame + faith + queerness + loving New Order + I'm very proud of it! DM for the booking link!

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This week we mention/recommend:
🚘 Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
🚘 Shipwreck - Anne Washburn
🚘 The Movie Orgy (1968)
🚘 Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
🚘 The Oresteia - Aeschylus

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In the newest episode of Play Ground we go back to pod fave Anne Washburn - this time we're covering her 'post-electric' pop culture-infused drama/opera/fever dream MR BURNS 🕯️🚘⛴️

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Episode 25 is out now and its HOT STUFF - this time we're talking about Tennessee Williams' Greek myth-inspired melodrama ORPHEUS DESCENDING 🐍🎸

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Though the play has been adapted & staged many times, it's probably best known as the basis of the beloved Broadway musical, most recently staged at @AlmeidaTheatre (which we both loved and reference A LOT in the ep)

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Our 2nd ep in 2 weeks you say?? This time on Play Ground we're talking about Frank Wedekind's notoriously provocative and much-censored SPRING AWAKENING

TW: mentions of sexual assault, self-harm, suicide

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Listen to episode 23 of Play Ground to hear us finally tackling our first Shakespeare, the hard-to-classify, Bard's-greatest-hits Ancient British drama Cymbeline ⚔️💍🛡️

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[Adrian Moore @thatmoorefella]

Finally catching up with this lovely podcast and this is my favourite episode they've done yet. @N_Netherwood and @SamWebberCool bring so much warmth and insight and I always get the coolest recommendations for new plays to read. Definitely check them out!

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This week we recommend:
🕯 Lungs - Duncan Macmillan
🕯When the Wind Blows (1986)
🕯Yellowfin - Marek Horn
🕯Primer (2004)

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This week on Play Ground we're covering YOU STUPID DARKNESS! a warm, witty and deeply humane take on surviving the apocalypse by pod favourite Sam Steiner 🫖🌊🕯️
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We’re back (again)! And it’s another banger - in episode 21 we’re talking about Annie Baker’s quiet masterpiece THE FLICK 📽🍿

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This week we mention:
🎄The plays of Jez Butterworth
🎄Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
🎄A Table Tennis Play - Sam Steiner
🎄The Hospice - Robert Aickman
🎄The Smoking Diaries - Simon Gray
🎄Love and Other Acts of Violence - Cordelia Lynn
🎄Rothschild’s Walk - Steve waters

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Did you miss us? After a little summer (ok, and half of autumn) break we're back with a new episode about Harold Pinter's unsettling 'comedy of menace' THE HOTHOUSE 🎄🍰🍸

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Written in 1958 but not performed until 1980, THE HOTHOUSE premiered at @Hamps_Theatre directed by Pinter himself, who also starred in the play when it was revived at @ChichesterFT in 1995

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This week we mention:
🎭Edward Gordon Craig’s essays on theatre
🎭The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
🎭The Habit of Art/Kafka’s Dick - Alan Bennett
🎭The Laramie Project - The Tectonic Theater Project
🎭Nine Night - Natasha Gordon
🎭Various TV shows with unhinged twists

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Episode 19 (!) is out now and this time we're talking about Luigi Pirandello's metatheatrical masterpiece Six Characters in Search of an Author 🐕🎭

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[The Wardrobe Ensemble @WardrobEnsemble]

We are still programming for #TheatreOnTheDowns and we want to fill the space with as many South West based artists as possible so if you have a show that you think might work in the tent please get in touch at [email protected]

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Play Ground favourite Wild Swimming is back!! Catch it in Bristol this summer at The Theatre on the Downs, where it'll be running along with a bunch of other exciting shows curated by the extremely wonderful @WardrobEnsemble!

[FullRogue @FullRogue]

GUESS WHO'S BACK
Back again
Wild Swimming's BACK

Please for the love of god tell ALL your friends

https://t.co/Y7aDZ7j3Ra

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The Woods premiered at @royalcourt in September 2018 and starred Lesley Sharp and Tom Motherdale. Sam describes it as 'poetry in motion'; Nancy describes it as 'the best'

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It's been a hectic few weeks at Play Ground but we are BACK with a new episode on The Woods by Robert Alan Evans, a shape-shifting fable about grief, motherhood and the deep dark woods of the mind 🌲🐺🔥

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