The Everything Theatre Interviews

Our latest guests are Grace, Hen and Sadie, who together are Full Frontal Theatre. Their latest show, Rodney Black: Who Cares? It's Working is about to hit the stage at Lion And Unicorn Theatre, so it seemed a good time to sit down and chat to the trio. We discuss the show, cancel culture, being young females in the arts and whether the audience should be naked during the show (spoiler, no, especi...

Voila! Festival has grown from its humble beginnings back in 2012 when it was a French and English bilingual festival held just at The Cockpit. As a response to Brexit, it initially expanded its remit to include all European languages across three venues. But after a year off in 2023 to reset, it’s back even bigger and even stronger, now finding itself across nine different venues across London wi...

When we were offered the chance to chat with Fred Deakin, well, as soon as we realised Fred was one half of Lemon Jelly, whose CD's adorn many a record collection, how could we not be excited. Fred has brought his life of the 80s and 90s in and out of clubs to the theatre stage in what could well be a whole new genre; club theatre! It was a big success in Edinburgh, winning 2023 Edinburgh Fringe-F...

This week's guest is Rio Matchett, Artistic Director of Camden People's Theatre, and in theory, here to chat about CPT's current The State We're In Festival , which is running until 10 November. However, Rio had only been in post for five days at the time of the interview, and so the conversation found itself going in all sorts of different directions - from what she has planned for the future at...

The Cast and Crew of Frank's Closet chat about the evolution of the show. Frank's Closet has been on a journey and is about to 'dip it's glittery toe in the pool' of the West End at the Arts Theatre for two special performances. It premiered in 2009 at the Hoxton Hall, in celebration of this historic venue. It lay dormant until it was unearthed during the Lockdown. Fast forward to March 2024 and F...

Andrew Keates talks about the genesis of Queer Theatre Ltd. Originally founded in 2012 as Arion Production Ltd, in July 2024 a rebrand and a renewed focus occurred, following dramatic events in Andrew Keates' personal life. The result, Queer Theatre Ltd. We talked to Andrew about the events that lead up to this change and the redemptive nature of his story and his renewed drive to nurture LGBTQIA+...

Camden People's Theatre 's The State We're In Festival is three weeks of theatre and performance lifting the lid on Britain’s democracy, politics and public life at the dawn of a new government. It seems the perfect home for Worklight Theatre 's It's The Economy, Stupid , which sees Joe Sellman-Leava , alongside Worklight colleague Dylan Howells , embark on a quest to uncover how the economy wins...

One of the more unusual shows (and there were certainly plenty of them!) we saw at this year's Camden Fringe was Play-AI. Taking the traditional improv approach of asking the audience to suggest ideas, it was then all fed into ChatGPT and a script made up on the spot for the cast to act out. Yes it sounds horrific for so many reasons, but as Emma Richardson tells us, that is almost the point, espe...

Having made a brief appearance on our GrimFest Launch Party Special podcast , we invited Finella Waddilove back to chat some more about her show The Blair Bitch Porject , which will be playing at Old Red Lion Theatre from 15 to 18 October. And she even brought along Katryn Crosby , who shares acting duties with Finella in the show. We chat about the show, whether there will be an abundance of fake...

Our final guest in our short run of GrimFest Launch Party interviews is Nilgün Yusuf, who tells us about her show Nine Moons. Nine Moons is a play about hair, blood and guts, a rites-of-passage story with a supernatural twist unfolds through nine lunar cycles and explores the relationship of women to their bodies, the world and each other.  Note that as this was recorded during the launch party, t...

Next in our run of GrimFest launch party interviews is Maya Hallpike, one half of the Hooky Productions team, whose show Experiment Human we've been supporting since we first met them at the start of 2021. Maya was at the lauch party to do a short solo performance taken from Experiment Human, so we were delighted to get to chat with her afterwards about the show and how their Edinburgh Fringe run...

We continue our short run of GrimFest interviews with Paul Kalburgi talking about bringing his show Almost The Birthday Party back for this year's festival. As Paul tells us, the show was originally performed around ten years ago, but has now been reworked for this year's festival. This interview was recorded during the launch party, and as such, there is background noise of the party in full swin...

GrimFest is, as the name tells you, a festival of all things grim. So you can expect plenty of shows with a little spookiness. We took ourselves along to the recent launch party for the festival, and grabbed some time with a few people involved. Finella Waddilove's The Blair Bitch Project takes us deep into the woods where Fay is waiting for her friend to arrive. But something seems terribly wrong...

GrimFest is, as the name tells you, a festival of all things grim. So you can expect plenty of shows with a little spookiness. We took ourselves along to the recent launch party for the festival, and grabbed some time with a few people involved. David Hoskin's A Haunted House is a title that really doesn't need much more explaination! We talk to David about the show, and why mime and horror actual...

GrimFest is, as the name tells you, a festival of all things grim. So you can expect plenty of shows with a little spookiness. We took ourselves along to the recent launch party for the festival, and grabbed some time with a few people involved. First up are Nina Atesh and Jack Robertson, curators of the festival, to talk about what to expect from this third edition of GrimFest. Note that the inte...

Having only just recovered from Camden Fringe, we were thinking we'd have a couple of quiet weeks. But then we realised Lambeth Fringe was around the corner. So instead we headed south of the river to catch up with one of the festival organisers, Velenzia Spearpoint. We discuss why the festival has been rebranded for this year, having previously been known as Clapham Fringe, why they cannot wa...

We invited a group of artists who had shows on at this year's Camden Fringe to discuss the experience - what they learned from putting their show on, what problems they encountered, and why ultimately it was a worthwhile experience. Participants: Ruby Blue Tansey-Thomas Zofia Zerphy  Hassan Govia Benedict Esdale Jon Hague You can find out more about the participants on our website.

Lady Montagu Unveiled promises us a blend of Gossip Girl, Bridgerton, with dashes of Hamilton. What's not to like about that combination. Throw in Thesy Surface, an actor with some fine pedigree, including a recurring role in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia as the rather disturbing and monobrowed Margaret McPoyle. But she's given up the glamour of working in America to bring her one...

We grabbed five minutes with Alice Motta during the recent Camden Fringe Launch Party, firstly as we needed someone to take a photo of our little team who were there, but also so we could chat about her show. Find out about her show and why she has stopped using an actual bath in her set! You can read more about the show in a fuller interview we did with Alice here .

We first spoke to sisters Rosa and Maya back at the start of 2022, when they were preparing to take their new show, Experiment Human to VAULT Festival. That festival was unfortunately cancelled, but not to be deterred, they made alternative plans, including a short run in July of that year, which coincided with the heatwave that saw temperatures pass 40C and resulting in the first dates being canc...

We first bumped into Anya Hope Birch as part of Act II Festival, where she was an Assosiate Producer. After bending her ear for an hour or so in the bar afterwards, it only seemed fair we should give her the chance to chat back on our podcast. So that's how Anya, along with director Henry Roberts and writer Lucy Josephine, who collectively make up Mooski Theatre Company, found themselves as ou...

If you're going to call your show We Can Be Heroes, well, for many of us it's almost impossible not to follow that up with "just for one day" in honour of the classic David Bowie song. But as Anna Krauze tells us, it has nothing really to do with that, but rather it's a newly written play about what it means to be a superhero. Which all sounds rather intriguing doesn't it...

We have a soft spot for gig theatre, at least gig theatre when it is done right. So when Rona Johnstone and Katie Slater got in touch to tell us not just about their Edinburgh Fringe bound show, Mary: A Gig Theatre Show, but also that they had done some research into gig theatre as part of their degree course, how could we not want to chat with them about it all. So, as well as telling us all abou...

We're joined for this week's edition by writer Niamh O'Donnell, director Anna Millington and RamPage Theatre AD and producer Rachel McKay, who are bringing new show Cianalas to King's Head Theatre at the end of July as part of Camden Fringe. Cianalas tells the story of a community’s resistance to mass evictions during the Highland Clearances – one of the darkest moments of Scotland...

Our latest guest is Jessie-Wren Jacobs, who is getting ready to take her show, This Porno Does Not Pass the Bechdel test, to Edinburgh Fringe. Although before then, she is making a quick stop off at Camden's Etcetera Theatre in July. Describing her show as a feminist tragicomedy, Jessie-Wren tells us what the Bechdel test is and why it actually doesn't have a massive amount to do with the...