Take A Chair: talking theatre and creativity

A recording of the monthly gathering of our scoraíochting in Schull, Co Cork – coming together to share songs, stories and craic.  Support the show

This podcast was originally designed as a live event performed in August 2022 in the Ellen Hutchins Festival. The script is devised by performer and writer Karen Minihan and Finola Finlay (Roaringwater Journal) from Ellen's correspondence with fellow botanist, Dawson Turner.  This edited version includes Karen reading extracts from Ellen’s correspondence, with context and notes provided by Fi...

On 10th July, 2021, eight of the original cast members of  Amadeus  attended a workshop in a garden on a fantastic summer's day. The individual work--performance, writing and recording--ultimately became the focus of the day. All the work came from the atmosphere and collective creativity involved in the original production of Amadeus in 2019--hence the name, Amadeus: Reflected , for the exhi...

On the 10th July, 2021, at the end of the workshop in the garden, we did some group work, recreating the Venticelli groups from the original  2019 Amadeus  production. This is an experiment--having fun with words and sounds. Support the show

There are many areas in which Ger FizGibbon has been prominent in theatre in Cork city–-as one of those responsible for setting up and becoming the Head of Department of Theatre and Drama Studies as a director and writer for theatre in Cork. We focus a lot in this discussion on the city and how the theatre scene has evolved over the past 50 years–-the struggles, the achievements, the politics, the...

With twenty-five years experience in the film and writing business, Jeremy Massey gives an oversight of his creative process in working through many screenplays, one novel, published by Penguin US, The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckle y, an historical novel in writing, Isolato and another in progress, Paddy Buckley's Dance with the Devil . He discusses his use of structure and form; how he came...

A long-term co-creator with Karen Minihan, this chat with Terri Leiber is the third in the Series, and the final member of the PlayActing Theatre group. As well as acting in classic plays where Karen was the director, they have collaborated as writers and actors since 2011 in The Eileen and Marilyn Experience on six different comedy / cabaret shows and other performances. They say they were '...

This podcast features Karen Minihan in conversation with Alyn Fenn, a writer and painter, and   a creative collaborator with Karen for over twenty years in projects which included: street theatre, an arts festival, in PlayActing Theatre and other theatre projects as well as many community arts projects. Linking to Blog 2 in the series, entitled 'Vision, inspiration...and enchantment', th...

The first interview in the podcast Series 1 is with Julia Zagar, friend and co-creator of Karen Minihan's for over 20 years. They have worked on many projects together, especially with PlayActing Theatre, a company that has involved their creative input with Alyn Fenn, artist and writer and Terri Leiber, actor and writer. In the conversation, Julia chats with Karen about her creative practice...