Persistent and Nasty

Today Elaine and Louise chat actor and intersectional feminist, the legend that is Kate Dickie. This is an absolute joy of an episode we cover so much. Kate shares stories from her films, her thoughts on the craft and so much more. We are her biggest fans because not only is she an incredible actor she is the most wonderful, generous, kind human there is. Kate Dickie Kate is a Scottish actor who t...

Today Elaine chats with visual artist/theatre maker Philippa Tomlin. We discuss all things spooky, the importance of community theatre, how in the moment young people are when performing, the joy of coming back to your creative flow and of course horror movies. Phil currently has an exhibition at 13thnote.co.uk Glasgow till end of November 2022. Philippa Tomlin Philippa Tomlin (Phil she/her) is a...

Today Elaine chats puppeteer, performer, and playwright Megan Rose Thomas. We discuss drama schools, being a disabled performer, mental health and how that is a key part of Meg’s writing. As it’s spooky season we chat all things horror as well. Megan Rose Thomas Megan Rose Thomas is a Huddersfield-born, Glasgow-based actor, puppeteer and occasional magician. She's currently transitioning into play...

Today Elaine chats with writer/producer Nina Atesh. They discuss all things horror, the lack of opportunities for working class artist to be able to afford drama schools and how we are losing those voices and the freedom the horror genre gives us. Nina’s new play The Drought is play Old Red Lion Theatre tickets available here Tickets Nina Atesh Nina is a playwright who recently set up her own prod...

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Today Elaine chats with director/writer Kelly Holmes. They discuss all things horror, the process of getting a film made and their love of cinema. Both Kelly and Elaine happened to be wearing the same t-shirt when they met via zoom. The brilliant Eat The Patriarchy tees from the great The Spark Company Kelly Holmes Director | Writer Kelly Holmes is inspired to make genre films that have a real emo...

IT’S SPOOKY SEASON Elaine chats with the wonderful Scottish actress and singer Therese Bradley. The two chat everything from horror movies, to rediscovering your joy. Motherhood and in particular coming back to the industry after having a baby and being a carer in the many different forms that role takes for a child or for elderly relatives. Therese Bradley Scottish actor and singer. Who has worke...

Today Elaine and Louise chat with the brilliant playwright Sara Shaarawi. They chat Sara’s new play Sister Radio which is touring Scotland right now and is a co-production between Stellar Quines and Pitlochry Theatre . The play is about Sisters Fatemeh and Shirin have been living together, in the same flat in Edinburgh, for 43 years. In this flat they cook, read their coffee grains, listen to the...

IT’S SPOOKY SEASON Elaine and Louise chat with the incredible Jordan & Skinner. Otherwise known as theatre maker Melanie Jordan and director and artistic director of Stellar Quines Caitlin Skinner. We chat about their new show THE TIME MACHINE (click for tickets/date/venues). A feminist retelling. The four have a brilliant and inspiring conversation Melanie Jordan Melanie is an actor, director and...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Elaine chats to the creators of Two Fingers Up Gina Donnelly and Seòn Simpson. How the show came to be, sex education, female masturbation. The pleasure if enjoying your own body and more. TW: there is mention of an assault case from Northern Ireland. Two Fingers Up What do you remember of sex education and puberty? Or at least, what can you remember that...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Elaine chats with director Katie Jackson about their new play Visiting Cezanne. We chat the industry as a whole, coming through the pandemic, being nonbinary in the arts and much more. Visiting Cezanne How does an artist keep going when all seems hopeless? Seeking an answer, a failed artist in New York visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016. From th...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Elaine chats with director Jen McGregor and actor Catherine Bissett about their new play The Masks of Oscar Wilde. A great conversation about covering many things from queer culture to pushing buttons with theatre to make people really think. The Masks of Oscar Wilde Man of letters. Aesthete. Victorian moralist. Playwright. Oscar Wilde wore many masks. But...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Elaine chats with Celeste Cahn. Celeste is a writer performer for America. We chat Celeste’s new play, women pleasure and much more. A Lady Does Not Scratch Her Crotch Once upon a time, there was a young girl – not a princess or a pretty girl waiting to be one. No dress fanned out as she sat. She could barely sit in a dress. She saw no happily ever after o...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Elaine chats with Emilia and Meg Beech of The Oxford Bells. An A Capella group bring fierce feminist songs to the Edinburgh fringe. We talk feminist songs, what singing, and music means to us and how our feminism is moving and should always be inclusive. I’ll Tell You Mine A musical coming-of-age journey. There’s a song for every stage of life, and for eve...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Elaine and Louise chat with creative and producer of Remedy For Memory Tell Letham and Robyn Jancovich-Brown. We talk influencers, the good the bad and the ugly of this industry and the joy of loving yourself and learning to not give a fuck. REMEDY FOR MEMORY Beautiful people.... Have you been seeking, dreaming? Of something more, something less, something...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Elaine chats with director Nell Bailey about How to Build a Wax Figure. We discuss everything form age-gap relationships to queer love to the lack of visibility for lesbian and bisexuals on stage and screen HOW TO BUILD A WAX FIGURE Girl meets anatomical wax sculptor. Anatomical wax sculptor meets girl. They fall in love. Or something like that. Bea's olde...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Louise and Elaine chat Ania Upstill over Zoom. A clown bringing their show Transhumance to the Festival for the first time. We chat moving from directing to clowning and the gender binary. Classic Hold onto your hats as a cast of 6 romp through all those classic novels you never had time to read. In 60 minutes and multiple costume changes the company race...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Louise and Elaine chat Ania Upstill over Zoom. A clown bringing their show Transhumance to the Festival for the first time. We chat moving from directing to clowning and the gender binary. Transhumance Take a surreal journey through the landscape of gender with Transhumance, winner of a Best Weekly Award for Circus and Physical Theatre at Adelaide Fringe i...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Today Louise and Elaine chat with writer, performer Sophie Bentinck about her new show Pauline. Pauline is a comedy drama about Sophie’s own family. Important conversation with another wonderful human. PAULINE A new comedy drama about finding your nan’s suicide note by award-winning writer and performer Sophie Bentinck. Pauline is the brutally honest and j...

Episode 5 of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Today Louise and Elaine with the creatives and cast of Blood Harmony at the Traverse Theatre. Our first in person Podcast recording since February 2020. BLOOD HARMONY When siblings sing together, the music is special. All the more beautiful for the bond between them, it’s called a blood harmony. Sisters Anna, Maia, and Chloe have lost their mu...

Episode 4 of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Today Louise and Elaine chat with F-Bomb Theatre – Sally Cairns and Rachel O’Regan about their new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show The Beatles Were A Boyband. #femifringe ˚femifringe The Beatles Were A Boyband After moving to London to live within a more diverse community, Livia learns that the self-hate feelings she experienced all her life ar...

Episode 3 of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Today Louise and Elaine chat with performer, spoken word poet, writer, vocalist, sword swallower Livia Kojo Alour about her new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Black Sheep. BLACK SHEEP After moving to London to live within a more diverse community, Livia learns that the self-hate feelings she experienced all her life are internalised racism and...

Episode 2 of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 series Today Louise chats with playwright, performer and director Isla Cowan about her new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show SHE WOLF. Along with chatting about Isla’s activism and her process. SHE WOLF A fierce, ferocious monologue about getting f*cked over and fighting your way back. Spoken by a woman hiding out at the zoo, She Wolf tears open questio...

In the first of our episodes covering the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Louise talks to the incredible Rosy Carrick about her new show, Musclebound. Following her multi award-winning theatre debut, Passionate Machine, Rosy Carrick is back. When bodybuilders and 80s action films unite, you can always count on a good hard flogging! And, for a young Rosy, witnessing characters like He-Man and Conan...

Today Elaine chats with the brilliant writer, engineer and activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied. We are thrilled to have Yassmin back on the podcast. Yassmin and Elaine discuss her new book TALKING ABOUT A REVO-LUTION. Which is a collection of Yassmin’s essays over the last 10 years. We also discuss how the western world is still dealing with the Thatcher/Reagan era. The loss of community, intergeneratio...