Chichester Festival Theatre Podcast

To mark Children's Mental Health Week 2021, we celebrated the theme 'Express Yourself' by inviting Prologue members aged 16-30 to submit creative responses to what it means to be them, right here, right now. Prologue is CFT's free membership scheme for 16-30 year olds that gives you £5 tickets to productions, exclusive events and creative opportunities. Find out more and sign up at cft.org.uk/prol...

Backbone By Louis Turner Secrets, lies, evidence… and Pamela. Cast: Henry Pettigrew (Quiz) as A, and Ashley Zhangazha (The Country Wife) as B. Back in March we started our Five Day Plays; writers were invited to submit a play they'd written, the only rules being that the play could not exceed 10 pages and it had to match our weekly brief. After ten weeks, over 300 entries and ten winners, the seri...

Blue Moon By David Kinder Cast: Lucy Briers (Forty Years On, Young Chekhov) as Anushka, and Keir Charles (Quiz) as Simon. Sparks fly when the past catches up with a left wing journalist and a Tory politician at a party conference gala. Back in March we started our Five Day Plays; writers were invited to submit a play they'd written, the only rules being that the play could not exceed 10 pages and...

Rockpool By Alexander Wiseman A young man is drawn irresistibly back to the seashore, but a strange encounter leads to a revelation. Cast: Adam Buchanan (The Butterfly Lion) as B and Nicola Sloane (Flowers for Mrs Harris, The Butterfly Lion) as A. Back in March we started our Five Day Plays; writers were invited to submit a play they'd written, the only rules being that the play could not exceed 1...

Signs of Life By Hannah Crouch Mary Shelley has a horror story to write. But is she creator or creature? Cast: Keir Charles (Quiz) as Frankenstein, Olivia Dickens (CFYT’s The Wizard of Oz) as Young Mary, Dickon Gough (The Midnight Gang) as William & Creature, Grace Molony (The Watsons) as Mary, and Ashley Zhangazha (The Country Wife) as Percy. Back in March we started our Five Day Plays; writers w...

Multi-award winning author, poet, playwright and librettist Michael Morpurgo, and British actress, author and campaigner Virginia McKenna, talk to Kate Mosse and share extracts from one of Michael’s favourite books, The Butterfly Lion. Recorded in The Spiegeltent, Tuesday 15 October 2019

In this episode celebrating International Women's Day, Helena Jacques-Morton and Elspeth Barron speak to our Executive Director, Kathy Bourne, Yvonne Thomson, CEO of UK Harvest and Sally Tabbner, Chief Executive of Dementia Support, Chichester. Recorded at Chichester Festival Theatre Music by Ted Hayes

Roger McGough is the author of over one hundred books of poetry for adults and children. His exuberant new collection of poems explores the human experience in all its shades of light and dark but always with a signature wit, irreverence and vivacity. This new show, with poems set to music by LiTTLe MACHiNe, features a fine selection of vintage, classic and surprising poems. 'Brilliantly entertain...

Welcome to the Chichester Festival Theatre Podcast, hosted by George Bailey. In this episode we'll be discussing the Chichester Spiegeltent, a new venue for Chichester this autumn. So sit back, relax and enjoy what we've got in store for you.

Welcome to the Chichester Festival Theatre Podcast, hosted by George Bailey. We'll be discussing everything CFT related from Festival 2018, to the history, from famous creatives to the backstage crew and beyond. Sit back, relax and enjoy what we've got in store for you.

In this episode, we speak to Michael Morpurgo about the new adaptation of his much-loved, award-winning novel The Butterfly Lion, which opens in the Minerva Theatre on 5 October 2019. Recorded at Chichester Festival Theatre. Music by Ted Hayes

In this episode, we speak to Daniel Hill (director) and David Lewington (Music and Sound Designer)of Crossing Lines by Anna Ledwich, our Chichester Festival Youth Theatre promenade production for Festival 2019. Crossing Lines runs 17 - 24 August. Recorded at Chichester Rugby Club. Music by Ted Hayes

In this episode, we speak to Bronté Barbé, Isaac Gryn and Emmanuel Kojo, who are all in the summer centrepiece of Festival 2019, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, which runs in the Festival Theatre until 7 September 2019. Recorded at Chichester Festival Theatre Music: Chichester Festival Theatre Production of Oklahoma! 2019

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An exclusive recording of Hadley Fraser singing 'Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes', accompanied by Debbie Wiseman. Hadley Fraser plays Freddie Page in the Festival 2019 production of The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan and Debbie Wiseman composed the music. Please note this version does not feature in the production.

Tapestries was a 10 week collaboration between Chichester Festival Theatre and the clients of Stonepillow Hostel, Chichester. Over the course of the project, eight clients participated in writing or recording sessions to create a radio play. The piece is a collection of stories and memories centred around the themes of the past, present and future to mark Stonepillow’s 30th Anniversary in 2019.

In this episode, we speak to Clare Burt, who is appearing in This Is My Family by Tim Firth, which opened Festival 2019 and runs in the Minerva Theatre until 15 June 2019. Recorded at Chichester Festival Theatre. Music by Ted Hayes

In this special episode in front of a live studio audience, we speak to Executive Director Kathy Bourne, Hugh Bonneville, Clare Burt, Rachel Lumberg, Scott Folan and Kirsty MacLaren from This Is My Family about a number of topics suggested by Prologue members aged 16-25. This was one of our FREE events for Prologue members in the Festival 2019 season, and was organised by our Prologue Ambassadors...

In this episode, we speak to Hugh Bonneville and Liz White, who are both appearing in Shadowlands by William Nicholson, which runs in the Festival Theatre until 25 May 2019 and is part of the Festival 2019 season. Recorded at Chichester Festival Theatre. Music by Ted Hayes

In this episode, we chat to some of our Prologue ambassadors about Festival 2019 and Prologue itself - our scheme for 16-25 year olds to get £5 tickets to all of our productions. Prologue members also have access to exclusive events, and it's free to sign up! ​ Recorded at Chichester Festival Theatre. Music by Ted Hayes

In this episode, hear all about Chichester Festival Youth Theatre, the largest youth theatre in the UK with over 800 members engaged in weekly sessions across West Sussex. We caught up with Lauren Grant (Deputy Director of Learning, Education and Participation), Poppy Marples (Senior Youth Theatre Officer) and Mia Cunningham-Stockdale (Youth Theatre Apprentice) about their roles and what it's like...

In this episode, we're discussing Chichester Festival Youth Theatre's Christmas production of Sleeping Beauty, which runs in the Festival Theatre from 15 - 30 December 2018. Hear Rufus Norris, the writer and now director of the National Theatre speak about his adaptation of the original story, along with the director of our production Lucy Betts who is an ex-member of CFYT, followed by an intervie...

In this special episode, we speak to Bridget Norman who is a registered blind theatregoer, all about Touch Tours, Audio Description and Access Performances at Chichester Festival Theatre. Recorded at Chichester Festival Theatre. Music by Ted Hayes

In this episode, we speak to Mike Bartlett, writer of Cock which plays in the Minerva Theatre until 27 October. Hear Mike speak about his career, playwriting and the Radio Times. Recorded at Chichester Festival Theatre. Music by Ted Hayes

In this episode, we speak to Daniel Evans, Artistic Director of CFT and Director of our summer musical Me and My Girl, and Gareth Valentine, Musical Supervisor, Musical Director and Musical Arrangements. Recorded at Chichester Festival Theatre. Music by Ted Hayes