Persistent and Nasty

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...

To all our LGBTQIA+ listeners and allies. We celebrate you every day, all year round but we hope that you are embracing everything about your amazing self and your incredible community which we are a part of and support with everything we have. HAPPY PRIDE one and all. Today Elaine chats with the lovely actor, musician Sara Rae. They discuss everything from growing up Queer in Glasgow and from a c...

Today Elaine chats with the utterly brilliant and joyful Louise McCarthy. We talk being Scottish and training in London, being working class in this industry, being an actor and a mum and how to balance that. We also talk about being true to yourself. A brilliant, fun chat with an even more brilliant human. LOUISE McCARTHY Training: Arts Educational London. Theatre credits: Mamma Mia (Prince of Wa...

Today it’s part 2 of 2 with the utterly wonderful Sarah Miele. Elaine and Sarah chat further about success and the culture of “not getting too big for your boots” when that success does come and how this is more towards women. We talk about the extensive talent of Scottish women who are not being seen and how this needs to be called out more and these performers should be given their space in this...

Today we have part 1 of 2 with the utterly wonderful Sarah Miele. Elaine and Sarah chat different roots into the industry the big shift in roles for women as soon as they hit a certain age bracket to the challenges of drama school & the tools you need when you leave to keep you mentally healthy in a industry full of rejection and knock backs. SARAH MIELE Sarah Miele is an award-winning actor, thea...

In response to all your lovely comments to our episode of last week. We are doing a little part two of what does Persistent and Nasty mean to you. We have picked specific episodes to share in light of all that’s going on in the world. Lorna King Episode Lily O'Farrell Episode 4th Birthday Episode Mental Health In Performing Arts LINKTREE P&N Linktr PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/persistent...

Today we revisit some of our wonderful guests telling us what Persistent and Nasty means to them. Below is the list of the guests and the Soundcloud link to their episode. You can of course get each episode on all podcast platforms. Get ready to re-listen to the brilliant Georgi Banks-Davies Episode Link Ashlee Haze Episode Link Kate Dickie Episode Link Nelly Kelly Episode Link Kyra Jones Episode...

Today Elaine chats with playwright Julie Tsang. We discuss the benefits of being an actor before becoming a writer. The ups and downs of being a creative generally and during the pandemic and about finding what your passion is at any age. JULIE TSANG Julie Tsang is an award-winning writer currently on residencies with the National Theatre of Scotland, Open Clasp Theatre, Edinburgh International Fi...

Episode 117: Vivien Reid & Mhairi Calvey by Persistent and Nasty

Today it’s a through back to MAY 2020 Have a great bank holiday everyone and stay well. *** In today’s episode Elaine and Misha chat over Zoom to Production Designer Jamie Lapsley. Hot topics included: the importance design has to the whole production, stepping into yourself completely and the patriarchy and masculinity and its effect on us all. Jamie’s new show We Hunt Together is now on Alibi. T...

Episode 115: Éimi Quinn by Persistent and Nasty

This week Elaine chats with the inspirational Valerie Edmond. We cover so much in today’s episode. Everything from the outdated views on the physical appearance of actresses, to knowing your worth in an industry that doesn’t always encourage you to value your own time and effort to embracing and loving where you come from. As well as the importance of being an artist and remembering to always say...

This week Elaine chats with the brilliant, funny Laura Lovemore. We chat growing up in Scotland from a working-class background, imposter syndrome, the happiness we feel being in a rehearsal space and on stage. Our hatred of the “what’s next for you” question and an important discussion about Scotland dealing and admitting it’s past with the slave trade. Remember to us your stories of the women wh...