The Everything Theatre Interviews

How To Kill Your Landlord is certainly a provocative title, and so befitting of a show that is going to be making its way to Edinburgh this August, with a quick stop off at Drayton Arms Theatre (20 and 21 July) for a quick tune up beforehand. Harry Conway's show places three very different characters in a house share, and as the title suggests, they begin to plan their dastardly deed. As we di...

James Haddrell discusses his role as Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre With the announcement of two exciting additions to their 2025 programme, plus their usual high quality Christmas Panto, it felt like a great time to chat with James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre. Frm starting as Press Officer in 2001, James has worked his way up the ladder in his 20+ years with Greenwich...

Emmy Happisburgh grew up when the rave scene was very much at its peak in the early 90s. And it's that time and place that she has returned to with her show Second Summer of Love , described as one-woman’s first-hand trip celebrating the early 90’s UK rave scene. We chat with Emmy about the show and how her experiences of that time inspired it, how the show has developed from a one-woman show...

Elegy Theatre talk about The Experiment It's nearly four years since we first came across Elegy Theatre , with Truth/Reconciliation . Since then they have been busy putting on some amazing work, and are now all set to present The Experiment at Golden Goose Theatre (17 - 21 June). The Experiment takes us into the lives of Sadie and Will, a couple who are thrilled that their brief experiment wit...

Tip Top Theatre Collective chat about God, The Devil and Me We're always trying to expand our coverage outside of the usual London bubble, and one way of doing that is by chatting to those theatre makers who operate outside of the M25. So when we heard from Tip Top Theatre Collective we really wanted to find out more. Whilst they might be bringing their latest show, God, The Devil and Me to Lo...

Bridge House Theatre's Artistic Director Luke Adamson joins us to chat about both the venue and it's upcoming show, Penge West . Having now been in charge at the venue for four years, we chat about what lead him here, the importance of fringe venues in the community, and why it is safe to head south of the river. Their upcoming show, Penge West, is an attempt to bring the classic soap oper...

The Hope Theatre's Co-Artistic Directors Laurel Marks and Toby Hampton Just over a year ago, there was a fear we'd be losing one of our amazing pub theatres when The Hope Theatre announced its closure. But thankfully it never happened, with Laurel Marks and Toby Hampton arriving to save the day. A year on from officially taking over as co-Artistic Directors, we caught up with them to find...

Our latest guest includes the return of Sam Smithson, who last year was telling us all about his show Taking A Love Pill At the End of the World. This time around he is joined by Cameron Wilson, who together make up Not Quite Ready Productions. They are in full preparation to bring a fresh production of Martin Crimp's Attempts On Her Life to Hen and Chicken Theatre later in June. The play, fir...

Back at the very start of 2023 Eleanor Hill spoke to us about Sad-vents , a show we called "visually impressive" in our 4 star review . In the two years since, she's been rather busy. After her run at VAULT Festival , she then took the show to Edinburgh. And then started to work on her new show, Overshare . Oh and found time for some neurosurgery after expeirencing a medical emergenc...

Whilst most of our podcasts are supporting specific upcoming shows, it's always fun to do something a little different. And that's what this latest edition is. Because we're chatting to Matthew Parker - director, actor, PR, and well, just about anything else that is needed to get a show on to the stage. Above all that, just an all round lovely fellow. We chat to Matthew about his caree...

We came across Bespoke Plays in 2024 when Mimi Collins put on their first London show, a staged reading of her own play The Water Party . What we soon found out was that Bespoke Plays is a transatlantic venture, having been brought to London by Mimi in partnership with its LA founders. So the chance to chat about those LA origins with Mimi and one of Bespoke's founders, Ellie Pyle was somethin...

We do love a good tag line, and that's just what our latest guests are Libby Boyd and Ruby Blue Tansey-Thomas , who make up two-thirds of Themis Theatre , gave us for their upcoming show, Schrödinger's Lesbians . RIght now they are working on bringing the show to Waterloo's The Glitch, having previously played as part of last year's Camden Fringe. Structured around the fragmented w...

Synergy Theatre Project is more than just a theatre company. Formed over 20 years ago they work across theatre and the criminal justice system, including within prisons putting on work with prisoners, whilst the shows they put on will often include ex-prisoners in both the cast and creative roles. That's certainly true of their next show, Providers, a new play about family, money and what we d...

Emma Wilkinson Wright and Greg Wilkinson discuss The Last Days of Liz Truss. Poor Liz Truss, forever to be remembered for her failures and not the amazing work she did in promoting Britain's pork markets! But maybe that's all about to change with Greg Wilkinson 's The Last Days of Liz Truss surely here to correct the record on her behalf? Well, ok, maybe not... The Last Days of Liz Tru...

Chris Fung is about to bring his show, The Society for New Cuisine, to Omnibus Theatre, a show that asks " What would you give for a taste of new understanding?" Chris will be known to many for his West End work, including roles in Frozen and Cyrano de Bergerac, but as we discuss, this is his first foray into writing. We also chat about the delights of fringe theatre and how it differs f...

Sometimes a show pops up that says it is based on a true story, but well, you have to double check these things when they sound so ridiculous. And that is exactly what we had to do before we sat down with writer Nikhil Vyas to chat about The Mosinee Project, which is coming to New Diorama Theatre from 11 March. The Mosinee Project tells the true story of a fake invasion, when in 1950 a small town...

Not heard of Mary De Morgan? Don't worry, we have to admit most of us here at ET hadn't either, but that's all about to change as we chat to Claire Parker about her show The Vegan Tigress . Mary De Morgan was a writer, a woman of independent means, a socialist and an activist. She wrote several volumes of fairy tales, tearing up the rule book on expected outcomes for boys, girls and ha...

There's an old saying about making the best out of a bad situation, and that's just what the team at MARIA WHO? seem to have done with Miss Brexit. Framing the show as a beauty contest, with the winner given a chance to remain in the UK, Miss Brexit takes a playful look at what it is like to be a migrant in a country that at times seems not to want them here. We chat to co-director Amaia M...

It's always lovely to chat to old friends, and that's just what this week's podcast is. David Brady, Artistic Director of Lion and Unicorn Theatre and Proforca Theatre, has been a guest at least three times before, but that's no reason not to ask him back because he is always a lot of fun. This time it's to chat about their latest work And If The Surface Tension Breaks, a show...

Our latest guests are Jamie Sefton and Alex McKeon, who together make up Mirror Up Productions. Jamie has been a guest before, previously to chat about A Thousand Sons, a show about the ongoing battle for veterans of the nuclear testings of the 1950s to receive recognition and acknowledgement of what happened at that time. He has now formed Mirror Up with Alex, and are just about to put on Reflect...

Craig Henry joins us to chat about his new play, Her Country, following four young people navigating the early stages of their careers during a time of national upheaval. And yes, those four are made up of a librarian, a civil servant and two journalists. But as far as we're aware, they don't all arive at the theatre together, although you can catch them all when the show plays at The Hope Theatre...

When you call your show Thanks For Having Me, well, the intros just write themselves. But the show is more than just a clever title, as we found out when we sat down with writer/ performer Keelan Kember and director Monica Cox. Thanks For Having Me is a comedy about getting over breakups and navigating the rules of modern romance at the end of your twenties. Who is really seducing who? We discuss...

For some of us, October means one thing - the chance to get some good horror stories on the stage. But for the rest of the year, well, we can feel a little neglected. Which is why we were delighted to hear from Monkey Cymbals, the theatre company of Claire Louise Amias and Jonathan Rigby, to let us know that their show Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit was making a return to the st...

Georgie Henley , best known for her role as Lucy Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia , and more recently, The Diplomat (Netflix) and Partygate (Channel 4), will be performing in the Philip Ridley monologue Tarantula at Arcola Theatre throughout January. She first performed the show online for Southwark Playhouse in 2021, but it is now set for its live premiere. We caught up with Georgie during re...

Lydia Kavanagh and Chloe Cattin join us to chat about their new show Deck The Stalls. We're always delighted to welcome back previous podcast guests, and that's what we have this week with the return of director Chloe Cattin . And this time around Chloe brings with her writer Lydia Kavanagh , whose latest play is Deck The Stalls. It won't surprise you to know it's directed by Chloe! Deck The Stall...