The Everything Theatre Interviews

Leah Brotherhead chats about her role in upcoming play, Some Demon, which takes us to an eating disorder unit. We discuss what it's like to tackling such themes as eating disorders, the differences in playing on the West End and smaller intimate venues, and why you should never ask an actor what they are doing next! Some Demon plays at Arcola Theatre from 14 June to 6 July, and then Bristol Ol...

This week we're talking all things Wandsworth Arts Fringe, which is heading back to the borough for 17 days and nights over June. Here to tell us more of what to expect is Festival Producer Cath Mattos, along with Dodomu's Tom Sargeant and Nataliya Kharina, who are Associate Producers taking charge of The Arches at St Mary's Church. We chat about the festival and what to expect, what A...

Our latest guest is Sam Smithson, whose show, Taking A Love Pill At The End of The World, is about to open at The Hope Theatre. As Sam tells us very early on, the show is very much all about what the title suggests, it's about two people who are given the option to take a love pill whilst the world is coming to an end! But thankfully, there's a lot more to it than that, or this would have...

Sierra Sevilla is a woman on a mission. And that mission is to convince us that spam (the food not the junk email) is worthy of another chance. For too long us Brits, as well as many other countries around the world, have scoffed at spam as just a cheap food from a forgotten era. But to Sierra it's much more than that, it's a memory of her home country, the tiny island of Guam, and it'...

This week we chat to Nicholas, Nieve and Nadia, who make up Midnight Circle. Having already made immersive shows based on Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray, they are now turning their hand to M.R. James' Ghost Stories of An Antiquary, a series of ghost stories originally published in 1904, but here moved to the 1940s during the Blitz. We chat about the show, what their immersive mean...

If your show is called Pansexual Pregnant Piracy, it probably goes without saying that things are going to get a little silly. And that's just what we got when we sat down with Eleanor Colville, Ro Suppa, Robbie Taylor Hunt, the trio who make up Airlock Theatre. Pansexual Pregnant Piracy is the story of eighteenth-century pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, although it's probably not giving...

This week's guest is Kieran Dee, one half of Moon Loaf. We're big fans of their work, so always pleased when we get the chance to chat with Kieran, although that's usually when we bump into him all too regularly at Lion and Unicorn Theatre. But this week was planned and recorded! Moon Loaf are about to bring their latest show, Insult To Injury, to Lion and Unicorn. The show is a dark s...

We welcome back writer Nina Atesh to the podcast. Nina has appreared twice before, once to talk about her play The Drought, and a second time to discuss GrimFest. This time she is joined by director Chloe Cattin, the pair here to tell us about their latest work Horne's Descent, a dark new drama exploring the destruction of man, set against the backdrop of a broken England, trying desperately t...

We've been massive fans of Conrad Murray's work for a number of years. His work with Batterseas Arts Centre's Beat Boxing Academy alone would be enough in itself, but Conrad has also devised shows that uses all his beatboxing and rap skills in creating new exciting ways to tell a story. So when we bumped into him at the recent OffWestEnd Awards, where he won for best TYA Production, it...

When Mimi Collins moved to the UK from the States, she brought with her a little piece of Bespoke Plays , a theatre group dedicated to giving new writing the chance to be heard via their staged readings. Bespoke already put on readings in New York and L.A. but now Mimi has added a third string to their bow with London. Their first show, Water Party , performed to a sold our Union Theatre and, if a...

Burnt Orange Theatre is an award winning youth theatre company championing the voices of young creatives across London. They work collaboratively, consciously and cleverly to create new and boundary-pushing theatre for young people, by young people. Right now, that includes their inaugural REP Company Season, which means taking a group of 16 - 21 year old's and putting them through their paces...

When we were offered the opportunity to chat to Leah Vassell about performing in Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World , it seemed obvious that we really needed a woman to do the interview! So we asked Lucy Boardman, who had reviewed the show in Edinburgh in 2022. It probably helped that she had given it 5 stars at the time, and so was more than willing to take over the mic for this one....

For our latest podcast, we sat down with Joseph Derrington, who is getting ready to hit the road with Blackeyed Theatre, in their latest production, Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear. Joseph will be reprising his role of Dr Watson, a role he first played in their production of The Sign of Four. This time out the show takes them from Bakers Street all the way to the bleak Pennsylvanian Vermissa V...

Our first podcast guest of 2024 is Nell Hardy from Response Ability Theatre (RAT). RAT's new play, I, Lord , tackles the difficult subject of spiritual abuse. It's a term that perhaps many of us don't quite understand its meaning, but Nell helpfully explains what it means. As well as that, we discuss what to expect from the play, what it is they hope to achieve with it, and why they ar...

We were graced with two West End stars for our latest podcast, in the forms of Tanisha Spring and Dom Simpson, who are currently starring in Moulin Rouge. Tanisha and Dom sat down with Lily Middleton to talk about their careers, offer some advice to those who want to fill their shoes one day, and just how you manage your life when you're working six evenings a week!

It wouldn't be Christmas without some festive horror to enjoy on stage. And this year that is being provided by Jacob Lovick & Jack Robertson, writers of Midwyntar. To find out more, we caught up with Jack to chat about the show, how we should pronounce the title, and just why seeing the show on its final night could be a murderous occasion! Midwyntar plays at Old Red Lion 12 - 22 December...

This week we are chatting to writer and director Roxy Cook. Roxy's debut play, A Woman Walks Into A Bank, won the 2023 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, and is now about to be performed for the first time. The play's initial idea came from an incident that happened to Roxy's grandmother, when she really did walk into a bank, but from there, the story is a work of fiction, exp...

This week we were joined by Megan Brewer and Mikko Juan, Artistic Directors of Halfpace Theatre Company. The pair are about to bring their new devised show Transit to The Space. Drawn from the lived experience of marginalised artists, Transit explores cycles of violence and the toxic systems that push our communities to the margins. Dynamic, migrant-led company Halfpace Theatre comes out swinging...

Joe Facer & Adam Sandy are founders and artistic directors of To The Ocean , a company aiming to build a collection of stories, within theatre, film and tv, exploring narratives rooted in reality but often existing in a world with a touch of the fantastical.  Right now, they are putting the finishing touches to Alex and Maggie Go Ghost Hunting , which will be playing at The Space from 31 Octob...

October is always the time when the ghosts and ghouls appear on the stage, and we are all for it here at ET. So it was a horrific pleasure to get to spend time with Nina Atesh and Jack Roberston, who are curating the second edition of GrimFest. GrimFest is a celebration of all things slightly creepy. It first appeared in 2022 to fill the void left when London Horror Festival didn't appear. And...

We've been big fans of Make It Beautiful Theatre since day one. We were lucky enough to catch their first ever show, The Co-op, and happily gave it all five stars in our review, and said we were "finding it hard to fault Make it Beautiful Theatre’s debut production and am already looking forward to their next one." We've seen the team go from strength to strength, so were delight...

We caught up with Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman for this week's interview. Daveed and Nobu are the creators of Choir! Choir! Choir!, and they are just about to bring the show to the UK from their homeland of Canada. With Choir! Choir! Choir! they travel around the world bringing friends, foes, and strangers together to sing the greatest songs of all time. All you have to do is show up and th...

We chat to Harrison Cole, one of the founders of The Defectors. Harrison and the Defectors team have recently completed a run at Camden Fringe for Defective Inspector: A Stitch in Time, the follow up to the original Defective Inspector show. Next they are putting together Scratch n’ Sniff, a scratch night at Bread and Roses Theatre as part of Clapham Fringe. We chat about the success of the Defect...

Our guest this week is Jacob Newton. You may have come across Jacob if you've ever been to Lion and Unicorn Theatre as he is very often one of the cheerful people greeting you as you head in for your next theatre fix. But right now Jacob has other things on his mind, primarily, his debut play, Breast-baring, which will be playing at, well, you can guess where! Breast-baring introduces us to An...

Our latest interview finds a change of host, as Amelia Braddick sits in the hot seat to chat with Alexander S. Bermange. Alexander's latest work is I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical, which is currently playing at Wilton's Music Hall. But Alexander has a rich history in theatre, so we couldn't let him go without delving into his vast experience. I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical is on...