The Everything Theatre Interviews

We were joined this week by Laura Sampson, whose show, Hide, will be playing at VAULT Festival Saturday 25 February, and then Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 March. Tickets are available here We chat about the shows themes of identity, and how the show mixes together fairytale and modern day, using the Lindworm story as an analogy of Laura's own life. We also discuss spoken word and story telling in gener...

Our latest guest on our Runn Radio show was Stephen Leach. Stephen is the writer and director of Can't Wait To Leave, his debut full length play that will be coming to Waterloo East Theatre from 21 February.  Can't Wait To Leave introduces us to 19 year old Ryan, a school drop-out and turkey sandwich enthusiast. New to London, when the one person he thought he could rely on ups and leaves, Ry...

Our latest guest on our Runn Radio show was Mahad Ali , who joined us to talk about his play My Brother's Keeper . Based in a seaside town, two brothers find themselves living in a hotel whilst awaiting a decision on their refugee status. But it is not just a story about refugees, it is a story of love, pain and learning in building community. It's certainly a timely play in today's climate, even...

Our latest guest on our Runn Radio show was Claire Parry. Claire is about to bring her latest show, Boorish Trumpson to this year’s VAULT Festival. In it she plays Boorish Trumpson, a power-grabbing rehearsal conductor who will stop at nothing to gain ultimate control over the orchestra. Now whoever could she be thinking about with that character and his unpleasant traits? We discuss the show and...

When we got asked if we would like to record a podcast with a theatre company based in Kyiv, Ukraine, well, you don't say no to that do you! So we tasked our reveiwer Dave Bushe with the task of making it happen, and that was how, on Boxing Day, he found himself on Zoom with Pro English Theatre, direct from their theatre which they have now rebranded as the Art Shelter, a theatre turned into a bom...

Olivia Thompson on Fantastic Garland's La Maupin Our latest guest on our Runn Radio show was writer and actor Olivia Thompson from Fantastic Garland . Olivia's latest show is La Maupin , a folk punk play with songs, shining a light on a remarkable woman ahead of her time. The show has already had one run at Lion and Unicorn , where we gave it a four star review , saying it was "bonkers and delight...

Our latest guest on our Runn Radio show is Eleanor Hill . Eleanor is heading to Vault Festival (31 Jan - 3 Feb) with her show Sad-Vents . The show grabbed our attention when we read the press release, especially it’s very clear notice that you are encouraged to get your phones out to take part. It was something that we really needed to find out more about. Eleanor discusses the show, why she is te...

Our latest guest on our podcast is Joe Strickland from Chronic Insanity. It's Joe's second time, as they previously appeared to talk about their Puncture The Screen festival earlier in 2022. This time around We ae talking about All Falls Down , which is their show coming to Vault Festival 2023. All Falls Down is an an interactive and improvised storytelling show about a group of friends trying to...

This week our guests are director Lou Corben and writer Kate Webster. The pair are currently working on a new play Morveren, which is coming to Baron’s Court Theatre in January. (more info and bookings here ) Morveren is centred around a hidden coastal village where women make the rules and no one has to shout to be heard. It’s also a damn difficult word to pronounce, especially when none of us co...

Our latest guests are Billie Grace and Zoe Glen from The Not God Complex . This is their second time on our podcast, having previously appeared to talk about What Makes A Body Terrifying , which was part of Camden Fringe 2022 . We described that show as “abstract. Weird. Confusing” as well as “visually and aurally beautiful from start to finish.” You can read the full review here . Their next show...

Our guests this week on our Runn Radio show were Stephen Smith (from ThreeDumb Theatre) and Scott Le Crass. Stephen and Scott are currently putting the finishing touches to their production of Harry's Christmas, which will open at King's Head Theatre from 6 December (playing thru to 24 December).  Stephen is someone we know well at Everything Theatre having picked up a catelogue of 4 and 5 st...

This week's guest on our Runn Radio show was Aini Javaid. Aini is a 2022 Ambassador for SPID Theatre's Estate Endz Exhibition.  Over the last 12 weeks the young participants (13-25 year olds) on their ‘Estate Endz’ programme have been gaining skills in audio- visual with the guidance of industry professionals specialising in audio-visual and architecture. With social housing heritage and soli...

For our latest podcast, we’re chatting to Lemon Squeeze’s Sarah Archer. Sarah Is writer and director of Crunch!, which asks that age old question, what do you get when you cross a dead iguana, an employee with a very rare medical condition and the HR department in a high-end toilet factory? We chat to Sarah about the play and how it came about from hearing of a bizarre employment tribunal case. Wh...

We spoke to Jamie Sefton, writer and performer of A Thousand Sons back in 2021 , just before the show played at Camden Fringe. It was a fascinating chat about this true story set over seven decades, charting the effects that being present at the atomic bomb testings in the 1950s has had on the men involved, and their families.  Since then we have reviewed the show on two occasions. Firstly at...

This week's guest is Helena Collins O’Connor from We Are Bosstress. Helena joins us to chat about her show Auto-Engrain, which is described as "a harrowing and blunt re-telling of a woman’s experience of a past relationship and how she got to now. No sugar coating allowed." We chat with Helena about the play's themes of toxic relationships, coercive behaviour and what theatre's role is in starting...

This week's guests are writer Nina Atesh, along with actors Andrew Callaghan and Jack Flammiger. Nina's play, The Drought, was the winner of 2021's London Horror Festival playwirght competition. From there it had its first run at King's Head Theatre in September, and is now preparing for a second run, this time as part of Old Red Lion Theatre's GrimFest season. The Drought is a psychological horro...

For this week's chat on Runn Radio we had the immense pleasure of Linus Karp, making his third appearance. This time out we chat about his new show, Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, which as you can guess, is very loosely based on Princess Diana. As Linus tells us, the untrue part of the title is the most telling! As ever, it was a great pleasure to chat with Linus about the show, its origins,...

Admit it, we've all done it, laid in bed in the middle of the night and thought to ourselves, what we really need is a potato based retelling of Faustus? What do you mean, you've never thought that? You must be on your own then. So imagine our absolute joy when we came across Freddie Hayes's Potatohead at this year's EdFringe Festival. Because yes, this is what we'e been calling out for, this is F...

This week’s guests are writer/ performer Andrew Houghton and director, Sami Sumaria from Pink Milk Theatre. The pair joins us to chat about their show, Naughty, which is coming to The Hen and Chickens Theatre soon (27 Sept to 2 Oct), before heading to Salford (6 Oct), Hull (7 Oct) and Cardiff (8 & 9 Oct). The play, a darkly comic, queer coming-of-age tale, had a successful run at 2021’s Camden...

For this week's interview, we went big. And by big, we mean we had five guests all at the same time. Those five consisted of the four cast members of upcoming musical, The Last Sales Conference of the Apocalypse , along with the show's choreographer. Remarkably, we didn't spend half the interview talking over each other. The musical is the latest from Skitzoid Productions , in which Sam has just a...

This week's guests are Sarah-Louise Young and Paulus, two cabaret performers fresh off successful Edinburgh runs with their shows, and who are now touring nationally (and quite possibly internationally) during 2022 and into 2023. Sarah Louise actually has two shows on the go, An Evening WIth Kate Bush and Julie Madly Deeply (described as a love letter to Julie Andrews) whilst Paulus' show is Looki...

Our guest this week is Kitty Cecil-Wright from Back To Back Theatre Productions. Based in Hampshire, they are focusing on touring plays around the South of England. Their second full production, will take in six venues across Hampshire and Dorset, from 28 September to  15 October. We discuss the play, whilst skirting around the issues of spoilers! It is a play that clearly has a big twist com...

This week's guest on our Runn Radio show was Lydia Sax, who is the new Artistic Director of Barnes' OSO Arts Centre, as well as director of A Hundred Words For Snow, the debut play from new theatre company, In Her Element.  A Hundred Words For Snow was a big success when it first hit the stage around 2018, so we were more excited to hear about this revival. We chat to Lydia about why she want...

This week's podcast was a little different to normal as we asked one of our reviewers along to just chat about theatre in general. Some might say it was because we weren't organised enough to arrange a proper guest, but we like to think it just made a nice change. You decide! Dave Bushe was that lucky reviewer. Dave's only been writing for Everything Theatre since the start of 2022, but he has a d...

This week's guest is Lisa O'Hare, a spoken word artist who is bringing her show, Do You Remember The First Rhyme? to Camden Fringe for one evening only on 27 August. Lisa is what can only be described as a late entry into the arts. She didn't even consider she could be a performer until in her 40s. Then in what can only be described as utter madness, she decided in 2019 that she would put on a sho...