The Everything Theatre Interviews

This week's guest on our Runn Radio show were the team from the wonderfully named Not God Comple x. They came along to chat to us about their Camden Fringe bound show, What Makes A Body Terrifying. The show plays at The Hope Theatre between 15 and 18 August.  Hear company founders Zoe Glen and Billie Grace, plus the play's director, Bethan Burke, tell us about the show, a queer exploration of...

This week's guest is David Brady, returning for his third time! Which means we must be doing something right. David is Artistic Director of Proforca Theatre, who are the company running Lion and Unicorn Theatre. So as well as programming in artists to perform at the theatre, they also put on their own show. And it's their latest show, FlashBang, David is here to chat about, although as always we g...

This week we were joined by emerging theatre artists Steph McNeil and Helin Ekin. The pair have forged a great friendship, out of which they have become writing partners. And the first result of this new partnership is Hoops and Hookups , a dark comedy about sexuality, identity and family relationships. Steph and Ekin are full of energy and abition, not just for this play but for where they will g...

CoLab Theatre are experts in the field of immersive theatre, creating shows that really do live up to the immersive tag. Their new show, The West, looks to be no different, taking us back to the Wild West into a township that has been decimated and needs rebuilding. And that's where the audience come in, as they become the townsfolk and can take on various roles to fulfil that aim. So we were very...

This week's guest is James Lark, who has written and composed a new musical, Infants. The show follows one day in the life of an infant school, where something bad has happened and the teachers are trying to stop the parents finding out. A cast of six play the children, the teachers and the parents. It certainly looks like it will be a lot of fun. We chat to James about the show, musicals in gener...

This week's guest is Tristan Jackson-Pate from Cherwell Theatre Company . Tristan has written the company's latest show, Song of the Summer, a piece of gig theatre inspired by his time in bands around 2006. We talk about the show and why Tristan feels it is very different to other gig theatre shows, as it is much more indie-rock based. Plus we talk gig theatre in general, and why it really is an e...

This week's guest is Joe Strictland from Chronic Insanity Theatre Company. The company are currently putting the finishing touches to their Puncture The Screen Festival, which will play 16 and 17 July. It consists of digital art and performance, workshops, panel discussions, and educational opportunities for creatives and audiences alike. They will be presenting many of the works live, b...

This week our guest on Runn Radio was 3Dumb Theatre's Stephen Smith. We've been big fans of their work since we first saw their online show Within towards the start of lockdown. Their ability to create inventive pieces with limited resources stood out from that first show. And since then, they have garnered a collection of wonderful reviews, not just from ET, but generally everyone who has witness...

This week's interview is a rather more serious affair to normal - not that we don't take all our guests seriously and treat their shows with respect, but as regular listeners will know, we do tend to laugh a lot as well. Not this week. Because Nathaniel McBride's Dictating To The Estate is a play that looks at the estate where the Grenfell Tower was. It doesn't look at the fire directly, but at th...

SIxty-seven is the retirement age for most of us now. It's the age we will have to work to until we can claim our state pension. For those in their 20s it must feel a daunting thing to imagine, having to work until that age, especially if you are in a job that you don't enjoy.  Sixty-Seven is also the play by Tiny Theatre which is coming back to Lion and Unicorn Theatre in June. It had an ini...

This week sees another returning guest to our podcast in Chewboy Productions' Georgie Bailey. And this time he has company in the form of co-artistic director, Hal Darling and Resident DIrector, Lucy Betts. The three tell us all about CHewFest, a week long celebration of some of the weirdest, whackiest flavours from early-career companies, dynamic new writers of all ages and bold screen work from...

This week we chat with Adam Hemming, the Artistic Director of The Space Arts Centre, a marvellous fringe theatre venue just a ston'e throw from Canary Wharf. Adam tells us what's involved in being an AD, what keeps him wanting to stay even after 18 years, and how well their recent excursion into putting on wrestling went!

We met Ian McFarlane back in 2020 when we spoke to him about Revellers Society . He is now back with Forever Oz, which, as the title suggests, is based on L. Frank Baum's series of books from which The Wizard Of Oz came. But rest assured, this is not a new stage adaptation of the film we all know and love, but instead is based on the second and third books in the series, along with some adaptation...

This week sees the return of Lily Middleton to interview duties, when she sits down with Split Infinitive Theatre to talk about their new show I Heart Michael Ball. As you should expect from the best of fringe theatre, the title is only half the story, and it is not just a love-in for Michael Ball, but an exploration of loss and depression. But yes, there is also a lot of love to be had for Michae...

This week's guest is Jack Condon, whose play If. Destroyed. Still. True is opening at The Hope Theatre in a few weeks time. As Jack explains, the phrase If. Destroyed. Still. True was one he knew from schoolddays and was surprised it wasn't widely known. He was originally intending to call the play I.D.S.T. until he realised no one knew what it meant! As well as explaining the title, Jack tells us...

This week we caught up with actor and writer, Will Charlton. Will is next to be found acting in Jumper at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, a play set across two different times frames five years apart, the first of which finds him stuck on the underground on election night.  Will tells us more about the play, and what it is like to act in someone else's work when you are a writer yourself. We al...

This week we caught up with Helen Monks and Matt Woodhead from Lung Theatre. A campaign lead theatre company, there have recently launched Unmute, a monologue writing competition for 11 - 18 year olds.  We had a great time chatting about the competition, why they wanted to aim it at 11 - 18 year olds, and just what they might be looking for in a winning entry. And along the way we found time...

For our latest episiode, we sat down with playwright Andrew Sharpe. Andrew's play, The Spiral Path, has already received great reviews from its initial run at The Maltings Theatre, and it is now preparing for its London debut at the White Bear Theatre. Andrew is of a more mature age to many of our guests on the podcast, having started writing later in life when he stopped practicing law. So it was...

This week we chat to David Brady from Proforca Theatre, about their latest play Volcano. The play follows Max on a 12-hour odyssey across London that will change his life forever.  Made in collaboration with Georgie Bailey from Chewdog Productions, who have also been guests on this podcast (ep 1), we talk to David about the play, working with Chewboy, and whether he has succeeded in his aim t...

We enjoyed chatting to Aaron-Lee Eyles last year so much that we didn't hestiate to invite him back for a second time when we heard about his new show, DeFriest. And this time he brought along his lead actor, Jay O'Connell, to join in the chat. DeFriest tells the story of real life Mark DeFriest, an American who has spent much of his adult life in prison, even though it has been widely argued that...

Noga Flaishon makes a welcome return to chatting with us about Harpy Productions ' latest show, Lethe. As weith much of their work, it's set in a future dystopian world, where you can now have bad memories erased permenantly. But at what cost? Lethe was scheduled to play at Vault Festival, and this interview was recorded ahead of the festival's cancellation. At the moment there are no confirmed da...

Paper Mug Theatre may be fairly new, but they have been busy! Last summer we saw their show I Lost My Virginity To Chopin’s Nocturne In B-Flat Minor , and now they are back with not one, but two shows. The first of which is Steve and Tobias Verses Death, which will be playing at The Pleasance in March . The show finds a zombie apocalypse happening outside brothers Steve and Tobias' front door, but...

Tommy, AKA The Queer Historian, is a disabled theatre maker. His latest show, How DIsabled Are You? explores what it is like when your disability is called into question and how the benefits system really isn't as easy to claim on as the Daily Mail might have you believe. This is yet another show that was planned for the cancelled Vault Festival, recorded before the sad news of the cancellation, s...

We recorded this interview just before Christmas, and at that time, we had no idea the Vault Festival would be cancelled for 2022. So when we sat down to chat about Pickle with Deli Segal (written and actor) and Tanya Truman (producer) we thought it would be to promote the show when it played at the festival. However, what we ended up with was a great discussion about the lack of representation of...

Paul Bradshaw is a writer and performer, whose latest show, Tell Me Straight was first played at King's Head Theatre, and is now about to open for a run at Chiswick Playhouse. The play follows Him, a gay man who seems to have a history of going after the wrong type of men - straight ones! All to the despair of his friend Dani is on hand to try to guide him in the right directly. We caught up with...