The Theatre of Others Podcast

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi are joined by Steven Gaultney and continue the Audio New Play Festival with a conversation with Australia-based playwrights of the upcoming audio play TALES FROM THE ARCADIA, Justin Tan and Sabina Gerardi. Justin Tan is a graduate of Company 2020's BFA Acting course at the Victorian College of the Arts. A...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! This episode contains sexually explicit content that some listeners may find disturbing If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast then support is available by visiting the link below to organizations that can support you in your area. https://ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html Sophie and Karl are persuaded to go on a bl...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi continue the Audio New Play Festival with a conversation with Ireland based playwright of BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, Colette Cullen Colette Cullen's new play WHEN RACHEL MET FIONA received a rehearsed reading as part of The New Theatre's New Writing Week 2020 on December 9th and will have its UK premiere...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! It won't happen again.  I love you I'm trying to do what's best for you   Galatea - a statue, an ideal, an object of love.  When the sculptor Pygmalion’s creation is brought to life by the Goddess Aphrodite, Happily Ever After seems an inevitability. Love is an enchantment; all are blinded by its glamour.  But who decides wha...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi are joined by Steven Gaultney and continue the Audio New Play Festival with a conversation with the Singapore-based playwright of the upcoming audio play GALATEA , Rachel Chin. Rachel Chin is a multilingual actor, singer, playwright, model, and emcee. She is fluent in English, Malay, Mandarin, and conversant i...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! Thief is based on real stories about post-natal depression. Framed as an interview via WhatsApp audio messages conducted by the author, a conversation becomes a confession of 3 women about their challenging and dark experiences of motherhood. In making Thief , we invited women to put their voices to the largely undivulged experience of post...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi start off the Audio New Play Festival with a conversation with Hong Kong-based playwright of the upcoming audio play THIEF, Kristina Pakhomova. Kristina Pakhomova is a Russian actress, writer, producer, founder, and artistic director of KrisP. Production in Hong Kong. Kristina is passionate about storytelling,...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi speak with company member Steven Gaultney about playwrighting and his dramaturgy for the Audio New Play Festival. Steven Gaultney is a Brooklyn-based playwright. His plays include A Thousand Ships at the Bottom of the Sea , Limb from Limb, Negligence , and Adam’s Dream . He is the resident playwright and drama...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi talk about the situation in Afghanistan Thanks to Vignesh Singh for the question. Mentioned in this episode: Al-Jazeera Intercultural Theatre Institute NAFA LASALLE Heart to Hart with Don Cheadle Venus and Serena To submit a question, please visit http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers for voice recording or...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss the top 5 theatre productions that influenced them as theatre makers, what they learned from them, and how it changed them. Mentioned in this episode: Dan Andrews New Administrative Capital Zabbaleen and Trash City Jean-Guy Lecat Tina Landau The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Bogart and Tina Landau's Th...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi speak with their mentor and great friend Stephen Wangh. Stephen Wangh has been a playwright , director , and teacher of acting . He is the author of An Acrobat of the Heart, a physical approach to acting inspired by the work of Jerzy Grotowski (Vintage, Random House, 2000) and of The Heart of Teaching: Empower...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi talk about quarantine, language, and answer listeners' questions Thanks to David Priebe for the questions Mentioned in this episode: Black Mirror DnD Elinor Fuchs La Tempete Oscar "Oz" Nava To submit a question, please visit http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers for voice recording or submit...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi look back over the last year of the podcast, celebrate surviving 2020, and look forward to what is coming next. Mentioned in this episode: The Art of Manliness Podcast Steve Wangh To submit a question, please visit http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers for voice recording or submit an email to podcast@theat...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss The Rewrite, the vulnerable process of sharing your finished work with other artists only to discover that the job has just begun. To submit a question, please visit http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers for voice recording or submit an email to podcast@theatreofothers.com Messages may be quoted by...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss The Game, how playwrights are already using the 4 levels of play and Directors need to start investigating how Theatre can play beyond just make believe. Mentioned in this episode: Aristotle's Poetics The Mahabharata Brian Kulick Kings of War The Color Purple The Crucible Hamilton Topdog/Underdog...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss Presence and how to be onstage with a Lantern outlook instead of a Spotlight so the audience can enter your experience. Mentioned in this episode: Poltergeist Herbert Blau Gangaji Jane Goodall's Stage Presence Michael Pollan's How to Change your Mind Matrix Reloaded Alison Gopnik's The P...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss why we gather, what a gathering needs to be successful, and how to go about making the gathering worthwhile Mentioned in this episode: Les Miserables Diane Paulus Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play Elias Cannetti's Crowds and Power Danny M...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi have a great conversation with Voice Specialist Micha Espinosa Micha Espinosa is an Arizona-based interdisciplinary performing artist, activist, teacher, voice, speech, and dialect coach who has performed and taught globally. Professor (BFA, Stephens College; MFA Acting, U.C. San Diego) at Arizona State Univer...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss Archetypes, Stereotypes, Tropes, and Cliches and how to notice them, use them, or avoid them in your writing and your acting. Mentioned in this episode: Heroes Jungian Archetypes Archetype List Loki WandaVision The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Startup To submit a q...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi answer listeners' questions Thanks to Tanvi Rajgharia , Steven Gaultney , Jun Vinh Teo , and Lizbeth Lambert for the questions Mentioned in this episode: Julia Cameron's The Artists Way Gary Zukav's The Seat of the Soul The Color Purple Spring Awakening Caroline Myss' The Anatomy of the Spi...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi have a freewheeling conversation about the ultimate Multimedia device, the Theatre, and how you should focus on content (what and why) rather than delivery (how). Mentioned in this episode: Katie Mitchell Ivo van Hove Romeo Castellucci Robert Lepage The Waves The Wooster Group The Roman Tragedies 887 Mabou Min...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss the Clown, how it is a foundational acting technique, and how to open yourself to live with your clown. Mentioned in this episode: DnD Purple Planet Christopher Bayes Experimental Theatre Wing Caroline Myss Dave Chapelle's The Midnight Miracle Catherine Fitzmaurice Jacques Lecoq Philippe Gaulier D...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss the Proscenium Theater, its colonial structure, and how to begin thinking about the future of theatre beyond the Proscenium. Mentioned in this episode: Daniel Banks Oklahoma Cabaret BAM Harvey SIFA Jean-Guy Lecat Robert Wilson Ivo van Hove A View from the Bridge The Crucible Kings of War Happy Days The...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi speak with director Shadi Ghaheri about her career as an immigrant theatre-maker, how language plays a key role in how we view the future, and why archiving is vitally necessary now. Shadi Ghaheri is a Theatre/Film director, choreographer, and writer from Tehran, Iran based in New York City. She has directed,...

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss Mentioned in this episode: Chili Pad Maadi, Cairo, Egypt Paul Eluard's Blue like an Orange e.e.cummings but if a living dance upon dead minds Fry and Laurie Shakespeare Masterclass Davis Dyslexia Programs Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls.... Michaela Coel The Public Theater Sarah Kane Wole...