The Almeida Theatre's Artistic Director Rupert Goold talks to the writer Beth Steel whose play The House of Shades was due to go into rehearsals at the Almeida just as the lockdown hit. She talks about her unconventional route to becoming a writer and the need for theatre to have more working-class voices.

Beth won Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, and her play Wonderland was shortlisted for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

This podcast was recorded during the lockdown caused by the Coronavirus outbreak of 2020.

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While Coronavirus has forced our doors to close, we are keeping the memory of the theatre alive through a new series of podcasts with some recent Almeida artists, including Matt Smith, Noma Dumezweni and Tobias Menzies.

Listen from Sat 23 May

Khalid Abdalla, activist and actor (The Kite Runner) currently cast in the Almeida's The Duchess of Malfi and previously in Shipwreck, talks to the Almeida's Artistic Director Rupert Goold.

Almeida Theatre Podcast: where the creatives, who work behind the scenes to create the work on the Almeida stage, talk about themselves, their careers and their experiences.

In our second episode, award-winning playwright Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play, “Daddy”) talks to the Almeida’s Artistic Director Rupert Goold.

Episode 1

At the Almeida Theatre we make brave new work that asks big questions: of plays, of theatre and of the world around us.

The Almeida Theatre Podcast brings together artists who create the performances on stage to talk about their lives, their work and how they make theatre.

In our first episode, Olivier Award-winning Associate Director of the Almeida Theatre Rebecca Frecknall (Summer and Smoke, Three Sisters) talks to the Almeida’s Artistic Director Rupert Goold.

With special thanks to George Lumkin, Rupert Goold and Rebecca Frecknall.