Around the Table with Foreign Affairs

A podcast from Foreign Affairs theatre company, Around the Table brings theatre translators and makers together for open, informal conversations about their craft, creative journeys, and the stories that shape their work.

Recorded in our creative home in Hackney, each episode offers a relaxed, behind-the-scenes look at the people, processes, and perspectives shaping theatre today – in the UK and beyond.

In this roundtable, we’ve gathered the mentors from the sixth edition of our Theatre Translator Mentorship - Almiro Andrade, Charis Ainslie, Paul Russell Garrett and William Gregory - with Jozefina Komporaly guiding the conversation.

For more details, visit our website.

The Theatre Translator Mentorship and engagement programme funded by Jerwood Foundation and Arts Council England.

Recording & mixing by Location Sound London

Music by Anastasia Chubarova from Pixabay

5 questions is a podcast series from Foreign Affairs theatre company.

The format is simple: two theatre makers, five questions each.

In this episode, playwright Christina Kettering and translator Pauline Wick, come together online to discuss their work on Black Swans.

Black Swans will be playing at the Omnibus Theatre from 23 April to 11 May 2024.

For more details and to book tickets click here.

Black Swans and its engagement programme are funded by Arts Council England and Unity Trust. The production is presented in arrangement with DREI MASKEN VERLAG GmbH München.

5 questions is a podcast series from Foreign Affairs theatre company.

The format is simple: two theatre makers, five questions each.

In this episode, playwright Simone Isabel Nørgaard and translator Paul Russell Garrett, come together online to discuss their work on The Earth's Core. 

A rehearsed reading of The Earth's Core will be presented on Wednesday 22 & Thursday 23 March 2023 at the Batch Baby café at the Rose Lipman Building. 

For more details about the play and our work, head over to our website. 

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation 

5 questions is a podcast series from Foreign Affairs theatre company.

The format is simple: two theatre makers, five questions each.

In this episode, cultural dramaturg and embedded critic Deema Al-Mohammad and production dramaturg Ria Samartzi come together online to talk about their work on the UK premiere of The Wetsuitman.

Supported by Flanders Ministry of Culture.

The Wetsuitman will be playing at the Arcola Theatre this summer, from Thursday 29 August to Saturday 2 September.

For more details and to book tickets, click here.

5 questions is a podcast series from Foreign Affairs theatre company.

The format is simple: two theatre makers, five questions each.

In this episode, playwright Freek Mariën and translator David McKay come together online to talk about their work on The Wetsuitman.

Supported by Flanders Ministry of Culture.

The Wetsuitman will be playing at the Arcola Theatre this summer, from Thursday 29 August to Saturday 2 September.

For more details and to book tickets, click here.

5 questions is a new podcast from Foreign Affairs theatre company.

The format is simple: two theatre makers, five questions each, no borders.

In this first episode, playwright Marc-Antoine Cyr and translator Charis Ainslie come together (on Zoom) to talk about their work in the run up to the world premiere of Where I Call Home (Gens du pays).

Where I Call Home plays at the Rose Lipman Building in east London from the 23-27 November.

For more details, visit our website.