MakeyUppers Podcast

MakeyUppers Podcast

By Sorcha ShanahanComedySociety & CultureArts
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MakeyUppers Podcast episodes

  • Alternative Bedtime Stories - The Cinderella Episode

    In this, our first (re-uploaded and better sounding) episode, we talk about the beginnings of MakeyUppers.

    We talk about:

    • How the Cinderella sketch was written by Gemma years before we met
    • How we met and bonded over mutual disillusionment with the acting industry
    • How we discovered that it was a feminist piece...and that we were too
    • Discovering our skills and shared passion for multi-role-ing, physical theatre and clowning
    • Accidental Theatre's Scratch Night in Belfast and needing deadlines
    • Our subsequent realisation of how anti - feminist the sketch actually was and how we developed a new sketch in response
    • How our work has always reflected where we're at in our personal lives
    • What clowning is...? What great acting needs.

     

    **PLEASE NOTE** I think 'technical issues' are the term used to explain the imperfections in the recording - I'm (Sorcha) choosing to see them as 'learning curveys'...!

     

    P.S. The clips of the sketch are from our rehearsal before the recording - I somehow managed to not record that one... Seamless!

     


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    43 min

About MakeyUppers Podcast

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Sorcha and Gemma are MakeyUppers - a storytelling duo whose play based approach to theatre has created a prolific amount of work since they began working together in 2015.

Based in Derry,…