We are so ready to laugh in this week's episode as we serve up a slice of out of control comedy with Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, a.k.a Mischief Theatre!  We discuss just exactly what makes us laugh, our own goes wrong shows....and why it sometimes helps to be a Russian Acrobat.

With Special Guest, Theatre Director and Associate Director for the West End and International Productions of The Play That Goes Wrong, Sean Turner

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Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Sean trained at The National Theatre Studio as well as both the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and East 15. He is the Associate Director of the West End and UK Touring productions of The Play That Goes Wrong and has directed replica productions in Australia, New Zealand, Russia, South Korea, Hong Kong and Spain.

Sean is responsible for unearthing Arthur Miller’s first play No Villain and presenting the World Premiere which transferred to the West End in 2016 (Trafalgar Studios). Other recent credits include: Talk Radio (Old Red Lion); Nahda (Bush Theatre) The Crucible (ALRA); Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Permanently Bard/UK Tour); Shakespeare's Lovers (The Faction); His 2012 London transfer of Edinburgh hit Three of Hearts received five Off West End nominations including Best Director.

EPISODE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fun Facts
https://www.londontheatredirect.com/news/top-10-fun-facts-about-the-play-that-goes-wrong

Sunday Telegraph Review
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/11106181/The-Play-That-Goes-Wrong-Duchess-Theatre-review-delightful.html

Guardian Interview on West End Transfer
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/oct/17/the-play-that-goes-wrong-west-end-hit

Jonathan Sayer Interview with WhatsonLive
https://www.whatsonlive.co.uk/warwickshire/news/the-play-that-went-right-an-interview-with-jonathan-sayer/40438

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It's time to start a revolution and have a revelation with SWEAT.  This prescient text saw Nottage win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the second time (becoming the first female playwright to do so!) and it's a play that definitely packs a punch.

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Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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EPISODE BIBILOGRAPHY

Pulitzer Prize Website
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/lynn-nottage-0

Lynne Nottage Website link
http://www.lynnnottage.com/about.html

The New Yorker review
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-first-theatrical-landmark-of-the-trump-era

Guardian review
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/dec/20/sweat-review-donmar-warehouse-lynn-nottage

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Grab your Samovars, set your spinning tops awhirl - we're off to 1900 Russia! But sadly Moscow will remain just out of our reach, as it does for our titular Three Sisters. Just like in the Russian equivalent of The Brady Bunch, this episode has a heavy focus on Masha from Meg, and Lexie does her best not to butcher the Russian language.


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Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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EPISODE BIBILOGRAPHY

Variety Review of Almedia Production
https://variety.com/2019/legit/reviews/three-sisters-review-almeida-theatre-1203193642/

 What’s On Stage Review of Almedia Production
https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/reviews/three-sisters-almeida-chekhov-ferran_48905.html

 Original Production History
https://threesistersdramaturgy.weebly.com/production-history.html

Anton Checkhov Bibliography
http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/chekhovbio.html

 Anton Checkhov and Olga Knipper
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/20/secrets-lies-and-a-child-william-boyd-on-the-truth-behind-chekhovs-marriage

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Grab a bucket of popcorn, throw it all over the floor - it's time to hunker down in a cinema seat for Annie Baker's The Flick. Lexie is delighted with the word Guggenheim, we find out just what snacks our hosts have snuck into cinema screens, and Meg tells us what she really thinks of the movie Avatar.

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Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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EPISODE BIBILOGRAPHY

Steppenwolf Article
https://www.steppenwolf.org/articles/a-note-on-run-time--use-of-silence-in-annie-bakers-the-flick/

Pulitzer Website
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/annie-baker

Prelude to ‘The Naked and The Dead’ by Bernard Herrmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htKa6dzfgcs

 The Wild Bunch Opening Credit Scene (6min) by Jerry Fielding - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ_hSyUCSOI

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Hear our minds be blown by Jasmine Lee Jones' electric debut play that completely rips up the rule book on script format. And just how do you make a big blue bird expand on stage...?
With Special Guest, Theatre Director Brigitte Adela.

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Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Brigitte Adela is a freelance theatre director, maker and facilitator. Her previous work includes; Wakes (Bunker Theatre), Dutty Wine (Southwark Playhouse), Tamasha Scratch Night (Soho Theatre), The Talk (Richmix), Collegiate (Attenborough Arts Centre/Bread and Roses/Arcola), St George’s Day (Park Theatre) and What Would Quentin Do (Bush Theatre). She has a interest in sound and has written and designed audio projects, such as Just Breathe (Swiss Cottage Library). 

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As we have launched this podcast during the global pandemic and lockdown of 2020, we find out just how relevant a text The Nether feels at this time. Containing just your average amount of time talking The Sims, Louis Theroux and the 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony.

Disclaimer - this play does deal with adult themes which we discuss in the episode, so if you have any concerns and are not already familiar with the play's content, we do advise researching the play in advance.

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Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Crack open a window it's time to delve into David Hare's timeless classic, Skylight! Lexie and Meg talk fancy breakfasts, the challenges of spaghetti and the enigma that is Kyra.
With Special Guest Theo Fraser-Steele, who played Edward in the original West End remount in 1997.

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It's episode 2 and we're talking teenagers in Little Baby Jesus by Arinzé Kene. Meg waxes lyrical about the performance she saw last year of this and Lexie tests her school day R.E knowledge.

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Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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In episode 1 we take an in-depth look at Ross and Rachel by James Fritz, and chat lobsters, the patriarchy and happily ever afters.
Published by Nick Hern Books.

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Hello! We are Lexie and Meg, and this is our brand new podcast Script In Hand. We're here with our trailer to whet your appetite for some tantalising theatre talk, as each week we will be picking a new play text to read, discuss and dissect.  We’ll be lusting over punctuation choices, pulling characters intentions apart, and generally trying our darndest not to pronounce anything incorrectly....

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