Simone de Haas

SEASON 1: EPISODE 1

Before the First Entrance

Before the first woman steps forward, there is a moment of waiting.

For more than forty years, theatre director Simone de Haas has lived alongside the women of Shakespeare: in scripts, rehearsal rooms, whispered conversations between scenes, and the strange alchemy that happens when words leave the page and become flesh.

Some lingered long after the curtain fell.

In this introductory episode of The Unsung Feminine, Simone opens the door to nine women who carry something profoundly recognisable across the centuries: questions of voice, identity, desire, power, sovereignty and the parts of ourselves that have become unsung.

They are waiting in the wings.

This is the moment before their first entrance.

Some Thoughts Ask to Be Spoken | A Prologue

Some ideas are perfectly content to stay on the page. Others seem to want a heartbeat.

In this opening prologue to Conversations for the Journey Home, Simone de Haas reflects on the curious ways ideas find us, the notebooks that hold them, and why some thoughts eventually ask to be spoken.

Drawing on a lifetime in theatre, storytelling and communication, Simone opens the door to a podcast exploring the stories we live, the things we notice, and the conversations that bring us a little closer to ourselves.

An invitation to listen, reflect and perhaps notice something you hadn't quite heard before.