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096 - The Mono Box Speech Surgery Sep 19, 2018

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This week, I had the privilege of sharing the platform with Cherrelle Skeete (actress and found of Blacktress.co.uk), long-time RSC stalwart actor Sam Marks and director Zoé Ford, currently Associate Director for Sam Mendes on the Lehman Trilogy at the National Theatre.

Curated by The Mono Box's Polly Bennett, the panel's discussion were kicked off by two questions about mental health and issues of self-worth. Those two questions took half an hour to address, and I thought I would let you listen to how the conversation unfolded. I found it fascinating, and hopefully you will, too. It is apparent that we, in this industry, find it very hard to talk about how we are feeling, and yet we are expected to bare our souls in front of a camera or audience.

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095 - Vicki Mortimer, Designer Sep 12, 2018

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This week, Matt Humphrey and I sat down to talk with Vicki Mortimer, multi-award-winning designer...and just all round fantastic theatre professional.

Vicki's career is so full and varied, it's one to be envied for anyone considering a career in theatre design. And not just theatre as we speak about it on day to day, but any production in a theatre. Musicals, drama, dance, opera, ballet...you name it, she has designed it.

Just some of the theatres she has designed for include the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, ENO, Royal Opera House, The Young Vic, Glyndebourne, Scottish National Ballet, Shakespeare's Globe... the list goes on.

094 - NT Live: "Julie" Sep 04, 2018

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This week is our first ever podcast brought to you specifically to celebrate an NT Live broadcast. We are bringing you some backstage chats with the cast of the National's Lyttelton Theatre's current production of "Julie" including "The Crown's" Vanessa Kirby and Eric Kofi-Abrefa, recently seen onstage at the National in "The Amen Corner".

The company talk about how exciting it is bringing this 19th Century Swedish classic to the 21st Century London and being able to share it beyond the walls of the National Theatre's home on the South Bank to cinemas around the globe.

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093 - George Richmond Scott Aug 22, 2018

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This week, Curtain Call's Theo Bosanquet chats with George Richmond Scott, the director of "Blood Wedding" - the inaugural production in Omnibus Theatre's autumn season.

Theo talked to George about his career as a vocal coach, how that role has helped him develop as a director, his time at the Sheffield Crucible, assisting on "Everybody's Talking about Jamie", why he chose "Blood Wedding" as his next project and why he set it in London in this reimagining of the piece.

092 - Bring it On, London! Aug 14, 2018

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Bring It On was a cult hit movie, loosely translated for the stage with one of the show's composers someone you may have heard of...Lin Manuel Miranda. Set in two competing high schools (hence to two different composers with two completely different sounds), the musical is a camp exposé of the "bitchiness" (in air quotes) that can exist in the world of cheerleading and the rollercoaster ride that is life in an American high school, with it's cliques of jocks, geeks and everybody in between.

We got to chat to company members from the British Theatre Academy's production including Robin McIntyre (who plays super-earnest Campbell) and Isabella Pappas (who plays super-bitchy Skylar) along with musical director Chris Ma before the show at the Southwark Playhouse.

091 - The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Aug 07, 2018

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This week, I talk to the company of the latest revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice which begins playing at The Park Theatre later this month, where the director Tom Latter believes that, despite being nearly 30 years old, the play absolutely stands up in today's fame-crazed social media driven world. Also, this production boasts a real mother and daughter team in Sally George and Rafaella Hutchinson taking on the roles of Mari and LV. They also had a bit to say about what it's like in the rehearsal room watching their family member being spoken to like they've never heard before...

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090 - Keeping it Cool with the Americans Jul 10, 2018

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During the hottest stretch of hot summer weather we can remember in years here in the UK, we are bringing you some of our favourite chats from that last few years of the coolest Americans that have come over to play on the London stage - with each of the following three making their London theatrical debuts, and all of them known for their star turns on screen. Listen to John Goodman, Uzo Aduba and Michael C Hall share their experiences from the London stage.

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089 - Rafe Spall Jul 03, 2018

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Rafe Spall can currently be seen in the latest blockbuster from the Jurassic stable playing Eli MIlls, a scheming businessman trying to bend his immediate world to his doing. And the same can be said about his role in Hedda Gabler, playing the unnerving puppet master Judge Brack, orchestrating the downfall of pretty much everyone else in the Ibsen's classic, and with Ivo van Hove pulling out every bit of charismatic suave machismo from Spall.

We sat down with Rafe and talked about Ivo van Hove's rehearsal process, the intricacies of trying to look cool at all times on stage, avoiding slip ups on rose petals (you'll have to listen to see what I mean) and just what it takes to come back to the stage as not only a theatre professional, but a theatre professional with a young family.

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088 - Stage Management Awards Jun 19, 2018

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For the last 30 years, the Stage Management Association (SMA)has been presenting awards to the Stage Managers - students and professionals alike - with awards that recognise their hard work through hardship, misstep and mishap, hard work that ensured that the shows would go on.

We attended the ABTT Theatre Show in Alexandra Palace a couple of weeks ago and had the pleasure of attending the awards ceremony. Curtain Call thought we would shine a light on the proceedings.

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087 - The Stable Musicals Jun 12, 2018

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I sat down with one of the founders of The Stable Musicals, Neil Marcus, a theatre producer with a distinguished history of developing new musicals and a massive supporter of emerging British musical theatre talent to discuss the growth of The Stable Musicals, their slate of new musicals and just how far they have come in the last four years.

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