Thompson’s Live

For this latest episode, Thompson's Live visits Queen Mary University of London, where the conversation around theatre and performance involves:

Bridget Escolme, Senior Lecturer in Drama, QMUL

Kirsty Housley, director and writer

Andrew Haydon, critic and blogger

Link: the journal MATERIALS can be ordered online from the Materials blog site.

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Thompson's Live, the theatre and performance podcast from Chris Goode & Company, comes this time from the National Theatre Studio in London.

Chris's guests for this episode are:

Nick Blackburn, theatre artist, teacher and filmmaker

Rachel Mars, performance maker

Sam Ladkin, English lecturer, University of Sheffield; dramaturg, Chris Goode & Co.

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Thompson's Live, the fortnightly podcast from Chris Goode & Company focusing on theatre and performance and their conceptual neighbours, comes this time from Theatre in the Mill in Bradford, where Chris's guests are:

Pauline Mayers, dance/movement artist and teacher

Iain Bloomfield, artistic director, Theatre in the Mill

Emma Adams, playwright and theatre maker

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Welcome back to the first in a new series of Thompson's Live, the fortnightly podcast from Chris Goode and Company focusing on theatre and performance, arts and ideas.

For this first programme in the new season we're the guests of Camden People's Theatre in north London, where the SPRINT festival 2013 is underway.

Chris's guests for this episode are:
Hannah Nicklin, theatre maker / producer, games writer, blogger
Jenny Paton, co-director, Camden People's Theatre
Georgina Sowerby, director / actor, co-director, Dirty Market Theatre

Enjoy the show -- and do let us know what you think!

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Hello again! As trailed in the last episode, here's a special bonus edition of Thompson's Live, the theatre & cool-stuff podcast from Chris Goode & Company.

This episode isn't like the others, mostly because it's not recorded in front of a live audience at Stoke Newington International Airport -- or indeed anywhere. Chris's guests are:

Maddy Costa, critic, blogger, and co-director of Dialogue

Jonny Liron, performance maker

Harry Gilonis, poet

But what you'll hear is two intercut conversations: one, with Chris talking to Maddy and Jonny, recorded at a restaurant in Stoke Newington on December 12th; the other, with Harry and Chris, recorded in one of the upstairs bars at the Royal Festival Hall on November 24th. The chat with Maddy and Jonny is split into two half-hour extracts (from a nearly three-hour conversation); the interview with Harry can be heard in between.

We hope you enjoy this rather different edition of the podcast. We'll be back in front of an audience, in the standard format, in March.

Happy holidays!

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So all too soon we've reached the last of this present series of podcasts from Chris Goode & Company, focusing on theatre and performance, poetry and music, arts and ideas.

The conversation this time is even longer than usual, and yet as ever there's so much more that could have been said: particularly as, unusually, we had a single topic to focus on: namely, the current state of writing for (and not for) theatre.

The three brilliant guests who joined us to think through some of the questions around this strangely fraught territory were:

Chris Campbell, Literary Manager, Royal Court Theatre

Dan Rebellato, Professor of Contemporary Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London

Francesca Lisette, poet

There's also an amazing, longer-than-usual set from Francesca at the end, which you won't want to miss.

There'll be one more episode before the end of the year -- a kind of Christmas bonus, not recorded at STK and not taped before an audience, but still full of big ideas and good conversation -- which should come out around December 18th.

In the meantime, thanks to everyone at the Airport, everyone's who's come along to listen and contribute, and above all our eighteen fantastic guests.

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It's a rather dismally truncated episode of Thompson's Live this time, for reasons that Chris explains in the introduction: but there's still a lot to enjoy in the 45 minutes of conversation around theatre and performance, poetry and music, arts and ideas.

The guests for this penultimate live episode are:

Stella Duffy, writer, performer, director

CJ Mitchell, co-director, Live Art Development Agency

Alison Blunt, musician

Hope you enjoy (despite everything!).

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We've reached the fourth episode of Thompson's Live, the Chris Goode & Company podcast where we talk about theatre and performance, poetry and music, arts and ideas.

Huddling together with the audience for warmth at a chilly Stoke Newington International Airport, and trying not to be too distracted by the Bonfire Night fireworks outside, were Chris's guests:

Wendy Houstoun, dance / theatre artist

Mary Paterson, writer & curator

Dominic Lash, musician

Please do leave any comments or responses you'd like to share.

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Welcome to the third in this series of six podcasts from Chris Goode & Company, focusing on conversation around theatre and performance, poetry and music, arts and ideas.

Joining Chris for this recording at Stoke Newington International Airport were:

Phelim McDermott, co-artistic director of Improbable

Rajni Shah, performance maker

John Hall, poet; Professor of Performance Writing, University College Falmouth

There's a bit of interference on the audio of this episode, particularly in the first minute. Apologies for that -- we hope it doesn't spoil your enjoyment.

The Ira Glass video mentioned by Phelim is here: http://vimeo.com/24715531

The book Where We Dream mentioned by Rajni can be ordered or downloaded here: http://regularmarvels.com/2012/04/30/where-we-dream-book/

The Sara Maitland piece mentioned by Chris is here: http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/sara-maitland-wind-farms-beauty-and-justice/

We welcome your comments.

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The second episode of the Chris Goode & Company podcast, focusing on conversation around theatre and performance, poetry and music, arts and ideas.

Joining Chris for this recording at Stoke Newington International Airport were:

Judith Knight, co-director of Artsadmin

David Jays, theatre and dance critic

Andrea Brady, poet

We welcome your comments.

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