Play Ground
Nancy Netherwood & Sam WebberA fortnightly theatre bookclub hosted by Nancy Netherwood and Sam Webber. Every other Thursday we take a deep dive into a different play from a range of genres, writers, times and places - join in the conversation over on Instagram @playground_pod
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 38 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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We're doing a musical! And trying our very best to discuss the published script rather than the four thousand different live shows that Nancy has obsessively watched.
This 2013 show is an adaptation of the controversial book (and cult f... more
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Football! Wait no soccer - Soccer!
This Pulitzer-nommed play from 2016 follows an U17s indoor girls soccer team as they warm up for various games. Very little happens, and it's one of the most devastating plays we've ever read.
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'The trashiest play we've ever done.'
Content Warnings: Murder/Drugs/Classism
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After an infamously terrible debut, this classic Russian play went on to define naturalism, changing how we make theatre in the West forever. It is also full of sad theatre makers, which may go some way to explain its enduring popularity... more
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A travelling 'Odditorium' is struggling to make ends meet, and as a change of tactic the performers start trying to make themselves as normal as can be. If you can see how bleak this is about to get, then congratulations on having more i... more
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Cillian Murphy somehow remains looking beautiful through this deeply intense and gruelling play - first performed in 1999 by Walsh himself, we very specifically take a look at the revised/updated 2011 version which took the intimate one-... more
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Is this a play? Performance art? Essay? Real or not real? This play/text/email chain was originally presented as a live performance and digital experience combination, then printed onto paper, and now thrust back onto the internet by us ... more
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East coast round 2!
We talk aliens, village gossip, and the strange prescience of this play written in 1973 about 1907 when being read in 2025.
FAIRYTALE UPDATE:
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