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 | 31 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | ArtsPerforming Arts | |||
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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:
I have searched and can find nothing substantial about this fairytal... more
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Once again we dive into a time bending play about sad women. This time it's Lucy Kirkwood's 2020 play The Welkin; set in 18th century Suffolk/Norfolk, 12 women must decide the fate of another in this epicly jam-packed courtroom(ish) d... more
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Time. Ghosts. Violence. Hope. Academia.
We return to pod favourite Alistair McDowall for his incredible 2022 play The Glow.
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We recorded this 3 years ago and then forgot to make more podcasts. It holds up!!! Declaring this the end of season 1, we'll be back with certified fresh content in 2 weeks time.
Sam Shepard's True West is about two things: truth and... more
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Step 1) Nuclear Meltdown
Step 2) Gang Warfare Over Simpsons Quotes
Step 3) ????
Step 4) The Greatest Story Ever Told
If you're not familiar with the play of post-apocalyptic pop-culture mythology, prepare to have your mind blown, as ... more
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Despite the characters explicitly talking about the cold all the time, prepare to hear about some very hot and sweaty goings on in this William's classic. When a young hot guy walks into a Southern town that's afraid of hot people, t... more
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1) TW, this episode contains quite frank discussions of a variety of grisly topics, including sexual assault and suicide.
2) This podcast is about the original play, NOT the musical version (though we do of course mention th... more
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It was inevitable that at some point we'd bump into the bard on our ever winding theatrical-textual journey, and we do so what in our un-researched opinion is 'one of the more obscure ones.' Cymbeline is a play about a young couple wh... more
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