Dischord : Figuring Out Musical Theatre adam lenson

This episode I talk to Jethro Compton and Darren Clark, the writers of 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and track the creation of a this new British musical adapted from the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. We discuss topics including adaptation, time, collaboration and kindness.

Read Darren's blog about musical theatre here and see the show's Southwark Playhouse page here

Find Dischord on twitter here
Find Adam Lenson Productions' website here and Twitter page here.

Part two of a conversation with Guardian journalist Stuart Heritage and Actor/Writer Alex Young. Following a January 2018 article where Stuart Heritage said he hated musicals, we debate whether you can really hate a whole artform and discuss how speaking to those who disagree with you can teach everyone something new. (Stuart's original article is at bit.ly/2rwRuiV and Alex's twitter thread in response is at bit.ly/2Bo1QRY)

Kicking off series two, this week is the first part of a conversation with Guardian journalist Stuart Heritage and Actor/Writer Alex Young. Following a January 2018 article where Stuart Heritage said he hated musicals, we debate whether you can really hate a whole artform and discuss how speaking to those who disagree with you can teach everyone something new. (Stuart's original article is at http://bit.ly/2rwRuiV and Alex's twitter thread in response is at http://bit.ly/2Bo1QRY)

On this episode we investigate the word cheese, ask some people what it means and wonder about why it is so regularly applied to musical theatre.

This week I talk to director Andy Whyment about resistance, politics, active engagement and labels. Andy is the artistic director of Squint and we met in 2016 when we both won Kevin Spacey Foundation awards. But his was for theatre and mine musical theatre. In this episode we ask what divides our work and what unites it.

We speak to Tony and Grammy award winning composer-lyricist Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening, American Psycho, Whisper House) about putting pop and rock music onstage, the boundary between scenes and songs, seeing the world through headphones and constructing a theatrical reality.