Irish Theatre At Play

Irish Theatre At Play

Hi everyone! Welcome to Irish Theatre at Play, Ireland’s newest theatre podcast, that focuses on all things theatre and performance. My name is Dr Carole Quigley, and I’ll be your host as we delve into different areas of the theatre weekly. Each episode, we’ll be joined by experts in their field, and we’ll ask them how it works, why it works, and what the theatre industry means to them. We’ll leave no stone unturned as we look to break down that fourth wall!

  1. Episode Eighteen - Anna Simpson

    07/16/2021

    Episode Eighteen - Anna Simpson

    Anna is a freelance theatre director, playwright, and physical theatre practitioner.   Since training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she was the youngest ever recipient of the Elsa Roberts Award for Directing, Anna founded Quintessence Theatre in Louth, with whom she is the Artistic Director. Since then Anna has created plays all across Ireland and the UK, specialising in collaborative physical ensemble storytelling on socially provocative issues. Anna was an Education Practitioner with Shakespeare's Globe, London, and a Young Creative Associate of the Pleasance Theatre, London and Edinburgh.  CRACKS, an originally devised play exploring suicide and mental illness in Ireland, toured nationally in 2018, and her own adaptation of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA won the Broadway World Ireland Regional Award 2018/2019 for Best New Play. BEHIND LOCKED DOORS, a devised play exploring abuse in lockdown, premiered last month in the Drogheda Arts Festival, and can be streamed on their… ​... and all 4 episodes can be streamed for free on their YouTube Channel here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCQyxh1NGoS8YDlCsvl_zhfg Her latest digital play, AFLOAT, with Sunday’s Child Theatre, will play as part of the digital programme of Summerhall in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival next month. You can get more info and tickets to watch it here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/afloat-by-eva-o-connor-and-hildgegard-ryan Website: https://annasimpson050987.wixsite.com/annasimpson Insta: @the_director_anna_simpson   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quintessencetheatreco/ Twitter: @annasimpson87 @quintessencepro Drogheda Arts Festival - YouTube Drogheda Arts Festival is back with an exclusive programme of events; online, offsite, outdoors and live over summer 2021. Beginning on the June Bank Holiday..

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Hi everyone! Welcome to Irish Theatre at Play, Ireland’s newest theatre podcast, that focuses on all things theatre and performance. My name is Dr Carole Quigley, and I’ll be your host as we delve into different areas of the theatre weekly. Each episode, we’ll be joined by experts in their field, and we’ll ask them how it works, why it works, and what the theatre industry means to them. We’ll leave no stone unturned as we look to break down that fourth wall!