4 episodes
Practice Makes… the Oxford Reimagining Performance Podcast Oxford University
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Practice Makes is the podcast for the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Reimagining Performance Network (https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/reimagining-performance-network). Each episode stages a discussion between a leading performance scholar and a theatre practitioner – actors, playwrights, directors and more — to crack open the connections between theatre research and performance in practice. Presented by Helen Dallas and Madeleine Saidenberg, two Oxford DPhil students who research theatre and have worked as directors, writers, and dramaturgs, the podcast explores current questions in theatre scholarship in Oxford and beyond, from academic and practice-based perspectives.
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Practice Makes… The Multi-Hyphenate Career
Helen and Madeleine are joined by Frey Kwa Hawking, dramaturg and critic, and Hannah Greenstreet, playwright, critic, and academic, to talk about their varied career roles, how they interact, and why theatre matters to us. Hannah Greenstreet's reviews mentioned in this episode are:
Anatomy of a Suicide - https://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/redux-review-anatomy-suicide/
When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other - https://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/sufficiently-tortured-national-theatre/
Top Girls - https://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-top-girls-national-theatre/
Names of speakers: Hannah Greenstreet, Frey Kwa Hawking, Helen Dallas, Madeleine Saidenberg
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Practice Makes… Eighteenth-Century Theatre Today
David Taylor, specialist in eighteenth-century theatre, and Colin Blumenau, former Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, talk about performing eighteenth-century drama on the modern stage. David is a founding member of the R/18 Collective, a community of scholars ‘reactivating Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre for the twenty-first century’ https://www.r18collective.org/
The Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, is the last working Regency playhouse in England.
The plays mentioned in this episode are:
Black-Eyed Susan, Douglas Jerrold (1829)
Who's the Dupe, Hannah Cowley (1779)
The School for Scandal, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1777)
The Rivals, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775)
Wives and They Were and Maids as They Are, Elizabeth Inchbald (1797)
The Massacre, Elizabeth Inchbald (1792)
Venice Preserv'd, Thomas Otway (1682)
The Provoked Wife, John Vanbrugh (1697)
The London Merchant, George Lillo (1731)
The overturning of Roe v. Wade in the USA, which happened a few weeks before the time of recording, is referenced in this episode. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ -
Practice Makes… Documentary Theatre
Alecky Blythe, creator of verbatim company Recorded Delivery and writer of Our Generation, and Molly Flynn, who specialises in contemporary Ukrainian and Russian documentary theatre, talk about documentary theatre in the UK and Ukraine. Donation links Molly highlights in the podcast:
Come Back Alive - https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/#donate-army-card-monthly
Razom for Ukraine - https://www.razomforukraine.org/donate/
Note that this episode addresses war, murder, and sexual violence. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ -
Practice Makes… Disabled-Led Theatre
Jess Thom of Touretteshero and Hannah Simpson, author of Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance, discuss relaxed performance, accessibility, and the Touretteshero production of Beckett’s Not I. Madeleine and Helen host this first episode of the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities’ Reimagining Performance Podcast. The episode deals extensively with ableism and includes swear words. It also features a special guest appearance from Jess’s cat, Monkey! Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/