Lights Up! The Real Putney Theatre Company
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Entertaining, thrilling and uplifting the Putney Theatre Company's dedicated podcast features show reviews, interviews with directors, cast and crew, and feedback from our wonderful audiences. We're a regional theatre working with the community to encourage new writing, new actors, offering fresh perspectives and familiar drama. Come and see us at the South West End!
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Beginning by David Eldridge
Cast preview with Debra Bond ( Laura) and Des Healy (Danny). Interviewed by Cait they discuss the themes and drama of David Eldridges powerful play Beginning, directed by Ben Clare.Laura's thrown a housewarming party at her new flat. Danny is the last man standing. It's meant to be isn't it? Or is it? They're both single. They both really like each other. But can they take the leap?A brilliantly observed, funny, poignant play about being fortyish and single and being open to falling in ...
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The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones cast members Isabella (Susie), Ava (Lindsey) and Andrew (Mr Harvey) interviewed by Cait (Grandma Lynn). Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones has been a bestseller throughout the world and the 2009 film, directed by Peter Jackson starring Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon won a number of international awards.Now a major new production by the Putney Theatre Company, with a wonderful ensemble cast and crew led by director Frances...
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Scandaltown
Episode featuring Scandaltown by Mike Bartlett, a new production from the Putney Theatre Company, directed by Stuart Watson. Cait interviews cast members Lucy Oglesby, Louisa Pead and Sammy Moore.About the play: Moral and progressive young heroine Phoebe Virtue disguises herself as an IT consultant and journeys to London to rescue her brother Jack from the temptations of the depraved metropolis, where she suspects he is taking drugs and reading the Daily Telegraph.Meanwhile, vampy, sche...
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The Children by Lucy Kirkwood
Cait interviews Frances, Mel and Paul, the cast of Lucy Kirkwood's tense drama, The Children.Hazel and Robin live in a cottage by the sea because their house has been made uninhabitable by a catastrophic radiation leak at the nearby nuclear power station where they both worked. One day Rose, an old colleague, arrives on a visit. Her visit stirs up memories and reflections on life, love and relationships, but why has she come back after many years away?The play poses pressing and challen...
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My Fair lady
Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe's celebrated musical comes to the South West End!Director: Tom Sainsbury and Musical Director Richard Campbell lead a fabulous cast and crew, with the classic songs, 'I Could Have Danced All Night', 'Get Me to the Church on Time', 'Wouldn’t It Be Loverly', 'On the Street Where You Live', extravagant dancing and pinpoint performances of Eliza, Professor Higgins, Freddie and Colonel Hugh Pickering. A brilliant family production for Christmas.This new podcast...
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Amadeus
One of the great plays of the 20th century, Amadeus is a riveting, must-see story about the difference between talent and true virtuosity. A sublimely operatic, darkly engrossing take on music, madness and…whisper it... murder.In this latest episode of Light's Up! Cait interviews three members of the Amadeus cast: Paul, Nathan and Emily. Director: Ian HighamCast:Antonio Salieri: Paul DineenWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Nathan ChatelierConstanze Weber (later Mozart): Emily McCormickJoseph II,...