The Play Podcast
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. In each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We discuss the play’s origins, its plot, themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing. Visit www.theplaypodcast.com for more information, including extra Footnotes on each episode and a complete list and profiles of our guests. Visit www.patreon.com/theplaypodcast to become a Patron and enjoy additional content and generously support the podcast. Thank you. Also, listen to The Play Review for reviews of some of the current shows on stage in London.
Episodes
Episode 079: The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Sean McEvoy
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
A new Jez Butterworth play is a theatrical event. The Hills of Ca...
Episode 078: The Lover and The Collection by Harold Pinter
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Lindsay Posner
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
We have a double-bill in this episode of two short plays wr...
Episode 077: An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People is a fable of tr...
Episode 076: Othello by William Shakespeare
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Farah Karim-Cooper
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Shakespeare’s devastating exploration of race, reputation and jealousy...
Episode 075: The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Matthew Dunster
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Harold Pinter’s disturbing exploration of toxic masculinity and sexual m...
Episode 074: Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Henrik Ibsen’s dark family drama Ghosts provoked outrage when it was publis...
Episode 073: The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Maria Delgado
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Federico Garcia Lorca’s unsparing drama The House of B...
Episode 072: She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Tom Littler
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘sentimental’ or ‘laughing’ comedy She Stoops t...
Episode 071: Clyde's by Lynn Nottage
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Lynette Linton
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Lynn Nottage’s play Clyde’s is set in a truck-stop diner on the outskirts of Read...
Episode 070: King Lear by William Shakespeare
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Paul Prescott
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
The poet Percy Shelley called King Lear “the most perfect specimen of the...
Episode 069: A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guests: Holly Race Roughan
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge tells the tragic stor...
Episode 068: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guests: Ivan Wise
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Pygmalion is arguably George Bernard Shaw’s most famous play, partly because...
Episode 067: Red Pitch by Tyrell Williams
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guests: Tyrell Williams and Daniel Bailey
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Tyrell William’s award-winning, debut play Red Pitch is ...
Episode 066: The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Professor Eamonn Jordan
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Martin McDonagh’s 2004 play The Pillowman is an unsettling mix...
Episode 065: Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo and Franca Rame
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guests: Tom Basden and Daniel Raggett
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Accidental Death of an Anarc...
Episode 064: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Emma Smith
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream has all the ingredients of classic...
Episode 063: Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Josie Rourke
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Brian Friel’s magical memory play Dancing at Lughnasa is set at the time...
Episode 062: Private Lives by Noël Coward
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Oliver Soden
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Noël Coward’s play Private Lives is both a dazzling dramatic comedy and an exc...
The Play Podcast - 061 - Sea Creatures by Cordelia Lynn
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Cordelia Lynn
The Play Podcast is a podcast dedicated to exploring the greatest new and classic plays. In each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
Cordelia Lynn’s play Sea Creatures is a poetic explorat...
The Play Podcast - 060 - A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
Host: Douglas Schatz
Guest: Thomas Keith
The Play Podcast is a podcast dedicated to exploring the greatest new and classic plays. In each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the ...
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