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'trying to understand better what it means to be alive now'

Stage Directions June 2017

Ellen McDougall

'trying to understand better what it means to be alive now'

In this episode I discuss Donald Trump and performance with my brilliant colleagues Bryce Lease and Sophie Nield. I talk about a paradoxical and strange evening of theatre in January 1886. And I have a chat with the amazing Ellen McDougall about her first season as Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill.

Podcast outline:

  • 00.00.00 Introduction
  • 00.00.49 Donald Trump and Performance: Introduction
  • 00.07. 57 Donald Trump and Performance: Discussion
  • 00.35.54 Strange Evenings of Theatre: 27 January 1886
  • 00.47.56 Interview: Ellen McDougall
  • 01.15.02  End

Additional Information

You can find out more about Bryce Lease and Sophie Nield here:

  • Bryce Lease
  • Sophie Nield

In my essay on that evening of theatre, I refer to a couple of essays. These are the full references:

  • Driver, Beverley R. "Herman Bang's Prose: "The Narrative as Theatre"." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 4, no. 2 (1970): 79-89.
  • Bjørby, Pål. 'The Prison House of Sexuality: Homosexuality in Herman Bang Scholarship.' Scandinavian Studies 58, no. 3 (Summer 1986): 223-55.

And you can find out more about - and book for - the new Gate season here:

  • Gate Theatre website

Music by Nick Powell and Nick McCarthy
Graphics by Liam Jarvis
Support gratefully received from Eloise Whitmore, Elaine McGirr and the Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London.

NEXT EPISODE: Chris Megson and Nadine Holdsworth on Theatre & Brexit and Aoife Monks on An Octoroon and the cute, the zany, and the interesting.

June 17, 2017 by Dan Rebellato.
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    • 7 Ghosts
    • Cavalry
    • Chekhov in Hell
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    • Killer
    • Mile End
    • Negative Signs of Progress
    • My Life Is a Series of People Saying Goodbye
    • Restless Dreams
    • Slow Air
    • Slow Beasts
    • Static
    • Theatremorphosis
    • You & Me
    • Zola: Blood, Sex & Money
    • Complete List of Publications
    • 1956 and All That
    • Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945
    • Contemporary European Playwrights
    • Contemporary European Theatre Directors
    • Modern British Playwriting 2000-2009
    • No Theatre Guild Attraction Are We
    • On Churchill's Influences
    • Paris Commune
    • Playwriting
    • Sarah Kane before Blasted
    • Sarah Kane Documentary
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