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Sinopsis
A podcast about theatre and performance, based in Scotland.
Episodios
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Episode 31: Ordinary Violence and The Last Of Us videogames
08/10/2020 Duración: 31minIn a departure from my usual subjects, this episode analyses two video games - "The Last of Us" and "The Last of Us 2", both by Naughty Dog. The analysis discusses post-apocalyptic literature, 'ordinary violence' and revenge tragedy. Contains spoilers of both games.
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Episode 30: A Brief History of Emergencies
19/03/2020 Duración: 44minThis episode of Stage Blether offers a brief history of the phenomenon of the 'emergency'. It is recorded at the beginning of UK responses to the global pandemic caused by the Covid 19 virus, and also speaks to the peculiarities of the states of emergency and emergency measures that are being implemented in response to this pandemic.
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Episode 29: Precarious Spectatorship
15/10/2019 Duración: 39minThis episode discusses my forthcoming book "Precarious Spectatorship: Theatre and image in an age of emergencies" (Manchester University Press, 2019). Many of the ideas in this book were first trialled on the Stage Blether podcast, so my heartfelt thanks to anybody and everybody who has listened over the last few years. Topics discussed include Islamic State, States of Emergency, the Refugee Crisis and storytelling.
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Episode 28: Oedipus in the age of Post Truth
15/08/2019 Duración: 37minThis episode reviews Robert Icke's Dutch Language production of "Oedipus" at the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh, part of the Edinburgh International Festival. The general conversation is about the ways in which this production relocates Oedipus in a world of post-truth, and the ways in which Sophocles' text still presents challenges to contemporary audiences.
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Episode 8: The Name of Terrorism
13/12/2018 Duración: 28minEpisode 8: The Name of Terrorism by Sam Haddow
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Episode 7: Fighting with Images
13/12/2018 Duración: 32minEpisode 7: Fighting with Images by Sam Haddow
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Episode 9 Impossible Communities
13/12/2018 Duración: 29minEpisode 9 Impossible Communities by Sam Haddow
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Episode 12: Terrorism Part 2: Death and the Machine
13/12/2018 Duración: 34minEpisode 12: Terrorism Part 2: Death and the Machine by Sam Haddow
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Episode 27: Children out of time
13/12/2018 Duración: 30minThis episode reviews the production "Wendy and Peter Pan" at the Lyceum in Edinburgh, talking about theories of childhood, temporalities and grief.
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Episode 26: La Maladie de la Mort
16/08/2018 Duración: 25minThis is a strange episode, documenting my immediate response to Alice Birch's adaptation of Margeurite Duras' play "La Maladie de la Mort", playing as part of the International Festival at the Edinburgh Fringe. This play upset me more than any theatre that I have seen for a long time, and I wanted to document this response without finesse. Don't expect coherence.
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Episode 25: I Don't Belong Here
09/08/2018 Duración: 30minThis episode offers reviews of Chris Thorpe's "Status", ThisEgg's "dress" and Dante or Die's "User Not Found", all part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2018. There are also discussions of theatrical spectatorship, the MeToo movement and Derrida, amongst other things.
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Episode 24: Inventing the Shipwreck
08/08/2018 Duración: 29minThis episode offers reviews of Penelope Skinner's play "Angry Alan", Knaive Theatre's "War With Newts" and Darkfield's "Flight", all showing at the Edinburgh fringe 2018. There is also a discussion of Paul Virilio's theories on speed, and the ways in which the problems of acceleration manifest in the three shows analysed here.
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Episode 23: On Weakness
22/08/2017 Duración: 24minWhy is weakness important? This episode reviews two Edinburgh Fringe shows - Beadledom's "Omega" and Chris Thorpe and Rachel Bagshaw's "The Shape of the Pain", under the topic of 'weakness' and 'story'. There are discussions of Simon Critchley, St Paul and Giorgio Agamben thrown in for good measure.
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Episode 21: A Monster Calls
17/01/2017 Duración: 34minThis episode examines Patrick Ness' book "A Monster Calls", and J. A. Bayona's film adaptation, in the context of Jacques Derrida's "Work of Mourning". **Spoiler alert: please do not listen if you are interested in reading the book or watching the film, and have not already done so.**
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Series 2, Episode 1: Amateur (Half) Hour
26/11/2016 Duración: 33minSeries 2 starts with a discussion of the 'amateur' in performance. How do we engage with amateur performances, and performers, in ways that do justice to their work without unfairly critiquing it? This episode includes a discussion of Bernard Stiegler, and a recent commemoration of the 1947 partitioning of India and Pakistan. References to the US elections are kept to a minimum.