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Northern Stage Theatre Podcast

Northern Stage

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Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 26

The Northern Stage Theatre Podcast is the official podcast of Northern Stage, an inspirational and creative theatre based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Check back for an assortment of interviews, stories, theatre-related chat and more with theatre-makers, artists, and creatives.

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🇩🇪 Germany - performingArts
06/02/2026
#84
🇩🇪 Germany - performingArts
05/02/2026
#50
🇬🇧 Great Britain - performingArts
09/07/2025
#88
🇬🇧 Great Britain - performingArts
31/03/2025
#92
🇬🇧 Great Britain - performingArts
30/03/2025
#62

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https://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/
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https://www.live.org.uk/
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https://arconline.co.uk/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Against_Racism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/culturalfreelancers
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https://www.facebook.com/MongrelUK/
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EP.26 - Actor to director with Maria Crocker

Season 1 · Episode 26

Friday, October 16, 2020 • Duration 57:19

This week on the Northern Stage’s podcast. we talk to theatre director and actor Maria Crocker. Maria tells us about the transition from actor to director, working at the National Theatre, getting boxer as a career option, and making theatre like Gogglebox. It's a thoroughly whizzy hour.

Recorded on Monday 12th October 2020.

Download the transcript here.

Notes

Maria Crocker on Twitter: twitter.com/maria_crocker

Rachel Chavkin: http://theteamplays.org/about/core-company/rachel-chavkin/

The Team: http://theteamplays.org/

JMK Trust: https://www.jmktrust.org/

Hadestown: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/hadestown

Greyscale Theatre Company: https://www.greyscale.org.uk/

Pinocchio: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/pinocchio

John Tiffany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tiffany

Mood Music: https://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2018/mood-music

Headlong: https://headlong.co.uk/

The Letter Room: http://www.theletterroomtheatre.co.uk/

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EP. 25 - Solo theatre making with Luca Rutherford

Season 1 · Episode 25

Friday, October 2, 2020 • Duration 54:12

This week we talk to writer, performer, and water drinking human Luca Rutherford. We chat about being a solo maker and how many people that requires, reading and not reading books and apple and cinnamon pancakes. It’s a properly great hour with a properly great person. Give it a listen.

Download the transcript here.

Notes

Audre Lorde - https://alp.org/about/audre

Linda Bloomfield blog - https://www.lindajbloomfield.com/news-and-blog/the-value-of-theatre-and-some-other-thoughts

Tanuja Amarasuriya - http://sleepdogs.org/

Melanie Wilson - https://melaniewilson.org.uk/

Bethany Wells - http://cargocollective.com/bethanywells

Jenni Jackson - https://www.jenniferjackson.net/

Maria Crocker - https://twitter.com/maria_crocker

Lizzie J Klotz - https://www.lizziejklotz.co.uk/

Camisado Club: https://www.camisadoclub.co.uk/

Luca's details: twitter: LucaRutherford | Instagram: luca_rutherford | website:

EP.16 - Kitchen Zoo: Hannah Goudie-Hunter and Bob Nicholson

Season 1 · Episode 16

Friday, July 24, 2020 • Duration 01:11:36

This week on the Northern Stage podcast we have a conversation with the Hannah Goudie-Hunter and Bob Nicholson the magical folks behind Kitchen Zoo. Bob, Hannah & Mark chat about making processes, the demands of doing every job to get something in front of an audience and the value of family work and how it’s viewed.

This is a great chance to look behind the curtain and delve into Kitchen Zoo's rehearsal room to find out just how they make their incredible shows.

Special thanks to Katie Doherty and Jeremy Bradfield for the original compositions heard within this recording.

Download the transcript here.

Resources

Kitchen Zoo: https://www.facebook.com/KitchenZoo/

The Owl and the Pussycat: https://youtu.be/tl4E_L5N7kw

The Tin Foil Astronaut: https://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/family/the-tin-foil-astronaut-0

The Three Bears: https://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/family/the-three-bears

WOLF!: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1522304367894020

NORTH: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/north-companies-2019

ARC Stockton: https://arconline.co.uk/

EP.15 - Harambee Pasadia: Hannabiell Sanders & Yilis Suriel

Season 1 · Episode 15

Friday, July 17, 2020 • Duration 01:08:44

This week's episode is a full-on happiness injection. Mark and Louie speak to the Ambassadors of positivity and fun Hannabiell Sanders & Yilis Suriel. We talk about the Harambee Pasadia festival a 4-day family camping extravaganza in celebration of diverse cultures, foods, music, artists, and fusions of the African diaspora, in a conversation packed full of great thinking, positivity and laughter, something we all need right now.

Have a listen it will lift your soul

Download the transcript here.

Resources

Harambee Pasadia: https://www.harambeepasadia.com/

Ladies of Midnight Blue: https://www.hannabiell.com/ladies-of-midnight-blue.html

Volunteer Scotland: https://www.volunteerscotland.net/

Angelou Centre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angelou_Centre

Leading Link: http://www.leadinglink.co.uk/

Jack Drum Arts: https://www.jackdrum.co.uk/

Northern Alchemy: https://www.wearenorthernalchemy.com/

The Cumberland Arms: http://www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk/

Rutgers Centre for Latino Arts & Culture:

EP.14 - Sound design with Matt Tuckey

Season 1 · Episode 14

Friday, July 10, 2020 • Duration 01:02:08

This week on the Northern Stage Theatre Podcast, Mark and Humira talk to sound designer and artist, Matthew Tuckey. In this conversation, we talk to Matt about sound, its complexities, its abilities, and its infinite possibilities to shape stories.

There are some really exciting opportunities that sound offers for the future of the theatre industry by offering other platforms to showcase the work made within the region. So please do check out Matt's webinars from the 13th to the 20th and the 27th of July - find out more here.

Download the transcript here.

Resource links:
An Introduction to Audio Drama: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-audio-drama-and-voiceover-recording-techniques-tickets-111801806212
Nick John Williams: http://www.nickjohnwilliams.co.uk/
A Christmas Carol: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/news/cast-and-creative-team-announced-for-a-christmas-carol
Alice in Wonderland: https://www.northernstage.co.uk/news/cast-and-creative-team-announcement-alice-in-wonderland
Mortal Fools: https://www.mortalfools.org.uk/
Alphabetti Theatre: https://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/
Novo Productions: https://www.novoproductions.co.uk/

EP.13 - Curious Arts with Phil Douglas

Season 1 · Episode 13

Friday, July 3, 2020 • Duration 01:07:30

This week on the Northern Stage Theatre Podcast, we get curious with Phil Douglas, Artistic Director of Curious Arts - a producer, curator, leader and change maker. In this conversation Mark talks with Phil about enabling change, following an idea that is driven by heart and moving a festival on line. Hope you enjoy.

Download the transcript here.

Resource links:

Curious Arts: https://curiousarts.org.uk/
Dance City: https://www.dancecity.co.uk/
Queer Arts North: https://curiousarts.org.uk/queer-arts-north
Audio Queer and Stay Home Stay Queer: https://curiousarts.org.uk/projects
Homotopia Festival: https://www.homotopia.net/
Contact Manchester: https://contactmcr.com/
dandysocpic: https://twitter.com/dandysocpic
Mandla Rae: http://artreach.biz/our-people/mandla-rae/
Ro Hardaker: http://www.rohardaker.co.uk/
Roma Havers: https://twitter.com/amorbackwards
Bordello Theatre: https://www.bordellotheatre.net/
Ricky Beedle-Blair: https://twitter.com/RikkiBB
Jen Carss: Queerious Podcast: Zoe Murtagh: Richard Bliss: Spectacular Drag Storytime: Lawnmowers Theatre Company: Jeffery Epstein: Filthy Rich: Athlete A:

EP.12 - Theatre of the Oppressed - A conversation with Rosa Stourac McCreery

Season 1 · Episode 12

Friday, June 26, 2020 • Duration 01:09:17

This week we have our first international guest as Louie speaks to activist, director, writer, actor, aerialist, change maker and enabler Rosa Stourac McCreery who is all the way in Canada.

Our conversation takes us through theatrical forms of Theatre of the Oppressed, community theatre, legislative theatre. Rosa also speaks about her work making theatre for social change with Cardboard Citizens and as a founding member of social enterprise skate park Dynamix.

A fascinating insight into the application of theatre in different cultural and creative settings.

Download the transcript here.

Resource Links:

Theatre of The Oppressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed
Cardboard Citizens: https://cardboardcitizens.org.uk/
Dynamix: https://www.dynamixcic.org/
Red Ladder Theatre Company: http://www.redladder.co.uk/
Rock Against Racism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Against_Racism
Martha Gellhorn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn
Charles Mungoshi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mungoshi
Augusto Boal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal
Tin Arts: http://tinarts.co.uk/ The Encounter - Complicite: A Doll's House: The Grizzlies: Killing Eve: Schitt's Creek: Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel: Yanis Varoufakis: Talking To My Daughter About The Economy: Miriam Toews:

EP.11 - 'What are you prepared to give?' a conversation with Martin Hylton

Season 1 · Episode 11

Friday, June 12, 2020 • Duration 01:15:44

This week, we move to a series of conversations that explore where we find ourselves as a country, and as an interconnected world. We’re examining the role the arts, and artists, have in reflecting that world, and in making and shaping it.

This conversation is between Louie and Martin Hylton, Artistic Director of Gateway Studios – joined by writer, theatre maker in the making, and Executive Assistant Humira Imtiaiz and of course, our Podcast Producer, Johnny Rothwell.

This episode is an emotionally honest expression and exploration of the stark realities and difficult experiences that racism in all its forms, causes, and how we are more than ever overdue the change that we are seeking.

Download the transcript here.

Resource Links:

Gateway Studio Project: https://www.gatewaystudios.co.uk/

Northern School of Contemporary Dance: https://www.nscd.ac.uk/

Phoenix Dance Theatre: https://www.phoenixdancetheatre.co.uk/

Tees Valley Dance: https://www.facebook.com/Tees-Valley-Dance-286854274806681/

Dance City: https://www.dancecity.co.uk/

Clore Leadership Programme: https://www.cloreleadership.org/

Where Do We Belong Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-DijhCKi6Q

Ep. 10 - A boss night out with Vici Wreford-Sinnott

Season 1 · Episode 10

Friday, June 5, 2020 • Duration 01:10:57

This week, Mark and Louie had an extraordinary, funny and life-affirming conversation with director, writer, teacher, activist and rebel punk rocker Vici Wreford Sinnott. Vici is the Artistic Director of Little Cog, an exciting arts organisation specialising in Disability Art, theatre, and training and in this episode we discover more about the being on the edges of the status quo, trying to bring about change with engaging and exciting work, and having a boss night out.

Warning: this episode may make you cry (in a good way).

Transcript available to download here.

Resource links:

Little Cog: www.viciwreford-sinnott.com/little-cog.html

Disonsortia: disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/disconsortia-a-disabled-artist-led-consortium-of-extraordinary-voices/

Disability Arts Online: disabilityarts.online/

ARCADEA: www.arcadea.org/

Another England: www.viciwreford-sinnott.com/another-england---a-punch-packed-play-by-disabled-writer-is-a-call-to-action.html

Siege: homemcr.org/production/siege-part-1/

Homemakers: homemcr.org/event/homemakers/

EP.9 - Amsterdam: Matthew Xia

Season 1 · Episode 9

Friday, May 29, 2020 • Duration 01:03:46

This week, Mark & Louie talk to Matthew Xia the Artistic Director of Actors Touring Company. Matthew is a director, composer, broadcaster, journalist and DJ and one fo the first DJ’s on Radio 1 Extra and in this conversation we talk with Matthew about process, rehearsal rooms, opportunity and of course music. This is a great hour, which we hope will make you feel really energised and eager to get into a rehearsal room and make something afterwards.

Transcript available to download here.

Resource links:

Actors Touring Company (ATC): www.atctheatre.com

Orange Tree Theatre: www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk/

Amsterdam (play): www.atctheatre.com/productions/amsterdam-2020

International Performing Rights: https://iprltd.co.uk/

Chiarsocuro: stagedoorapp.com/lyn-gardner/review-chiaroscuro?ia=254

Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester: www.royalexchange.co.uk

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