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Script In Hand

Script in Hand Podcast

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Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 60

A podcast for theatre lovers, where two friends and theatre directors delve into plays and talk text. Each week we read, discuss and dissect a new play script. We lust over punctuation choices, pull characters intentions apart, and generally try our darnedest not to pronounce anything incorrectly. Hosted by Lexie Ward & Meg Robinson.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - performingArts
12/08/2025
#90
🇬🇧 Great Britain - performingArts
11/08/2025
#56
🇬🇧 Great Britain - performingArts
29/07/2025
#68
🇩🇪 Germany - performingArts
01/11/2024
#86

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Season 4 Wrap Up!

Season 4 · Episode 13

Thursday, December 8, 2022 • Duration 23:20

For the final time this season, Lexie and Meg sit down to discuss the 12 plays of Season 4 all together - pondering questions such as
"Which character would you like to see a one person play written about?"
"Which play would you like to see adapted as a radio play/musical?"
and
"Which play would you like to see made in the Muppet Universe?"

Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.
Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Merchandise available HERE.

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Playwright Interview: J Chavez on how to clean your room

Season 4

Thursday, December 1, 2022 • Duration 01:00:07

We are thrilled here at Script In Hand HQ to be welcoming our first guest from the across the pond, playwright, pupeteer and all-round fabulous human being, J.Chavez! Author of our S4.Ep10 play 'how to clean your room,' Jay joins us to talk all things 'clean,' but also about their obsession with puppets, back and future catalogue of work, and just what is the meaning behind the mysterious cycles?!

Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.
Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Jay Chavez (they/them) is a Seattle based playwright, educator, and all around theatre maker. Through the power of Red Bulls they earned a BA in Theatre from Western Washington University, concentrating in Directing, Dramatic Writing, and Education. They were crowned the unofficial title of Lil’ Miss Kennedy Center and Miss Kennedy Center Continental for their play “how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma)” which was also the winner those awards I mentioned previously. “how to clean” is featured in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays, a first of it’s kind anthology of Trans plays written by Trans playwrights for Trans people. It’s been over two decades and Jay is still chasing the knowledge of how wind works. They currently work as a Teaching Artist at Seattle Children’s Theatre teaching playwriting, sketch comedy, and acting. Along with that, they also have the totally real not fake job as a Marine Science Puppeteer at the Seattle Aquarium teaching patrons about empathy around sea creatures.

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Squad Goals by Michelle Payne

Season 4 · Episode 5

Thursday, September 29, 2022 • Duration 51:31

You say Squad, We say Goals! Squad! Goals! Squad Goals!

We're ready to raise the roof off this proverbial podcast stadium and get hyped talking about this epic play of women's football, sky high ambition, female friendship - and Missy Elliot & a banging drum beat! And who better to chat with than our special guest, the author & co-director behind Squad Goals Michelle Payne!

Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.
Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Michelle Payne is a director and published playwright from Essex and currently resident director on Bugsy Malone U.K. tour. As a director she was this year short listed for the prestigious RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2022.

Directing Credits:To Have & To Hold, New musical Mind Over Matter, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dear Dead Jason by Jen Moss (NDT Broadgate), The Liberators by Michelle Payne, My Three Sisters by Holly Rose Hawgood (The Bush), Jess (The Space UK Online which received an ONCOMM for Digital Theatre - The Offies), and she co-directed Squad Goals which she also wrote and which we are talking about today.

In her writing capacity, Michelle was one of the 15 Mercury Playwrights in 2020/21 working on a new play, and is currently being commissioned to write a full length dance play for IE productions. Writing credits include ;Chelsea for the End of the Line Podcast (InkJockey), Enthusiastically, Yes! A New Musical (Long List: ALP & Aria Entertainment Chamber Musical Competition) at The Garrick, West End. Memory Box (winner: Mercury Monologues), The Liberators, Squad Goals and Sad About the Cows at Tristan Bates Theatre.

Teaser Announcement- Bonus Ep incoming!

Season 4

Friday, September 23, 2022 • Duration 02:52

What's this you say? An unexpected bonus vignette of something from Script In Hand? Why not listen immediately to hear the news hot off the press!

Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.
Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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The Funeral Director by Iman Qureshi

Season 4 · Episode 4

Thursday, September 22, 2022 • Duration 37:46

So, you want to be a funeral director? Then step right up because Papatango Prize Winner The Funeral Director has got you covered! But when the past starts to encroach on Ayeesha;s present and she's inherited the business from her mum - can she really separate her work life from her personal life? And how long can she hide away her true self amongst the dead bodies she surrounds herself with? Plus Meg and Lexie discuss how at the end of the day, tea is Always the right choice.

Please be aware that in the show there is one scene in which a baby is prepared for burial, and we discuss that on today's episode between 08.30-11.15

Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.
Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Iman Qureshi Website/Blog
https://imanqureshi.com

Theatre Show Trailer for ETT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHH11m8Pr0

English Touring Theatre Interviews for Tour
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeF7VNvPJcQ

Iman Qureshi Interview with Culture Calling

The History Boys by Alan Bennett

Season 4 · Episode 3

Thursday, September 15, 2022 • Duration 49:29

We're revving up our motorcycles (though perhaps that's not the most appropriate form of transport given what happens in this play), and gearing up to talk about The History Boys by Alan Bennett. Voted Britains Favourite Play of all time (it beat Macbeth, Meg is furious), we're ready to dive into what makes a character an anti-hero, how many boys are too many boys -and just how do women fare in The History Boys?
NB This episode does discuss sensitive topics including the groping of older school aged boys.

Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.
Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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The French Brothel Scene from the Broadway Production
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt11PZb0kec

Full Alan Bennett Bio
https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/alan-bennett

The History Boys Film Trailer
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+history+boys+trailer

English Touring Theatre Britain’s Favourite Play Poll

Reasons You Should(N't) Love Me by Amy Trigg

Season 4 · Episode 2

Thursday, September 8, 2022 • Duration 43:36

Reasons you should love this episode are numerous, but number one on the list has to be that we had the playwright herself Amy Trigg join us to talk all about her award winning play! With Kazoos, Oxo Cubes, sparkly sleeves and DnD, this play has everything - and you are forewarned there will be a full Lexie/Amy nerd out over Dungeons and Dragons whilst Meg looks on amused. Join us as we join Juno who is making her way through her 20s in a relatable haphazard manner.

Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.
Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Amy Trigg is an actor and writer from Essex. She was the first wheelchair user to graduate from a performance course at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Her acting credits include work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe, Netflix, BBC and Universal.
Amy is a writer for the upcoming BBC series ‘Ralph and Katie’ . She is also writing her first radio drama for BBC Radio 3. Alongside this, Amy has original projects in development with ITV Studios, Little Door, The Forge and Two Rivers Media. Her essay ‘An Ode to Improvisation (and Poehler and Fey)’ features in the book ‘Feminist’s Don’t Wear Pink (and other lies)’.
Amy is on attachment with the Kiln Theatre, after winning one of the six 2022 Playwrights' Scheme Bursaries. Amy is currently part of the BBC TV Drama Writers' Programme 2021 (partnered with Eleven Film).

A Very Expensive Poison by Lucy Prebble

Season 4 · Episode 1

Thursday, September 1, 2022 • Duration 44:45

We're baaccckk!! And we bring you puppets, poison and dancing girls emerging from bags in this our first episode of Season 4! We're discussing the epic Lucy Prebble and her most recent play A Very Expensive Poison based on the book of the same name by Luke Harding. A wildly theatrical retelling of the heartbreaking poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, this play has everything. Genuinely.

Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.
Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Variety Review
https://variety.com/2019/legit/reviews/a-very-expensive-poison-review-1203326438/

The Guardian Review
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/sep/06/a-very-expensive-poison-review-lucy-prebble-litvinenko

Time Out Review
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/a-very-expensive-poison-review

The Litvinenko Inquiry
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/493860/The-Litvinenko-Inquiry-H-C-695-web.pdf

Season 3 Wrap Up!

Season 3 · Episode 13

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 • Duration 44:34

For the final time this season, Lexie and Meg sit down to discuss the 12 plays of Season 3 all together - pondering questions such as
"Which play should be on the school curriculum?"
"Which playwright would you want to write the biographical play of your life?"
And
"Which character would you want as your right hand person during a zombie apocalypse?"

Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.
Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Home, I'm Darling by Laura Wade

Season 3 · Episode 12

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 • Duration 46:29

We're jiving our way into the final episode of Season 3! Doesn't time fly when your mixing up cocktails and maintaining the perfect 50s lifestyle homespun dream. And we're delighted to be joined by our final special guest of the season, Artistic Director of Theatre by the Lake Liz Stevenson, to talk all about this play; which will also be the first TBTL production on stage post the pandemic in October 2020 - exciting times!

Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.
Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)

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Liz Stevenson is the Artistic Director of Theatre by the Lake. She was the co-founder and Artistic Director of Junction 8 Theatre. In 2018 she was the Associate Director on the UK and Ireland tour of the National Theatre’s MACBETH. As the winner of the 2015 JMK Young Director Award, she directed BARBARIANS at the Young Vic which was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.

Work as a Director includes: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Theatr Clwyd), LANCASTRIANS (Lancashire tour, Junction 8 Theatre), THE SECRET GARDEN (York Theatre Royal, Theatre by the Lake), UNDER THE MARKET ROOF (Chorley Market, Junction 8 Theatre), HANDBAGGED (Theatre by the Lake), HOW MY LIGHT IS SPENT (Royal Exchange Theatre, Sherman Theatre, Theatre by the Lake), MACBETH (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster), BARBARIANS (Young Vic).

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