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This 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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This 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 Isla…
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This 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 aud…
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This 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 ex…
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This 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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Series 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 e…
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