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Playwright Nathan Queely Dennis On Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz

Playwright Nathan Queely Dennis joins us on Close-Up Culture to discuss his debut play, Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz. Your debut play, Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz, received widespread acclaim. How has your journey from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the Royal Court influenced your creative process? I don’t think my creative process has changed much, It was a very self-affirming process from start…
Josie Dale-Jones On A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing

The critically acclaimed show, A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here, which premiered at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won a Scotsman Fringe First Award, will headline the Shoreditch Town Hall’s Spring Season as the first programmed event of 2025. Lead artist, performer, and producer Josie Dale-Jones will return to the stage to…
Actor & Writer Sarah Cameron-West Talks Karen

Actor, writer and producer Sarah Cameron-West stops by on Close-Up Culture to chat about her critically-acclaimed show, KAREN. Hi Sarah! It is a pleasure to be speaking with you. How is your 2025 so far? Hi there! Such a treat to be chatting to you as well. 2025 has been a great year so far…
Harriet Chomley & Sophie Robertson On Posh Girls

Harriet Chomley and Sophie Robertson join us on Close-Up Culture to chat about their show, Posh Girls, which opens at Kings Head Theatre on January 28th. Hi Harriet and Sophie, it’s lovely to be chatting with you! First things first, in your own words, what is Posh Girls about? HC: At its core Posh Girls is about…
Writer & Director Cesca Echlin On Looking For Giants

Writer, director and dramaturg Cesca Echlin stops by on Close-Up Culture to tell us more about her show Looking For Giants, which will show at the King’s Head Theatre from 14th – 26th January 2025. First things first, in your own words, what is Looking For Giants about? Looking For Giants is about one young woman and her…
Writer & Performer Florence Lace-Evans Talks Yes, We’re Related

Florence Lace-Evans trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on the BA Acting (Musical Theatre) course. Nominated for the Spotlight Award in 2019 and graduating with First Class (hons), Florence has since worked across film and stage. Past credits include 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche (Old Joint Stock Theatre), The Contract (Eve…
Theatre Re Artistic Director Guillaume Pigé On Moments

Theatre Re are one of the UK’s leading visual theatre companies. Their work combines original live music with striking visual theatre to create world class, deeply moving non-verbal productions about universal human challenges and the fragility of life. They engage with audiences locally, nationally and internationally to create, share and promote life-changing theatre that is…
Edinburgh Fringe: Noel Byrne Talks Gulliver’s Travels & Casting The Runes

Noel Byrne is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Box Tale Soup and is currently a performer for the company. Outside of this, he’s enjoyed an extremely varied professional career including everything from Shakespeare on stage to voice and motion capture for video games, as well as television work for the BBC’s Doctor Who, The…
Writer & Director Tomás Ferreira Talks Short Film In a House, At Night

Available to watch from today, In a House, At Night follows 7-year-old Lynn who leaves her mother after a tantrum and wanders the corridors of the women’s shelter where they’re living, coming face to face with the residents’ nightmares. After reviewing the short, Anna was able to ask writer & director Tomás Ferreira more about his creative process. Hi Tomás, thanks for joining us on…
Under Milk Wood – Theatre Review

NO one can accuse the Progress Theatre in Reading of lacking ambition. Thirteen years on from the theatre’s youth group staging Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, the Progress has returned to the 1954 radio drama for a production under the guidance of the impressive Ali Carroll. It’s a sparkling production, given an extra lift by…