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A fortnightly theatre bookclub hosted by Nancy Netherwood and Sam Webber. Every other Thursday we take a deep dive into a different play from a range of genres, writers, times and places - join in the conversation over on Instagram @playground_pod
Nancy Netherwood & Sam Webber hosts Play Ground, a arts show with 42 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail An underground bunker filled with a thousand ping pong balls (which are actually other things) and a table tennis table (which is itself). 3 days, 3 characters, and some very rapid dialogue make this fri
Send us Fan Mail In the ancient play The Frogs, which has survived 2.5 thousand years and been a lynchpin of many hundreds of academic careers, Dionysus and his slave (eesh) Xanthius go in desperate search of funny bits
Send us Fan Mail A 300 year epic told through 17 minute portraits, Joel Tan's No Particular Order is a very heavy going, incredible piece of writing detailing the rise and fall(?) of an unnamed despot in an unnamed count
Send us Fan Mail Noël Coward has a legendary reputation - and this play lives up to it! Otto, Gilda and Leo all love each other, but due to the world's boring machinations they must keep trying out monogamy - can they, a
Send us Fan Mail We're doing a musical! And trying our very best to discuss the published script rather than the four thousand different live shows that Nancy has obsessively watched. This 2013 show is an adaptation of t
Send us Fan Mail Football! Wait no soccer - Soccer! This Pulitzer-nommed play from 2016 follows an U17s indoor girls soccer team as they warm up for various games. Very little happens, and it's one of the most devastatin
Send us Fan Mail 'The trashiest play we've ever done.' Content Warnings: Murder/Drugs/Classism Have some feedback? A play you'd like us to cover? Chat to host Nancy @N_Netherwood on various Chat to host Sam @Samwebbercoo
Send us Fan Mail After an infamously terrible debut, this classic Russian play went on to define naturalism, changing how we make theatre in the West forever. It is also full of sad theatre makers, which may go some way
Send us Fan Mail A travelling 'Odditorium' is struggling to make ends meet, and as a change of tactic the performers start trying to make themselves as normal as can be. If you can see how bleak this is about to get, the
Send us Fan Mail Cillian Murphy somehow remains looking beautiful through this deeply intense and gruelling play - first performed in 1999 by Walsh himself, we very specifically take a look at the revised/updated 2011 ve
Send us Fan Mail Is this a play? Performance art? Essay? Real or not real? This play/text/email chain was originally presented as a live performance and digital experience combination, then printed onto paper, and now th
Send us Fan Mail East coast round 2! We talk aliens, village gossip, and the strange prescience of this play written in 1973 about 1907 when being read in 2025. FAIRYTALE UPDATE: I have searched and can find nothing subs
Send us Fan Mail Once again we dive into a time bending play about sad women. This time it's Lucy Kirkwood's 2020 play The Welkin; set in 18th century Suffolk/Norfolk, 12 women must decide the fate of another in this epi
Send us Fan Mail Time. Ghosts. Violence. Hope. Academia. We return to pod favourite Alistair McDowall for his incredible 2022 play The Glow. Have some feedback? A play you'd like us to cover? Chat to host Nancy @N_Nether
Send us Fan Mail We recorded this 3 years ago and then forgot to make more podcasts. It holds up!!! Declaring this the end of season 1, we'll be back with certified fresh content in 2 weeks time. Sam Shepard's True West
Send us Fan Mail Step 1) Nuclear Meltdown Step 2) Gang Warfare Over Simpsons Quotes Step 3) ???? Step 4) The Greatest Story Ever Told If you're not familiar with the play of post-apocalyptic pop-culture mythology, prepar
Send us Fan Mail Despite the characters explicitly talking about the cold all the time, prepare to hear about some very hot and sweaty goings on in this William's classic. When a young hot guy walks into a Southern town
Send us Fan Mail Up front: 1) TW, this episode contains quite frank discussions of a variety of grisly topics, including sexual assault and suicide. 2) This podcast is about the original play, NOT the musical version (th
Send us Fan Mail It was inevitable that at some point we'd bump into the bard on our ever winding theatrical-textual journey, and we do so what in our un-researched opinion is 'one of the more obscure ones.' Cymbeline is
Send us Fan Mail You Stupid Darkness! takes us into the world of Brightline, a call centre for those who need to talk to someone about their problems, and the 4 volunteers who answer those calls late at night. Meet Franc
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