The Play's The Thing

Amateur of Life and Death

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This episode explores keeping it simple on stage when producing plays that are written to be performed with minimal set and costume. Plays where the words, characters and ideas create the drama and the world of the play without lavish backdrops or fancy frocks. We’ll be interviewing Fi Cotton, actor and director, to find out about her life and loves in amateur theatre, and her experience of directing plays that keep the staging simple, whilst also experimenting with form. This month, John will be going behind the scenes on the Crescent Theatre’s forthcoming ‘Studio Fortnight’ productions of A Number by Caryl Churchill, and Swallow by Stef Smith.