Paines Plough: Insights: Recent Episodes
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James Graham is a playwright from Mansfield. As part of the company's 50th anniversary celebrations, James became a Patron for Paines Plough. Find out more about James Graham here.
'Northern/Not Northern' is a Paines Plough and Nottingham Playhouse production. It was first performed at Nottingham Playhouse on 22 July 2010.
Naomi is a writer from the south of France and the East Midlands. Read Naomi's full biography here.
A Paines Plough and National Student Drama Festival (NSDF) production.
First performed at NSDF Online on 9th April 2020.
A Paines Plough, Middlesbrough Theatre and less is MORE production. First performed at Middlesbrough Theatre on 16 March 2017.
Find out more about Gordon Steel here.
On moving, to new towns and new countries and new ways of life, and what is lost when we move on.
A Paines Plough and Tamasha production. First performed at Park Theatre on Wednesday 6 July 2016.
Isley Lynn is a playwright from London. Read Isley's full biography here.
As a biographer posthumously sets out the key moments of the long-dead Vinay's life, fifteen year Vinay takes the stage, keen to make some corrections.
Read Vinay's full biography here.
A Paines Plough and Tamasha production.
First performed at the Ovalhous on 4th July 2016.
A Paines Plough and Watermill Theatre production.
First performed at the Watermill Theatre on 9 November 2019.
Talitha is a professional actor, writer and poet. Paines Plough's COME TO WHERE I'M FROM, was Talitha's first commissioned play.
Read Talitha's full biography here.
A Paines Plough production.
First performed at the Come to Where I'm From: 10th Anniversary Gala at the Criterion Theatre on 18 November 2019.
Simon Stephens is a playwright from Stockport.
You can read more about Simon Stephens here.
In our second Edinburgh Fringe episode, we chat to producer Francesca Moody, Richard Gadd and Remy Beasley about finding the work, writing and performing your own (autobiographical) solo show, and transitioning between genres. Francesca also shares golden nuggets of advice about bringing work to the Fringe. Richard Gadd's BABY REINDEER is in ROUNDABOUT and Remy Beasley's DO OUR BEST is in Underbelly Cowgate.
In this series of INSIGHTS we will be chatting to a bunch of artists and companies about their work, about the Fringe, and about bringing work to the Fringe – if, why, how you can make it happen, what the consequences might be and what comes next. Guests today are the new Artistic Directors of PP, Charlotte Bennett and Katie Posner; Daniel Ward, writer / performer in THE CANARY AND THE CROW; and Dom McGovern, a member of our Festival Team.
'We're not writing in collaboration, but it feels like a collaboration'. Post-read-through and pre-pub, Charley Miles, Nathan Bryon and Daf James chat to PP about the plays that they have written for ROUNDABOUT 2019: DAUGHTERHOOD, DEXTER AND WINTER'S DETECTIVE AGENCY and ON THE OTHER HAND, WE'RE HAPPY.
In this final bumper episode, James Grieve and Sam Steiner reflect on the final countdown to and aftermath of YOU STUPID DARKNESS!. They discuss the process of tech-ing the show ('watching surgery conducted on your organs' - Sam Steiner), the importance of sign-posting an interval, and the dilemma behind reading reviews.
YOU STUPID DARKNESS! premiered at Theatre Royal Plymouth 07 - 23 February 2019.
Ode to Joy, La Vie En Rose and Four Square by the sea.
The company of actors - Andrew Finnigan, Lydia Larson, Becci Gemmell and David Carlyle - chat to James Grieve and Sam Steiner about what they've been getting up to in rehearsals for YOU STUPID DARKNESS! at Theatre Royal Plymouth. Playing until 23 February, YOU STUPID DARKNESS! has been listed by the Guardian as the number 1 Theatre Show to watch in the UK this week.
'The kettle explodes.'
Director James Grieve and Playwright Sam Steiner reflect on the first week of rehearsals in the PP rehearsal room.
Featuring Assistant Director Freddie Crossley and Assistant Stage Manager Rosie Morgan.
YOU STUPID DARKNESS! is a co-production with Theatre Royal Plymouth. You can catch it 07 - 23 February 2019 in the Drum Theatre, Plymouth.
'I wanted to write a hopeful play about the end of the world'.
Director James Grieve and Playwright Sam Steiner reflect on the process that has led up to week one of rehearsals for YOU STUPID DARKNESS!
YOU STUPID DARKNESS! is a co-production with Theatre Royal Plymouth. You can catch it 07 - 23 February 2019 in the Drum Theatre, Plymouth.