Wez Builds a Theatre: Recent Episodes
Wesley Thistlethwaite
Fancy building a theatre truly from scratch? In this podcast Wez endeavours to do just that and he wants you to build your own theatre too!
Manchester International Festival? Factory International?! AVIVA STUDIOS?!?!?!?! Can we all please just. calm. down.
Artist Amy Vreeke talks about creating a theatre for parents. Do family friendly places need to have squares? Be working class? Need Jacket potatoes?
If you enjoy this episode, catch Amy at Contact Theatre, 18 - 22 Oct 2022: Book tickets here!
This time we talk to Becky Molloy, Ticketing and Audience Insights Manager at Bristol Old Vic, about upwards management! What is it? How do you do it?
Get your appetite ready as we also get talking about what food would match what shows!
This week we talk to e-sport evangelist Joan and Chief Gaming Officer Joseph about the metaverse, the UK's problem with creative thinking with technology and why it's a no brainer to put e-sports in theatres.
This time we talk to Jenna Omeltschenko from the National Theatre about what it means when arts professionals say 'Community' and we have a little delve into her raucous twitter feed.
This week we talk to Keisha Thompson to get her take on 16 - 25 year olds in the arts and an inside view of Arts Council England.
This week we talk to David O'Brien about the book he co-authored, Culture is Bad for You, to understand inequality in culture.
Faz imagines how he could create a 'pre-theatre' to get his mum into the arts and make the arts seem a viable career in his community.
This week we talk about insights with Dr Matilda Andersson from Crowd DNA! How do we get to know what audiences and participants really want? To understand them so deeply we know them almost better than they know themselves?
It's a Euros Special! Sheffield Theatres producer, John Tomlinson, tells us about the theatre he'd love to build in his hometown, as we ask 'What can theatre learn from sport?'
Wez talks to Josh about drive through style box offices, class and the philosophy of 'It Is What It Is'.
This week we uncover what producing is. How do you get something to the stage? Along the way we talk about living in the Venezuelan Embassy, creating and touring a girl band and burn out culture.
This week we talk to the Artistic Director of Stand and Be Counted Theatre Company about what her theatre would be. Much like her theatre company her theatre focuses on creating a place of sanctuary for refugees and asylum seekers. We also discuss the potential death of theatre, Shakespeare being overhyped and rolling up a rebellious festival wagon outside other theatres.
It's happening! This episode we hear from a listener about the theatre they have been building along with the podcast! The listener is Rory Aaron and we talk about working class towns, paying participants and butchers beads. If you want to come on a talk about the theatre you have been building drop me an email at wezbuildsatheatre@gmail.com.
This week we talk to Alan Lane, Artistic Director of Slung Low, about the Working Mens Club, The Holbeck which the company manage. We chat about long term community engagement and public funding. Beware this one gets political and contains strong language!
In this episode, we talk to Sarah in Queens, New York. That's right! We have gone International! Hear all about 'access' and 'othering' and if you don't know what these terms mean, Sarah explains all!
This week Wez gets Isaiah to cross section his ideas for a festival, Isaiah talks about a festival of his own and they both reminisce about their time as young artists at Manchester International Festival.
This week we get ideas from Artistic Director of Manchester International Festival John McGrath about what we should think about when creating our festivals.
Wez reads out all the amazing ideas for peoples theatre architecture, reflects on the interview with Jasmin the architect and tells you his ideas for his Old Trafford Theatre. Post Office in a theatre anyone?
As a lovely treat we have invited Architect, Jasmin Eastwood onto the podcast to give us some insight into what we should be thinking about when designing our buildings.
Wez asks you what you mission statement is. What is your core idea or philosophy for your theatre?
Wez explains a little about the podcast and encourages you all to get involved in the conversation!