Bechdel Theatre Podcast

Episodes

1. 33

   Little Miss Burden with Matilda Ibini

   Matilda Ibini is a playwright and screen-writer from East London. She is the writer of Little Miss Burden, a five-star-reviewed coming-of-age tale that smashes together 90s nostalgia, Nigerian family, East London and Sailor Moon to tell the sometimes tricky, often funny truth about growing up…

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   Dec 9, 2019

   1h 05m
2. 32

   Islamophobia and Trojan Horse with Madiha Ansari

   Madiha Ansari specialises in cultural engagement, specifically for communities of South Asian women. She is the founder and director of arts-based social enterprise The Cultural Ecology Project which aims to make art accessible to those in the most deprived and vulnerable areas of society. You…

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   Nov 15, 2019

   1h 15m
3. 31

   Red Palace

   Porscha Present is a singer, pianist, performer, and tutor currently playing Mermaid, Baba Yaga in Red Palace. Camilla Harding is a performer, actor, and drag-dabbler currently playing Prince, Wolf, and an unnamed mystery character in Red Palace. Red Palace is a Shotgun Carousel production…

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   Oct 31, 2019

   1h 17m
4. 30

   Parakeet with Brigitte Aphrodite & Michelle Tiwo

   This is the fourth episode in a series of podcasts covering Edinburgh Fringe 2019. Listen back to the previous episodes with Mika Johnson & Teddy Lamb, Travis Alabanza, and Emily Aboud & Charlotte Dowding, and look out on our social media for tour dates to see their shows. You can now support...

   Aug 26, 2019

   43m
5. 29

   "Carnival is Gay as Shit" in Splintered with Emily Aboud & Charlotte Dowding

   Emily Aboud is the director and writer of Splintered. Charlotte Dowding is one of the three performers in Splintered. Splintered is a Lagahoo Theatre production which uses cabaret, carnival, and recorded interviews with LGBTQ+ people in Trinidad and Tobago to tell the stories of Queer people in…

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   Aug 8, 2019

   55m
6. 28

   Burgerz with Travis Alabanza

   Travis Alabanza is a performer, writer and theatre-maker based in London (via Bristol). Their show BURGERZ is on at the Traverse Theatre at varying times until August 25th (except the 5th, 12th & 19th), and then on tour, going to Dublin, Newcastle, Glasgow, Warwick, Birmingham, Bristol, and...

   Aug 4, 2019

   51m
7. 27

   The Queer House Double Bill with Mika Johnson & Teddy Lamb

   This episode is the first Bechdel Theatre podcast from Edinburgh Fringe 2019! Follow us on instagram & twitter, and read our blog for constant updates of EdFringe shows to see. If you want to support our work at Edinburgh you can still do so via our GoFundMe, Ko-Fi, and Patreon pages. Mika…

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   Aug 2, 2019

   1h 04m
8. 26

   Salt with Selina Thompson and Rochelle Rose

   Selina Thompson is an artist and performer based in Leeds, who has been creating autobiographical work since 2014. salt. Is part of a wider body of Selina's work looking at Black British identity. It focuses on grief, home, Afro-pessimism, the Black Atlantic, the forgetting of the UK's colonial...

   May 29, 2019

   1h 07m
9. 25

   Wondrous Vulva & The Vagina Museum

   Florence Schechter is the founder of the Vagina Museum, which will be the first ever bricks-and-mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynaecological anatomy. You can donate to the Vagina Museum's Crowdfunder Page to help them make the museum a physical reality. Rejoicing At Her...

   May 25, 2019

   57m
10. 24

    Live at VAULT 2019 with Lyn Gardner and Ava Wong Davies

    This episode was sponsored by Stagedoor. Lyn Gardner is the critic for the Stagedoor app. In the past she has written theatre reviews for The Guardian, The Stage and The Independent. She also writes children's novels. Ava Wong Davies writes about theatre for Exeunt Magazine, The Stage, and on her...

    Apr 22, 2019

    1h 09m
11. 23

    BEATing the system with Chi Thai

    Chi Thai is a Vietnamese born, British raised filmmaker. She has been a Cannes Lions finalist three times and her work has competed at Academy accredited festivals. She is part of the Guiding Lights alumnus & listed in Creative England's Top 50 companies. She is currently in production with...

    Mar 15, 2019

    45m
12. 22

    Sex Sex Men Men with Thrustin' Limbersnake

    Lauren Steele is a drag king, burlesque performer and activist. She is a founding member of Pecs drag king collective, and performs as Thrustin' Limbersnake. Pecs latest show SEX SEX MEN MEN is on at The Yard until March 16. Watch the iconic trailer for the show now. Lauren's #FeministFave is The...

    Mar 4, 2019

    1h 26m
13. 21

    Trailblazing Theatre Activists with Dr. Naomi Paxton

    Dr Naomi Paxton is a performer and feminist theatre historian who wrote her PhD on the work of the Actresses' Franchise League. She has published two books of Suffrage plays with Methuen Drama, and is currently Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Naomi is…

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    Jan 25, 2019

    1h 02m
14. 20

    Ep 20 - Taking Up Space with Rubyyy Jones

    Rubyyy Jones is is a Canadian-born London-based burlesque dancer, cabaret performer and theatre-maker best known as the Queen of Queerlesque. You can find out more about her upcoming appearances, and how to get involved with her courses and classes on her Facebook and Instagram pages. Rubyyy is...

    Dec 17, 2018

    59m
15. 19

    Ep 19 - VAGINAS with Isley Lynn

    Isley Lynn is an American-born, London-based playwright and poet. Her play Skin A Cat opened at VAULT Festival in 2016, where it won Pick of the Year, and was nominated for four Off West End Awards for its transfer as inaugural production at The Bunker. Skin A Cat's upcoming tour dates are The...

    Oct 6, 2018

    1h 09m
16. 18

    Ep 18 - #RepresentAsian with Katie Leung and Kae Alexander

    Katie Leung began her career playing Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films, and has had screen and stage roles in Run on Channel 4, One Child on BBC, The World Of Extreme Happiness at The National Theatre, and Snow in Midsummer at The RSC. Kae Alexander was most recently seen on stage in The Great...

    Sep 24, 2018

    1h 16m
17. 17

    Ep 17 - Love Songs in Edinburgh with Alissa Anne Jeun Yi

    Alissa Anne Jeun Yi has written and is performing in Love Songs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Underbelly Cowgate, 14:40, everyday until August 26th) Alissa studied law at university before realising her true passion for creative writing. She has been performing spoken-word for a year, and Love...

    Aug 17, 2018

    47m
18. 16

    Ep 16 - FYPM in Edinburgh with Joana Nastari

    Joana Nastari has written and is performing in Fuck You Pay Me at Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Assembly Rooms, 15:25, every day except 14 & 21). Fuck You Pay Me is a poetic, surreal, and no-holds-barred REAL love-letter to strippers. It follows a day in the life of Bea, a stripper whose Brazilian...

    Aug 9, 2018

    42m
19. 15

    Ep 15 - Fun Home & Hive City Legacy

    Lisa Fa'alafi and Yami 'Rowdy' Lofvenberg are the Director and Assistant Director of Hive City Legacy: a riotous new show by a league of extraordinary Femmes Of Colour, created in association with legendary Australian performance collective Hot Brown Honey. Hive City Legacy is at The Roundhouse...

    Jul 14, 2018

    59m
20. 14

    Ep 14 - Three Sisters with RashDash

    RashDash Theatre Company are Abbi Greenland, Becky Wilkie and Helen Goalen. They have been making shows together since 2009, and have been called "The punk princesses of late night theatre". Their new show Three Sisters (after Chekhov) is at The Yard London until June 9 and Tobacco Factory…

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    May 29, 2018

    40m
21. 13

    Ep 13 - Chinese Dreams and Different Women

    Jennifer Tang is the director of Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok, which is currently touring and can be seen this month in Derby, Watford, Sheffield, Hexham, and Coventry. Jennifer's #FeministFave is performer and theatre-maker Lucy Ellinson, who was most recently seen on stage in Jubilee....

    May 6, 2018

    1h 15m
22. 12

    Ep 12 - Journalism, journeys and 'Good Girl' with Lisa Francesca Nand

    Lisa Francesca Nand is a journalist, travel writer and broadcaster. She was the first female presenter on TalkSPORT, and hosts her own podcast The Big Travel Podcast. We went with Lisa to see Good Girl by Naomi Sheldon at VAULT Festival. The show has since transferred to Trafalgar Studios, where…

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    Mar 21, 2018

    1h 06m
23. 11

    Ep 11 - #BlackGirlMagic with Giselle Gant

    Giselle Gant is an Emmy-winning actor, theatre-maker, and presenter (known for her 'Black To Life' series on BET Her). Giselle was born and raised in Manhatten. Nathalie Adlam is Artistic Director of theatre company Les Foules, who won the VAULT Festival Origins Award for Outstanding New Work in...

    Mar 7, 2018

    58m
24. 10

    Ep 10 - Solace and Surrogacy in 'There or Here' with Rakhee Thakrar

    Rakhee Thakrar is best known for her long-running role on Eastenders playing Shabnam Masood. Her theatre credits include: Astronauts of Hartlepool (Vaults Festival); Lalita's Big Fat Asian Wedding (Curve Leicester); Pyaar Hai (Rich Mix); Free Booze (Edinburgh Fringe) Rakhee is currently starring…

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    Jan 28, 2018

    48m
25. 9

    Ep 9 - Motherhood and Memories

    Comfort Moye is an Anthropology student and her University's POC officer. We watched Apologia at Trafalgar Studios and Racheal Ofori's Portrait at Rich Mix. Comfort's #FeministFaves are Plantation Memories book by Grada Kilomba, and the TV series Girlfriends. More recommendations... Six at The…

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    Dec 24, 2017

    56m
26. 8

    Ep 8 - Feminist Witches with The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein

    The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein also known as 'The Famous,' is a New York-raised, London-based feminist performance maker who holds a PhD on 'The Agency of the Displayed Female Body: The Political Potential of Negative Affects in Contemporary Feminism and Performance' Lauren's #FeministFaves are...

    Nov 13, 2017

    1h 13m
27. 7

    Ep 7 - Whitewashing in "Angel" at the Arcola Theatre featuring Tutku Barbaros

    Tutku Barbaros is an actor, writer, and member of Plunge Theatre. Tutku's review of Angel at The Arcola was published in The Tung and Sister-hood. Tutku's #FeministFaves are Mona Eltahawy, Deeya Khan, Leyla Hussain (Three #FeministFaves who also featured in Epsiode 3!), the essay collection Nasty...

    Oct 31, 2017

    1h 01m
28. 6

    Ep 6 - Come As You Are Festival

    Lucy J Skilbeck (aka Leo) is one of the founders of award-winning theatre company Milk Presents, and writer and director of BULLISH: a new mythical play with songs, negotiating ancient and new territories in trans-masculine gender and identity. BULLISH is headlining Camden People's Theatre's Come...

    Sep 16, 2017

    47m
29. 5

    Ep 5 - Live from Edinburgh! With Tanya Loretta Dee, Charly Clive, Ellen Robertson, and Rebecca Humphries

    For more Fringe tips, our blog has a long list of Edinburgh shows we recommend seeing, and a shorter but more detailed list of our Fringe #FeministFaves. If you're not in Edinburgh, never fear! The majority of the shows that do well at the Fringe will tour across the country, so make sure you get...

    Aug 24, 2017

    47m
30. 4

    Ep 4 Yolanda Mercy, Jade Lewis, Quarter Life Crisis, Edinburgh Fringe & Summer Shows

    Interview with Yolanda Mercy and Jade Lewis: writer/performer and director of 'Quarter Life Crisis', plus our recommendations for Underbelly Cowgate at Edinburgh Fringe, and shows opening in London and touring this summer. Yolanda Mercy is a London based Actor and Playwright. She trained at the...

    Jun 12, 2017

    54m
31. 3

    Ep 3. Homegrown and The Diary of A Hounslow Girl with Firdos Ali and Shaneela Rowah Al-Qamar

    Episode 3 - #BringAFeministFriend special on representations of Muslim girls, with Firdos Ali and Shaneela Rowah Al-Qamar talking about Homegrown and Hounslow Girl. Firdos Ali is a playwright, currently writing a musical which will be previewed at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Firdos is…

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    Apr 4, 2017

    35m
32. 2

    Live from VAULT Festival

    This week join Beth and Pippa for their very special second episode from deep in the underground at Vault Festival! Our special guests include Bella Heesom who talks about her autobiographical play My World Has Exploded A Little Bit, Lekhani Chirwa actor and host of the Creative Juice Podcast and...

    Feb 11, 2017

    59m
33. 1

    Welcome to Bechdel Theatre!

    Originally created as a Twitter campaign in 2015 by Beth Watson and now a 50-minute women-in-theatre audible feast! Bechdel Theatre is directly inspired by the famous Bechdel Test which looks at gender representation in film - only now british theatre is under the microscope. In this first…

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    Dec 17, 2016

    50m