Play Ground
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
Podcasting since 2020 • 33 episodes
Play Ground
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Misterman by Enda Walsh
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 version which took the intimate one-person ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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31 - Midnight Movie by Eve Leigh
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 thrust back onto the internet by us in the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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30 - The Sea by Edward Bond
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 substantial about thi...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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29 - The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood
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 epicly jam-packed courtroom(ish) drama. We t...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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