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Entertaining, thrilling and uplifting the Putney Theatre Company's dedicated podcast features show reviews, interviews with directors, cast and crew, and feedback from our wonderful audiences. We're a regional theatre working with the community to encourage new writing, new actors, offering fresh perspectives and familiar drama. Come and see us at the South West End!
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An emergency episode in the absence of Cait, the cast of Death and the Maiden (by Ariel Dorfman, directed by the inestimable Kim Dyas) drop in for a chat, late evening, during a break in rehearsals. Cast: Paulina Escobar (Sharon Czudak), Gerardo Escobar (Aidan Kershaw) and Roberto Miranda as Paul Dineen. Set in a country that is transitioning to de…
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New episode for Flare Path a new production of the Rattigan play, directed by Ian Higham at the Putney Arts Theatre. Cait interviews three of the star perfomers, Emma Bugg (Patricia), Theo Leonard (Flight Lieutenant Teddy Graham) and Guy Robarts (Peter Kyle). 24-28 September, 7.45pm Matinee 28 September, 3pm Ticket link Written in 1941 and first st…
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Artistic Directors Barney and Cait sit down to talk about the incredible range of new productions coming up, including Flare Path, Death and the Maiden, Shakespeare in Love, It's A Wonderful Life, Alligator and Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Tickets for all shows will soon be available on putneyartstheatre.org.uk Artistic Directors: Barney and C…
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10 plays in 8 days, The Putney Theatre Box Set Summer Festival brings the energy of the Edinburgh Fringe to your doorstep. Cait interviews Festival Director Ian Higham about everything you'd like to know. For tickets and full information, take a look at https://www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/event-5741694 Performances: 27 July – 2 August main stage A…
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Recorded in our busy theatre (four directors and their casts in all parts of the building), Cait interviews Angel Witney (Lady Melksham, Past), Emily Dixon(Miss Williams, Past) and Reid Edmond (Amyas Crale) from the stunning new production. Agatha Christie's Go Back for Murder is a stunning drama from the Queen of Crime. After a wrongly convicted w…
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Cast preview with Debra Bond ( Laura) and Des Healy (Danny). Interviewed by Cait they discuss the themes and drama of David Eldridges powerful play Beginning, directed by Ben Clare. Laura's thrown a housewarming party at her new flat. Danny is the last man standing. It's meant to be isn't it? Or is it? They're both single. They both really like eac…
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The Lovely Bones cast members Isabella (Susie), Ava (Lindsey) and Andrew (Mr Harvey) interviewed by Cait (Grandma Lynn). Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones has been a bestseller throughout the world and the 2009 film, directed by Peter Jackson starring Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon won a number of i…
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Episode featuring Scandaltown by Mike Bartlett, a new production from the Putney Theatre Company, directed by Stuart Watson. Cait interviews cast members Lucy Oglesby, Louisa Pead and Sammy Moore. About the play: Moral and progressive young heroine Phoebe Virtue disguises herself as an IT consultant and journeys to London to rescue her brother Jack…
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Cait interviews Frances, Mel and Paul, the cast of Lucy Kirkwood's tense drama, The Children. Hazel and Robin live in a cottage by the sea because their house has been made uninhabitable by a catastrophic radiation leak at the nearby nuclear power station where they both worked. One day Rose, an old colleague, arrives on a visit. Her visit stirs up…
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Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe's celebrated musical comes to the South West End! Director: Tom Sainsbury and Musical Director Richard Campbell lead a fabulous cast and crew, with the classic songs, 'I Could Have Danced All Night', 'Get Me to the Church on Time', 'Wouldn’t It Be Loverly', 'On the Street Where You Live', extravagant dancing and pin…
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One of the great plays of the 20th century, Amadeus is a riveting, must-see story about the difference between talent and true virtuosity. A sublimely operatic, darkly engrossing take on music, madness and…whisper it... murder. In this latest episode of Light's Up! Cait interviews three members of the Amadeus cast: Paul, Nathan and Emily. Director:…
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Hear Cait talking to Amanda, Chris and Geoff about the latest awesome production, Apologia by Alexi Kaye Campbell. Alexi Kaye Campbell's Apologia is a powerful truthful family drama that delves into how the past can shape the present and examines the sacrifices we are willing to make to fight for what we believe in, no matter how it impacts the one…
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a gloriously funny makeover: When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his estate, with a look of terror still etched on his face, and the paw prints of a gigantic hound beside his body, the great detective Sherlock Holmes is summoned from Baker Street, with Dr Watson in tow, t…
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Putney Theatre Company on Tour! At two outdoor venues this year, PTC brings you their funny, fast paced, modern English version of The Canterbury Tales. Inspired by Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales but re-written into modern day English with hilarious effect, this fun version loses none of the charm of the original tales that have had such an enduring le…
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Cait interviews Emma (Elinor) , Olivia (Marianne) and Isabella (Margaret) to introduce the wonderful new production from the Putney Theatre Company: Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen's classic, adapted by Jessica Swale and directed by Ben Clare. In case you don't know, here's an outline of the ageless story. When their wealthy half-brother cheats th…
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Previewing the new producrtion of Joe White's Mayfly. Ben thinks his family might be better off without him, but his wife Cat has read her stars: 'Today a very special person will appear from out the blue.' Their daughter Loops is getting ready for a date. It's her first one, and she has everything crossed. An ethereal family drama, Joe White's deb…
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Podcast preview of the new stage production of Lucy Kirkwood's The Welkin, with cast members Lucy Mabbitt (Sally Poppy) and Sarah Perkins (Elizabeth (Lizzy) Luke). A murderer’s fate lies in the hands of 12 women. Sally has committed the wickedest of crimes but her claims of pregnancy, perhaps, demand clemency. A panel of Suffolk matrons, pulled fro…
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As a long, hot summer fades to winter, the Haussmans both love and hate one another, their dysfunctional pasts overwhelming the present. Of the original National Theatre production The Stage said “gloriously textured, utterly authentic… hilarious and haunting.” A brilliant play by BAFTA award winner Stephen Beresford, brought to life by the experti…
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Preview of the powerful new production by Putney Theatre Company. Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new life. Diane Samuels’ seminal play is a modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past, a story of family partings - of love and loss. No…
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Extract from Riverside Radio's Sian Kenyon's interview with Time Iredale, Cait Hart Dyke and Lyndall Brown from the Putney Theatre Company (PTC) production of the classic panto. Dick Whittington, written by the PTC writing team, is a riotous panto in the great tradition of brilliant entertainment for all the family Can Dick outwit the evil rodent K…
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A longer episode this week, with the first of our Reunion episodes. For Alice in Wonderland (January 2022) director Frances Bodiam leads the discussion with several members of cast and crew: Chris Cully, Jim Dixon, Tim Iredale, Cait Hart Dyke, Jeff Graves and Loetitia Delais. Artistic Directors: Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. Podcast Editor and sound d…
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Fun preview interview by Cait who chats with Rosie Richards, the hero of the panto, and Daniel Wain, the madcap chef. Putney Theatre Company’s Dick Whittington, is written by the PTC writing team. Join our the eponymous Dick, with his trusty cat, as he seeks fame, fortune and happiness on his journey to become the Lord Mayor. Guided by the magical …
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A quick update for Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations. This episode features an extract, recorded by Zoom from the Riverside Radio interview with Ian Higham (Director), Clare Wall David (Miss Haversham) and Graham Kellas (Abel Magwitch). We apologise for the audio quality of the main segment, but the discussion is really inte…
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Neil Bartlett’s acclaimed adaptation of Great Expectations thrillingly brings to life on the stage some of Charles Dickens' most memorable characters. The aspirational Pip, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham, her beautiful ward Estella and Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket…
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A quick update for the first night of Ulster American, directed by Stuart Watson and starring Nathan Cable as Jay Conway, Paddy Cooper as Leigh Carver and Imogen Reeve-Tucker as Ruth Davenport. This episode features an extract from the Riverside Radio interview with Paddy, and the Putney Theatre Artistic Directors Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. Three p…
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Preview of Ulster American for its London premiere following acclaimed productions in Edinburgh and Dublin. This scintillating play examines issues of cultural identity, abuse of power, and male privilege. It's uncompromising, exhilarating, viciously funny, and not for the faint of heart. Three people meet on the eve of rehearsals for a new West En…
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The first performance of the new season is the magnificent Midsummer Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most popular and enduring plays. Suitable for families, children and anyone interested in theatre this new production is the perfect introduction to the Putney Theatre Company with performances at the Hurlingham Club and Putney Arts Theatre. Thi…
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Cait and Barney run through the new productions for the coming season with a taste of contemporary and classic drama designed to appeal to families, schools and the culturally curious. Artistic Directors: Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. Podcast Editor and sound design: Nick Wells. Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic S…
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