Jelly Cleaver is an eager and fiercely ambitious up-and-comer singer-songwriter on the London gig scene who recently self-produced and released her album, Cure for an Existential Crisis. I met Jelly in Primrose Bakery in Covent Garden in late October and we talked about Morrissey, the Buckley men, and performing at an all-you-can-eat.
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Louis Chilton had the pleasure of being part of a group interview with director, writer and actress Alice Lowe, who gave us an insight into the making of her directorial debut ‘Prevenge’. Prevenge is your debut film as a director, but you also wrote and starred in it. This is pretty unusual for a first-time director.…
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RSC veteran Simon Russell Beale took a few minutes out of his busy schedule, working on a new production of the Bard’s ‘The Tempest’, to talk to our very own Shakespeare enthusiast Maddie Andrews. So you’re returning to the RSC after 23 years of being away, how is it coming back to everything? It doesn’t…
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Director of A Date for Mad Mary, Darren Thornton, sat with Louis Chilton to discuss the making of his excellent film. We thank him for his time. How did your film come about? I directed a stage show with a girl called Yasmin Akram, who wrote the original play, which toured for about a year. It…
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Our resident thespians Maddie Andrews and James Baxter-Derrington caught up with Marcus Griffiths, an actor juggling not one, but two, Shakespearean roles at the same time. Busy man. Luckily he kindly offered some time to fill us in on his time with the RSC. You’re doing both Cymbeline and Lear now, so how are you finding…
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The producer of ‘Five Days On Lesvos’, Sam Brown, sat down with Elliot Burr and James Baxter-Derrington to discuss an intense five day shoot during last year’s refugee crisis. We must apologise that we were unable to find a picture of Sam, but we thank her for taking the time to talk with us! I saw…
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I really enjoyed the film, I think it captured that isolated feeling really well – but to start with, how did you get the idea for the film? So it came about through very collaborative means, and I think we all brought something quite specific to it. Joe, who’s the main actor, Joe Kennedy, as…
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Beneath the transcription of this interview, you can also find the recording to listen for yourself! If you’d like to read the review of 2 Become 1, click here. ‘/’ indicates a change of speaker So I’m here with the girls from ‘2 Become 1’ – Hi girls, good show, how are you? Good thanks,…
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Ahead of our trip to Stratford-upon-Avon for the RSC’s Making Mischief festival, Fraser Grace was kind enough to talk to us about his new play Always Orange, which was commissioned for the festival. Your play Always Orange started two days ago as part of the new Making Mischief Festival at the RSC – how’s the opening…
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