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Practice Makes is the podcast for the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Reimagining Performance Network (https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/reimagining-performance-network). Each episode stages a discussion between a leading performance scholar and a theatre practitioner – actors, playwrights, directors and more — to crack open the connections between theatre research and performance in practice. Presented by Helen Dallas and Madeleine Saidenberg, two Oxford DPhil students who research theatre and have worked as directors, writers, and dramaturgs, the podcast explores current questions in theatre scholarship in Oxford and beyond, from academic and practice-based perspectives.
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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 4 | Creative Commons | Practice Makes… The Multi-Hyphenate Career | Helen and Madeleine are joined by Frey Kwa Hawking, dramaturg and critic, and Hannah Greenstreet, playwright, critic, and academic, to talk about their varied career roles, how they interact, and why theatre matters to us. | Hannah Greenstreet, Frey Kwa Hawking, Helen Dallas, Madeleine Saidenberg | 09 Feb 2023 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | Practice Makes… Eighteenth-Century Theatre Today | David Taylor, specialist in eighteenth-century theatre, and Colin Blumenau, former Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, talk about performing eighteenth-century drama on the modern stage. | David Taylor, Colin Blumenau, Helen Dallas, Madeleine Saidenberg | 14 Nov 2022 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Practice Makes… Documentary Theatre | Alecky Blythe, creator of verbatim company Recorded Delivery and writer of Our Generation, and Molly Flynn, who specialises in contemporary Ukrainian and Russian documentary theatre, talk about documentary theatre in the UK and Ukraine. | Alecky Blythe, Molly Flynn, Helen Dallas, Madeleine Saidenberg | 31 Oct 2022 |
| 1 | Creative Commons | Practice Makes… Disabled-Led Theatre | Jess Thom of Touretteshero and Hannah Simpson, author of Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance, discuss relaxed performance, accessibility, and the Touretteshero production of Beckett’s Not I. | Jess Thom, Hannah Simpson, Helen Dallas, Madeleine Saidenberg | 20 Oct 2022 |