Hear Me Out with Lucy Eaton puts the audience back in the stalls (or, closer still, the rehearsal room), inviting theatre-loving audiences to re-connect with theatre-makers in a unique celebration of language and performance.
Hosted by Lucy Eaton, it's the insider chat that audiences would love to have. The format is simple: Lucy asks 'What is your favourite speech?' From the brilliance of the language to the personal anecdotes behind the choice, it’s part Desert Island Discs, part literary analysis and part post-show chat in the theatre bar.
Guests include: Denise Gough, Patricia Hodge, Claire Skinner, Adrian Lester, Mark Bonnar and Giles Terera.
Is there anywhere I could go online to ask for a woman to meet me and accompany me to the theatre? I looked for a Facebook group but I didn't find one relevant.
Shaun was in the year above me at school, it's great to see how well he has done with his career. It's also helpful for me to hear him admit to still having nerves, imposter syndrome and self-doubt - he is my definition of success - and he's from my home village Shafton (even from the same housing estate as me!) and town (Barnsley) so I shouldn't feel bad about getting nervous and having self doubt and imposter syndrome myself. He's a great example for young people today who want to enter the arts, yet come from a background where it's not seen as a possible career.
All episodes for Series 2 are available on the RU-vid channel (beginning with Joanna Vanderham and running through to Tim McInnerny). Unfortunately full video episodes are only available from Series 3 onwards, so for Series 2 you can find the full audio and separate video highlights on our RU-vid channel.
Thank you, Charlotte for being so vulnerable with us in this interview. Also, you look so beautiful in that braided ponytail. So cute. And such an amazing reading of Lungs, always knew you had a gift for voice acting/ narration/ asmr.
Only knew Shaun from Broadchurch before this, but he seems like such a lovely person!! Especially loved hearing his take on how Shakespeare is always being put on a pedestal - I'm not a native speaker and I remember discussing Shakespeare in English class... Shaun hit the nail on the head for me. Our teacher thematized Shakespeare in such an inaccessible way that it 'scared' me away from theatre for yeaaaars. Shakespeare's works and the people that 'worshipped' it felt almost arrogant to me at times. Only now am I starting to get into his literature, but I know exactly what Shaun was talking about! 🧡
So excited to hear Neil talk about Salome then was disappointed with his reading of her. How can a character that complains that Herod looks too much at her and that literally says she was to be chaste like the moon is obsessed with attention? She uses it to get what she wants…does not mean she wants it. It’s called being smart.
Came for Neil Gaiman, but stayed and subscribed for Lucy Eaton. Absolutely loved her in Staged, but had no idea she had a podcast! Thank you both for the Oscar Wilde and the conversation! ♥️
I always felt that Salome was missunderstood and used by Herod to get rid of John the Baptist, but of cours its framed as the "evil and vain seductress destroying a good man". Symbolicly I kind of look at the beheading as a geting rid of ego and letting the wild force of life winn over restriction and dogmas. Even if it means the eventual death of the beautyfull wild dancer.
Sarah Bernhardt still had her legs them , if she was 47. It was amputated when she was 70, 1915, because her knee had caused unrelenting pain for several years . She continued in theatre until she died at 78🎉❣️🎭
No it’s not baby-killing-Herod! Baby-killing-Herod was Herod the Great. Salomé dances for his son Herod Antipas! Johanan preaches *against* the marriage of Herod Antipas to Herodias because she was his late brother’s wife and the marriage is “incestuous” (by the cultural standards of the time and place). That’s why he is in prison.
Thanks for clarifying that! It's been decades since I studied the biblical story, fewer decades since I read Salome (in English)may first I thought "but Neil wouldn't make that mistake" anthem I realized it's Wilde's story.
The death of John the Baptist is not a little-known Biblical episode. This Herod is also not the baby-killing Herod the Great. Herod Antipas, same family, is the successor of Herod the Great.
Hey, hey. Greeting from the South the Brazil. Two days ago, I have finished the first season of "Stage" and, now, I'm seen this beauty of interview. It's so delightful. Congratulations and keep on this incredibly show.
So glad I was able to find the video version of this!! Just listened to it on Apple Podcasts, but It is so lovely that I wanted to actually watch this one. What a kind, fascinating and intelligent human Neil Gaiman is. <3
Mark Gatiss asked whether anyone had directed a show while appearing in another one. Coincidentally enough, in his diaries, Richard Burton mentions that his frenemy Anthony Quayle was directing at and running Stratford while co-starring in a Tarzan film at the same time. Close enough?
It is very interesting that Dennis Kelly reference, "Scorpio with Leo rising." That is my combination. I wonder if that is him. Writers sometimes do that. They put secret things in stories that are part of them.
