The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast

Ryan Calais Cameron on Retrograde, plus we review The Motive and the Cue, and The Good Person of Szechwan

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Episode notes

Recorded at His Majesty’s Theatre in time for the King’s coronation we’re joined by playwright Ryan Calais Cameron to talk about his new production Retrograde, now on at the Kiln Theatre. You may well know Ryan for his show For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy.

We review The Motive and the Cue, a play by Jack Thorne, directed by Sam Mendes, starring Janie Dee, Mark Gatiss and Tuppence Middleton, now on at the National Theatre.

We chat about royal plays, Phantom of the Opera and the news of Sir Kenneth Branagh set to direct and star in the West End’s King Lear.

Theatre critic Alice Saville joins us to review The Good Person of Szechwan, that’s presented by the English Touring Theatre and Sheffield Theatres, now on at the Lyric Hammersmith.

Plus we pay tribute to director and writer Adam Brace who has died aged 43.

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