Episode # 184 - Julia Lee Barclay & Bill Aitchison: London Theatre Perspectives
In this episode, Martin Denton chats with theatre practitioners Julia Lee Barclay and Bill Aitchison, both of whom work primarily in London. Julia is an American playwright and director; Bill is an English performance artist.
During this conversation, they discuss their own work as well as the current state of cutting-edge and experimental London theatre. There’s also some interesting discussion about some of the differences between theatre in London and New York.
Julia is known for her collage/cut-up theatre pieces, which include Word To Your Mama (her first full-length play, published in NYTE’s Plays and Playwrights 2001) . She recently presented a reading of her newest work, Besides, you lose your soul, or the History of Western Civilization at the Brick Theater.
Bill is currently working on a new performance piece about 2012 which touches on the apocalypse and the London Olympics, among other subjects; he talks a bit about how he has been reading Saddam Hussein’s novel as research for this work.
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