
The Play Podcast
Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. In each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We discuss the play’s origins, its plot, themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.
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Also, listen to The Play Review for reviews of some of the current shows on stage in London.
Latest Episode
The Play Podcast - 100 - A Moon for the Misbegotten, by Eugene O'Neill (13.08.2025)
Previous Episodes
- The Play Podcast - 099 - Till the Stars Come Down, by Beth Steel 25.07.2025
- The Play Podcast - 098 - Stereophonic, by David Adjmi 11.07.2025
- The Play Podcast - 097 - Giant, by Mark Rosenblatt 25.06.2025
- The Play Podcast - 096 - Dealer's Choice, by Patrick Marber 29.05.2025
- The Play Podcast - 095 - Rhinoceros, by Eugène Ionesco 12.05.2025
- The Play Podcast - 094 - Oedipus the King, by Sophocles 27.03.2025
- The Play Podcast - 093 - Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov 10.03.2025
- The Play Podcast - 092 - A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry 10.02.2025
- The Play Podcast - 091 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams 28.01.2025
- The Play Podcast - 090 - The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde 07.01.2025
- The Play Podcast - 089 - Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett 16.12.2024
- The Play Podcast - 088 - Roots, by Arnold Wesker 05.12.2024
- The Play Podcast - 087 - Look Back in Anger, by John Osborne 25.11.2024
- The Play Podcast - 086 - Death of England, by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams 05.11.2024
- The Play Podcast - 085 - The Real Thing, by Tom Stoppard 17.10.2024
- The Play Podcast - 084 - Abigail's Party, by Mike Leigh 27.09.2024
- The Play Podcast - 083 -The Caretaker, by Harold Pinter 10.07.2024
- The Play Podcast - 082 - People, Places & Things, by Duncan Macmillan 20.06.2024
- The Play Podcast - 081 - The Government Inspector, by Nikolay Gogol 31.05.2024
- The Play Podcast - 080 - Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill 10.05.2024