JST Conversations

Jermyn Street Theatre

Every good play starts a conversation. From Jermyn Street Theatre, JST Conversations is a wide-ranging series of debates, discussions, talkbacks, interviews and more.

3 Episodes

Cancel Culture is an Overblown Myth (Nels Abbey, Matthew Xia, Gideon Skinner, Ariel Hessayon)
8/19/2022
56:18
Matthew Xia (Artistic Director ATC), Gideon Skinner (Head of Political Research, Ipsos UK), Nels Abbey (Author/Essayist) and Dr Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths University) discuss all things 'Cancel Culture'. Has it gone too far? Or is it a convenient fiction?
Genius: What on Earth is it?
6/5/2022
52:51
Playwright Ella Hickson FRSL, Critic/Poet Roz Kaveney and Actor/Academic Jack Klaff discuss the concept of 'Genius'. What does this concept mean? How should we define it? Has modern society diluted its meaning and power?
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New Wine in Old Wineskins: The Art of Adapting the Classics
6/5/2022
53:16
Playwright and Professor Simon Stephens (National Theatre, Young Vic, Royal Exchange), Director, Academic and Dramaturg Zoé Svensden (Cambridge University, RSC, National Theatre) and Playwright April de Angelis (National Theatre, Royal Court) discuss the art of adaptation. Why do it? How should we do it? Do old texts need shaking up? Or do they need to be presented 'faithfully'?

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JST Conversations

Jermyn Street Theatre

3 Episodes

Cancel Culture is an Overblown Myth (Nels Abbey, Matthew Xia, Gideon Skinner, Ariel Hessayon)

Genius: What on Earth is it?

New Wine in Old Wineskins: The Art of Adapting the Classics