Below is an archive of audio podcasts which includes interviews with performers and feedback from greenroom audiences.  New content will be added regularly and if you sign up to the RSS feed you will be the first to know about it!  And if you subscribe to our podcasts you can download them straight from iTunes.

Our monthly radio show podcasts will be coming soon so…er, watch this space!

An interview with The Two Wrongies, broadcast on Monday 7 March’11 on ALL FM.

On Friday 11 March’11, The Two Wrongies bring their strange and schizophrenically chaotic world to greenroom in a risqué dance-comedy celebrating the glitz and glamour of show time and the sad and grubby truths that sometimes lurk behind, World of Wrong.

It’s dance, it’s comedy, it’s theatre. It’s funny, it’s tongue in cheek, it’s daring. It has some serious bits and some rude bits.

A fresh, young duo from Brighton on their first visit to Manchester The Two Wrongies are ‘the double act who dare to do the dirty!’

Additional direction by: Kim Noble, Stuart Silver & Petra Massey [Spymonkey]
Produced by The Basement, Brighton.

www.thetwowrongies.co.uk

An interview with Wayne Steven Jackson, broadcast on ALL FM on Mon 29 Nov’10. The interview gives an insight into the process of  creating How I Lost The Pound Coin (And Why I Want It Back).

How I Lost The Pound Coin… began life at greenroom during emergency09 as a performance originating from an experience Wayne had when he was about three years old after swallowing a pound coin. Wayne opened our Method Lab showcase (April 2010), putting into circulation a pound coin which he would trace around the country using its own website – thelostpoundcoin.co.uk

How I Lost The Pound Coin (And Why I Want It Back) tells the story of the lost pound coin since we last saw it sacrificed to the hands of fate via the greenroom bar till. Now, it is back with one hell of a story to tell. Trawling through issues of memory and certainty, he confronts the fleeting moments of performance in an attack on his own memory.

After making ‘funny, baffling, mystical, absurd and mind bending’ work for the past five years with Escape Theatre, Wayne Jackson has created this solo piece as a climax to the journey of his coin. Trawling through issues of memory and certainty, he confronts the fleeting moments of performance in an attack on his own memory.

In this interview, Bethanie and Eleni of Levantes Dance Theatre; regular performers at greenroom, talk about a wide range of subjects related to their artistic output, making for a fascinating listen for anyone interested in Contemporary Dance.

Levantes Dance Theatre consists of key practitioners Bethanie Harrison and Eleni Edipidi. The company works primarily with Dance Theatre, with a constant enthusiasm for fusing artistic disciplines and indulging in vibrant aesthetics.

The work is current, bold and honest. Intrigued by the draw of obscurity, the crux of work visually explores contradictions, blending and sinking into equal measures of the mundane and divine. Both the absurd and familiar are married together with set and costume, which in turn, are inhabited, developed, eaten, destroyed, worn, applicated and distributed within process.

We have a kitsch admiration for routine and value the body’s capacity to communicate in its most basic form. We wrap our audience in a cocoon of colourful activity striving to cushion their acceptance of an oddness, which in time melts into a viable element of the landscape.

Another Alumni of the greenroom bar, Jonathan McGrath is the founder and director of Ikebana Performance Company.

Ikebana is an ancient form of Japanese flower arranging wherein the selection of flowers are held with equal importance to their vessel and upon which surface they are placed and in which room and light. All factors that make the experience are manipulated.  Ikebana Performance Company make theatrical performative experiences with the same philosophy in mind.  The goal is to build immersive performative compositions wherein an audience member can physically explore the environment that the performance inhabits.

In this interview Jonathan gives us a brief history of the commissions he has received from greenroom, as well as giving us an overview of his artistic development since he left; Ikebana have gone on to make several large scale site-specific theatre performances, Jonathan has also delivered several large-scale corporate events for marketing events agency Ear to the Ground.

Alice Booth is a founding member of Imitating the Dog, tells us a little about the work they do and are interested in, and about previous shows they have performed here at greenroom.

Alice is now Creative Producer at the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster. She also teaches performance and directs shows in higher education institutions across the UK, and has recently completed a Practice-as-Research PhD in the department of Theatre Studies, Lancaster.