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Here are the episodes for Talking Theatre. In every episode, Allan Mackey (Production Ottawa) and Andrew Snowdon (Apt 613) talk about some theatre-related topic, tell you what's running now, what we've been seeing, what we've been liking, or talk to some cooler-people-than-us from inside the theatre community. Usually some combination of the bunch. You'll always find our latest episodes right here but you can also subscribe to us on itunes by going to productionottawa.com/go/itunes.

Talking Youth Infringement

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In this 16th episode of Talking Theatre, Allan sits and talks to Lily Sutherland, junior producer of the upcoming 15th Youth Infringement festival, as well as Jeremy Piamonte and Ryan Nadon, two of the young directors directing shows for the festival.

REVIEW: Deathtrap

Production Ottawa review for Deathtrap, running at the Ottawa Little Theatre

Ottawa Little Theatre continues celebrating their 100th season with Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. Produced by Ottawa Little Theatre previously in the 70s and turned into a movie starring Michael Caine in the 80s, Deathtrap is the longest running thriller-comedy on Broadway. Should you see it?

Episode 15, False Assumptions

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In this episode of Talking Theatre, Allan sits and talks to Lawrence Aronovitch about his world premiering play, False Assumptions, being produced by Plosive Productions in association with the Ottawa Theatre School.

Episode #14, Talking Acting with John Muggleton

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In this episode of Talking Theatre, Allan and Andrew sit and talk to John Muggleton about bikinis, acting, and working with directors. Listen to the episode.

Episode 13, HROSES and MiCasa Theatre

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In this episode of Talking Theatre, Allan has a nice long chat with Emily Pearlman and Nicolas Di Gaetano of MiCasa Theatre about Evolution Theatre’s HROSES, about their work in general, and about interplanetary politics.

Episode 12, Green and Orange

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In this episode of Talking Theatre, Allan and Andrew split up to bring you two guest segments. Andrew meets with director John P. Kelly and performer/creator Tess Mc Manus to talk about how Irish Culture fits into their work while Allan sits down with Ingrid Hansen and Kathleen Greenfield the performer and the director (and both co-creators) of the hit show Little Orange Man running as part of the Undercurrents theatre festival at the Great Canadian Theatre Company. It’s a full episode with double the awesome.

TT11, Talking Undercurrents!

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In this episode of talking theatre, Allan and Andrew chat with Patrick Gauthier about the Undercurrents festival opening at the Great Canadian Theatre Company on February 5th. We chat about Undercurrents’ origins, mandate, and most importantly, this year’s line up.

Episode 10b, Talking The Year That Was

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In this bonus episode of talking theatre, Allan and Andrew chat theatre in Ottawa over December and 2012, including Shakespeare, bus rides, and Crush Improv. We’ve also included some sound bytes cut from previous episodes and some other fun outtakes.

Episode #10, Talking Theatre with Carmen Aguirre

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The episode where Allan and Andrew jump off a cliff in a followup on last episode before sitting down to talk with Carmen Aguirre about her hit show, Blue Box, opening next week at the GCTC. Plus, we’re giving away tickets.

Episode #9, Talking Love for Theatre, with Chris Ralph, Richard Gélinas, and Catriona Leger

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The episode where Allan and Andrew talk about just theatre in general with Chris Ralph, Richard Gélinas and our first ever returning guest, Catriona Leger.