Interval Drinks podcast

Join us for the third and final series of the Interval Drinks podcast as RSC artists talk to the people who inspire them.

When the interval comes around to you discuss the show over a gin and tonic? A cup of tea? A glass of cool white wine? Or do you stick to water? How do the people who make theatre spend their intervals? And have they ever left halfway through a show? 

The Interval Drinks Podcast ran from March 2021 to December 2023. Episodes in this third series included: 

  • Actor Anyebe Godwin meeting the now late film, stage and TV actor Cleo Sylvestre about breaking down boundaries as the first black actress with a permanent role on a British TV soap
  • Actor Amber Sylvia Edwards chats to RSC Associate Artist Greg Hicks about his 50-year career in theatre
  • Director Eleanor Rhode and Illusion Director John Bulleid talk about magic, on both on and offstage
  • Playwright and Director Isobel McArthur chats to fellow Scottish Playwright Gary McNair about breaking into the industry and dealing with unexpected success
  • Novelist Maggie O’Farrell talking to director Erica Whyman about Hamnet
  • Director and environmental activist Elizabeth Freestone talks climate change with Chief Executive of The Royal Meteorological Society Dr Liz Bentley
  • Actor Ibraheem Toure catches up with Director Philip J Morris
  • Writer and director Charlie Josephine in conversation with Artistic Director Chris Sonnex (Artistic Director and joint CEO of Cardboard Citizens)
  • Actor Alexandra Gilbreath talking to Wellbeing in the Arts founder, Adam Bambrough
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Series 3 transcripts

All episodes series three of the Interval Drinks podcast are captioned when you listen through the Podbean player (above). You can also download full PDF transcripts:

The music for Interval Drinks is ‘Oberon’s Theme – King of Shadows’, originally composed by Sam Kenyon for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016).

The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation and The Kovner Foundation

New Work at the RSC is generously supported by Hawthornden Foundation and The Drue and H.J. Heinz II Charitable Trust

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