The Maybe You Like It Podcast
54 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -The revamped Maybe You Like It Podcast is the podcast all about adaptation! We take stories from anywhere and everywhere, and talk about how we'd tell them ourselves. Plays, films, books, music, even just a tweet.
Hosted by Jake Morry and Caleb Barron, and with music from YouTube and Twitch sensation Kav Crossley, the Maybe You Like It team are joined each episode by guests from a range of creative backgrounds, including actors, directors, sound designers, lighting designers, musical directors, comedians, film buffs, and even a dinosaur enthusiast to get creative and bring our favourite stories old and new to a different medium. And of course, we have fun doing it.
Hosted by Jake Morry (@jake_morry) and Caleb Barron (@caleblebster), and with music from Youtube sensation Kavana Crossley, the Maybe You Like It team are joined each episode by incredibley talented guests from a range of creative backgrounds to chat everything about our hypothetical storytelling experience. And of course, we have fun doing it!
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Episodes
The Never Ending Story
May 26, 2022 06:58 - 58 minutes - 46 MBBack to a classic episode this week where Jake and Caleb are joined by Sally Garner-Gibbons to stage the 1984 family classic The Never Ending Story. We discuss outdoor promenade theatre, puppetry, old people moaning about kids not reading, and more! Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our adaptation. Hit us up on our socials, or email us: Twitter/Instagram: @maybeulikeit Facebook: @maybeyoulikeit Email: [email protected] Cal...
A Man Named Twix
May 10, 2022 07:16 - 53 minutes - 123 MBThis week, Jake and Caleb are adapting an anecdote that Caleb heard from a guy that heard from a guy that his dad knew about a guy that they used to go drinking with. We talk adapting real life stories, the effect of degrees of separation on the way we tell stories, and why there is a man with the name Twix. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our adaptation. Hit us up on our socials, or email us: Twitter/Instagram: @maybeulikeit Faceb...
Maybe You Like... A Reboot?
May 05, 2022 17:11 - 5 minutes - 11.8 MBWe're back! Jake and Caleb are bringing the podcast back and as well as all our usual hijinks of bringing films and more to the stage, we're going broader. Any media or story of any kind being adapted into any kind of storytelling we choose. We're talking video games into community theatre; anecdotes from the pub into video web series; and twitter threads into board games. Get subscribed so you don't miss out! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Home Alone - Christmas Special
December 23, 2021 19:39 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBJake and Caleb are enjoying a drink at the Maybe You Like It Christmas party instead of a podcast episode this week. Virtually everyone has made it along to celebrate. As long as Elspeth doesn't interrupt us with news of a big name producer that wants us to pitch a stage adaptation of Home Alone to them, we should have a nice, relaxing evening... We're going to be taking a few weeks off before returning to weekly podcasts in 2022. Thanks for listening this year and thank you to all our gues...
Top 5 Ideas of 2021
December 17, 2021 07:30 - 31 minutes - 72.8 MBThis week, Jake's zoom drops out during recording so Caleb decides to run through his top 5 ideas from the podcast this year. Or at the very least, these are 5 ideas he remembers. We've had an awesome year making the podcast and we have to thank all the incredible guests that have joined us throughout the year. Thank you too for listening each week. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our staging. Let us know what your favourite ideas f...
John Finnermore's Double Acts: Penguin Diplomacy
December 09, 2021 07:35 - 36 minutes - 83.4 MBThis week, Jake and Caleb are staging a radio play! John Finnermore's Double Acts are short comedy-drama two-handers written for Radio Four. Penguin Diplomacy, the story of a British and Danish diplomatic forming a bond as they argue the toss over a small island in the South Pacific, is the focus of this episode. We blast through everything from casting to costume to lighting to rewriting as we swiftly stage this neat two-hander. Listen to the radio play here. Don't forget to rate the podc...
Modern Love: When The Doorman Is Your Main Man (S1E1)
December 02, 2021 12:54 - 56 minutes - 92.5 MBThis week, our favourite guest (ranked by number of appearances) Elspeth Barron brings us the first episode of anthology series Modern Love, based on the NYT column of the same name. We talk about the idea of 'B movies' and how they can translate to theatre, how to jump through time, and the power of entrances and exits in theatrical spaces. We come up with converyer belts, revolving doors on a revlove, and much much more! Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you ha...
Inside No. 9: Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room
November 25, 2021 07:42 - 54 minutes - 125 MBTo celebrate our 42nd episode, this one is just Jake and Caleb chatting about staging another episode of Inside No. 9. Conversation ranges from lunchtime theatre to the progression of comedy to creative uses of curtains in spaces that really aren't built for them. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our staging. Hit us up on our socials, or email us: Twitter/Instagram: @maybeulikeit Facebook: @maybeyoulikeit Email: info@maybeyoulikeit...
Karel Čapek's Rossum's Universal Robots
November 18, 2021 07:12 - 1 hour - 138 MBThis week, our esteemed guest (director, dramaturg and facilitator) Bobby Brook brings us a play. We tackle Rossum's Universal Robots, a title that used the word robot for the first ever time, and talk about finding the ripe and present themes in a 100-year-old text. In fact, we talk text a lot. We also chat a little about setting, sound, farce, and moving walls. You can find Bobby on Instagram @bobskibee. I can't figure out how to link a pdf into this description so if you want to read th...
Drop Dead Gorgeous
November 12, 2021 15:31 - 1 hour - 124 MBThis week, Caleb and Jake are in person once again and we're joined by Director Max Lindsay to stage the now all- star Drop Dead Gorgeous... and it's a musical! Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our staging. Hit us up on our socials, or email us: Twitter/Instagram: @maybeulikeit Facebook: @maybeyoulikeit Email: [email protected] Caleb is on twitter, instagram and letterboxd @caleblebster Jake is on letterboxd @jakereesh, i...
Halloweentown
October 28, 2021 17:51 - 49 minutes - 87.8 MBFor our fourth and final spooky Spooktoberfest episode, we're joined IN PERSON (much to the detriment of the audio quality) by Barney Newman to stage the Disney Original Halloweentown. Well I say stage... it becomes more of an immersive experience slash club night with Halloweentown themes... strap in for a very very silly one. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our staging. Hit us up on our socials, or email us: Twitter/Instagram: @ma...
The Babadook
October 21, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBFor our third instalment of Spooktoberfest, we're joined by Will Foxton to stage the iconic Aussie horror flick The Babadook. We discuss how much this film scared Caleb; the lasting impact of the Babadook as a gay icon; and how to genuinely make the most of this beautiful story about grief as we bring it into a theatrical space. We also tackle the logistical challenge of a young boy being thrown around the stage and a small dog that has to be murdered every night. Find Will Foxton on twitte...
Shaun of the Dead
October 14, 2021 07:00 - 53 minutes - 121 MBThis week we're joined by actor and puppeteer Fred Davis to discuss the British cult-classic Shaun of the Dead. We deconstruct the first of the Cornetto Trilogy turning it from a zombie-movie-pastiche into a meta-play about grief and remembering loved ones. Safe to say, we didn't even try to stay on the rails with this one. Find Fred Davis is on twitter and instagram. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our staging. Hit us up on our soc...
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
October 07, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBWe are back and it's Spooktoberfest! For our first spoooooky episode we're joined by Dan Dawes, artistic director of Idle Discourse to discuss the iconic Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Dan brings us four entirely different ideas at completely different scales and Jake insists on finding a way to mash them all together. It just about works! Find Dan Dawes and Idle Discourse on twitter. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about ou...
Sully
July 20, 2021 20:25 - 1 hour - 110 MB2 WEEKS UNTIL PLEADING STUPIDITY IN LONDON. TICKETS: www.maybeyoulikeit.co.uk You're gonna want to stick around to the end of this one. This week we're joined by designer and law extrodinaire Rhiannon Ogden-Jones to stage our first Hanksisode: Sully: The Miracle on The Hudson. We talk stagings big and small, and how to deal with a plot that repeats itself. Bonus content at the end of the episode where we hear about Rhi's TWO emergencies on planes... Don't forget to rate the podcast in app ...
Cloverfield
June 28, 2021 16:06 - 1 hour - 101 MBBUY TICKETS TO PLEADING STUPIDTY HERE. This week we're joined by Writer and Director James Nash to stage the "found-footage" sci-fi cult classic Cloverfield. We ask some big questions: what does it mean to create "found-footage" theatre? How do you put a giant monster on stage? Would Adam Curtis be willing to get involved? And we basically come up with an answer for all of them. James is on Twitter @jmsnsh Radio Elusia is on Twitter @radioelusia You can listen to Radio Elusia wherever y...
The Gravity of Us
May 24, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis week we are joined by Tom Ryalls for Epilepsy Awareness Week and we discuss staging our first ever novel on the pod! We talk about adapting Phil Stamper's debut novel 'The Gravity of Us' into a big, loud, fun musical. We get into design, song writing, storytelling through musicals, and we discuss how to make theatre accessible for people with epilepsy. Tom's show 'Can You See Into A Black Hole?' is part of the Iris Summer Festival from June 28th to July 3rd. You can buy tickets here. ...
Inside No.9: The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
May 18, 2021 12:38 - 1 hour - 121 MBThis week we're joined by actor, member of sketch comedy group Quirks and Foibles, and recently announced host of the Chichester Free Fringe, Katie Bennett! And it's a doozie, because we discuss staging Inside No. 9 Episode 'The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge'! We wax lyrical about the show we're all huge fans of, talk about how we'd stage the series in general, and then dive into the episode, in which two of England's most notorious and feared witch-finders are summoned by Sir Andrew Pike to th...
The Wicker Man (1973)
April 27, 2021 16:24 - 1 hour - 93 MBThis week we're joined by fellow podcasters Nancy Netherwood and Sam Webber from the Play Ground Theatre Podcast to discuss staging The Wicker Man (1973). Things get weird as we take on this folk-horror-musical-cult-classic that stars Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland. The film follows puritan Police Sergeant Howie from mainland Scotland as he arrives on a strange island to investigate the disappearance, and possible murder, of a young girl. It's May Day on this pagan isle an...
Black Mirror's Bandersnatch
April 17, 2021 16:38 - 1 hour - 125 MBOur second Black Mirror episode! We're joined by producer Gregor Weir to chat staging the choose-your-own-Netflix-adventure-TV-Event for a couple of years ago. We chat chosing mechanics, multi-rolling casts, satisfying the audience, Derren Brown, and bringing out themes. Follow along with a flowchart of the options in Bandersnatch here. Gregor is on Twitter @weir_gregor Follow the VR show he talks about @livetotellshow Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you hav...
Jaws
April 05, 2021 15:01 - 1 hour - 117 MBThis week we're joined by host of the podcast 'I Saw That Years Ago', Martyn Darkly to stage the original blockbuster, Steven Spielberg's iconic Jaws. We discuss Jaws as action-theatre, ballet, and even a drive-in cinema on the side of a cliff only accessible by boat that could tangentially be called theatre if you really wanted it to. You can listen to I Saw That Years Ago here or wherever you get your podcasts. They are also on Twitter @istyashow. Martyn is on Twitter @martyndarkly. Do...
Midnight in Paris
March 30, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutes - 132 MBMidnight in Paris: The Musical! This week we're joined by our first married couple, Producer Radha Mamidipudi and Musical Director and Composer Alex Beetschen to chat about the Owen Wilson vehicle Midnight in Paris. The film follows a successful screenwriter trying to make the change to novelist as he enjoys a break in Paris with his fiancée and her disapproving parents. He dreams of Paris in the 1920s until, by a bizarre stroke of luck, he is transported there each night to meet his litera...
Ocean's Twelve
March 20, 2021 18:16 - 1 hour - 137 MBIt's a crazy genre mash!! With Harrison Gale! This week we're joined by our regular collaborator Harrison Gale to discuss the 2004 Heist Film Ocean's Twelve. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, it is the second installment of the Ocean's franchise and the sequel to Ocean's Eleven (2001). The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy García, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, and Bernie Mac. We decide the film can't realy be staged so we ...
Nanny McPhee
March 09, 2021 08:30 - 1 hour - 120 MBThis week we're joined by director Issy Paul to discuss the 2005 family comedy fantasy Nanny McPhee. Written by Emma Thompson, Nanny McPhee is based on the Nurse Matilda books and follows Mr Brown (Colin Firth) as he struggles to find a nanny with the stamina to handle all seven of his naughty children. Shrouded in magic and mystery, Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) arrives to teach the children five lessons, and perhaps the adults a thing or two along the way. You can find Issy on Twitter @is...
The Others (2001) with Matt Hassall
March 02, 2021 08:04 - 1 hour - 138 MBThe Haunted House where you do the Haunting?? This week, we're joined by a director whose credits have taken him from the Royal Exchange, to The Old Vic, the Almedia, Southwark Playhouse and Lamda this week to discuss staging 2001 Horror Film The Others. Matt Hassall brings us this English-language Spanish gothic supernatural psychological horror film. Grace (Nicole Kidman), the devoutly religious mother of Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), moves her family to the English co...
The Social Network
February 20, 2021 12:56 - 1 hour - 105 MBThis week we take a look at the Fincher-Sorkin collaboration, The Social Network. The film charts the rise of Mark Zuckerberg as he creates the most popular social network platform ever. As we talk staging, we discuss potential multi-part sequels, using framing devices onstage, reimagining film for the theatre space rather than recreating it, and how best to utilise the incredible score that this film boasts. You can find the Average Blokes show on Instagram and YouTube and you can find Jo...
The Invisible Man (2020)
February 13, 2021 13:34 - 1 hour - 127 MBWe're back from our winter break (and sketch show break, which you can still listen to here), and we are joined by Northern Broadsides Producer Eve Stollery to discuss The Invisible Man (2020) Written and directed by Leigh Whannell, and loosely based on the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells. It follows a woman who believes she is being stalked and gaslit by her abusive and wealthy boyfriend even after his apparent suicide, and ultimately deduces that he has acquired the ability to beco...
Love Actually - Christmas Special
December 26, 2020 09:00 - 48 minutes - 102 MBIt's the Christmas Special! And this year we are joined by James Akka, deviser of our BRAND NEW FREE SKETCH COMEDY SHOW, and also of 50 First Dates Episode Fame, to discuss the ever-popular Love Actually. Can it be staged? No, absolutely not. So we do some riffing about VR instead. Enjoy! First time listeners, we promise we do actually try and stage things most of the time. And of course, its all to promote our Free Sketch comedy show, in support of the brilliant homelessness charity The Ga...
Definitely an ordinary episode
December 21, 2020 15:00 - 6 minutes - 13.8 MBSo we've skipped a couple of pod episodes recently to work on something we're very excited about... our brand new audio sketch comedy show called THE HALF-HOUR COMEDY HOUR Listen to Jake and Caleb tell you all about it, and the wonderful charity we're supporting, in this bonus episode. Or if you just can't wait, visit https://www.mabeyoulikeit.co.uk/halfhourcomedyhour The podcast will be back very soon... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dominic Cummings' Rose Garden Press Conference
December 04, 2020 08:04 - 56 minutes - 83.1 MBThis week we're joined by Cesca Echlin and we're doing something a bit different. Infamously, Boris Johnson's chief political advisor Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules to drive his wife and son to a cottage in the grounds of his parents house in Durham. He subsequently broke the rules further with an eye-sight-testing trip to Barnard Castle. A month later, he was caught out by the media and sat down for a press conference in 10 Downing Street's rose garden. That press conference is what ...
Maybe You'd Like a Lockdown Trailer?
November 30, 2020 15:18 - 53 seconds - 1.77 MBYou may have seen our Lockdown-themed video trailer knocking around our social media channels the last few week. Well, we thought we'd pop it on the stream to replace our year old trailer too! If you haven't seen the accompanying video, you can catch it on our socials, @maybeulikeit on Twitter and Instagram and @maybeyoulikeit on facebook On the Maybe You Like It Podcast, we take plays, films and more that have never been staged before or are never likely to be staged again, and... talk ab...
Perfect Strangers and 18 other names...
November 26, 2020 10:47 - 50 minutes - 105 MB1 Year of the podcast! This week we're joined by writer and language expert Anna Myrmus to add a NINETEENTH adaptation to the Guinness World Record holder for most adapted film of all time: Perfect Strangers, AKA Intimate Strangers, AKA Nothing to hide, AKA Le Jeu, AKA Stranger in My Pocket, AKA Loud Connection, AKA Unknown Subscriber, and the list goes on!! A group of old friends and their partners meet up one evening for a dinner party hosted by Marie and Vincent. A rare lunar eclipse is ...
Inside Out
November 18, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBThis week we're joined by Elspeth Barron (again!) to discuss the perpetually tear-jerking Pixar film, Inside Out. Inside Out follows 11-year-old Riley as she navigates the challenge of moving from Minnesota to San Francisco. We see her emotions, in her mind, as they try to keep control of the situation and keep Riley joyful! The film is directed by Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen, and it stars Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, and Lewis Black. Our stagin...
La La Land
November 10, 2020 14:27 - 1 hour - 130 MBThis week we are joined by Musical Director Josh Cottell and we're discussing made-for-film musical La La Land La La Land is a 2016 American musicalromantic drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as an aspiring actress, who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock, and J. K. Simmons also star. With Music by Justin Hurwitz and lyrics by Pasek and Paul. We...
The Truman Show
October 28, 2020 13:44 - 52 minutes - 112 MBThis week we are joined by actor and director Ellie Cooper and we're discussing the one and only 'The Truman Show' The Truman Show is a 1998 American psychological science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir, produced by Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, and Adam Schroeder, and written by Niccol. The film stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, a man who grew up living an ordinary life that—unbeknownst to him—takes place on a large set populated by actors for a televis...
A Quiet Place
October 17, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBAfter a brief Press Cuttings break (which you can still listen to here) we are joined by our very own theme tune composer Kav Crossley, and we're discussing a film known for its incredible sound design, A Quiet Place (2018). Sound designed by Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn, A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by and starring John Krasinski. Written by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and Krasinski, the plot revolves around a father (Krasinski) ...
Press Cuttings - First 5 Minutes
September 23, 2020 16:09 - 8 minutes - 18.6 MBOur radio play, Press Cuttings, is available to listen to for FREE right NOW. You can get it on our Maybe You Like It Presents stream wherever you get your podcasts or go to our website. Here is the first 5 minutes of the play to whet your appetite for radio podcast theatre. We'll be back in a couple of weeks with our regular slate of podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Press Cuttings Trailer!
September 14, 2020 19:21 - 1 minute - 4.41 MBWe've taken a break from the podcast for the last couple of weeks because Jake and Caleb have been hard at work on our first radio play! It will be released this Wednesday 16th September. Ever since we covered this text on the podcast, we've been hard at work in lockdown to bring you a radio play revival of one of Shaw's funniest plays. This farce takes place in an alternate history: it's April 1st, 1911, Westminster has been completely overrun by suffragettes, compulsory military servi...
Disney's Dinosaur
August 26, 2020 11:30 - 57 minutes - 89.3 MBThis week we are joined by a very special guest, amateur palaeontologist Ben Wilson, and we're discussing Disney's Dinosaur from 2000. This film made a splash with it's groundbreaking CGI animation interacting with real-life location shoots, and it still holds up 20 years on. With shades of Land Before Time, Tarzan, and the Jungle Book, Dinosaur follows Aladar, an iguanadon raised by early primates, as he joins a herd and attempts to find the hallowed 'nesting ground' after an apocalyptic ev...
Chicken Run
August 19, 2020 17:41 - 1 hour - 105 MBThis week we're joined by George Bailey from multi-arts company Chew Boy Productions to talk about Aardman animations' classic 2000 film Chicken Run. The highest-grossing stop-motion animated film in history, the plot centres on a band of chickens who see a rooster named Rocky as their only hope to escape the farm when their owners prepare to turn them into chicken pies. As we stage this in our hypothetical theatre we talk about how to make actors non-cringy chickens, keeping audiences coop...
Sorry To Bother You
August 13, 2020 18:36 - 1 hour - 105 MBThis week we're joined by the inspirational Colette Webber from the Oxide Film Podcast to talk about Boots Riley's debut feature Sorry to Bother You. The film follows Cassius Green (LaKeith Stanfield) in an alternate version of modern-day Oakland as he takes a job as a telemarketer at a strange firm called Regal View. As Cassius progresses through the company by using his "white voice" (David Cross) he struggles to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson) and hi...
Philaster, or Love Lies A Bleeding, by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
August 06, 2020 11:29 - 1 hour - 133 MBThis week Jake and Caleb are joined by Gregor Roach to stage Francis Beaumont and John Flether's 1620 play Philaster, or Love lies a Bleeding. An early Jacobean tragicomedy, the play can be read online at project Gutenberg, but here's a synopsis: The play is set in a fictionalised version of the Kingdom of Sicily, ruled by an otherwise-unnamed king. This king's father and predecessor, the ruler of Southern Italy (the Kingdom of Naples), had conquered the island of Sicily and displaced the n...
Lady Bird
July 29, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBWe're back, for good this time!? This week we're joined by Chichester Festival Theatre's Elspeth Barron to discuss Greta Gerwig's 2017 hit indie coming-of-age flick 'Lady Bird'. The film follows Lady Bird, played by Saoirse Ronan, as she navigates her final year at Catholic School in Sacramento and her relationships with family, friends, and boys. It's a comedy that packs a punch and captures it's period setting of 2002/3, as well as the end of high school, with astute observation. For our ...
Ex Machina
April 30, 2020 11:12 - 1 hour - 141 MBWe're back from home and this week Jake and Caleb are joined by film buff Jacob Barron to discuss staging 'Ex Machina'. We'll be putting the 2014 academy award winning film, directed by Alex Garland, and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno, and Oscar Isaac, into our hypothetical theatre! Follows a programmer who is invited by his CEO to administer the Turing test to an intelligent humanoid robot. This film workes wonders with just a $15 million budget, and was innovati...
George Bernard Shaw's Press Cuttings
April 22, 2020 16:39 - 1 hour - 133 MBJake and Caleb have finally worked out how to record remotely and so they kick off Season 2 with George Bernard Shaw's 1909 play Press Cuttings! Subtitled A Topical Sketch Compiled from the Editorial and Correspondence Columns of the Daily Papers, It is a farcical comedy about the suffragettes' campaign for votes for women in Britain. Shaw's own pro-feminist views are never articulated by characters in the play, but instead it ridicules the arguments of the anti-suffrage campaigners. The pl...
Hot Fuzz
March 25, 2020 18:01 - 47 minutes - 94.2 MB*Please note this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 outbreak* Jake and Caleb are joined by the co-founder of 00 Productions to discuss staging 'Hot Fuzz'. The 2007 film is the second film in the Cornetto trilogy, directed by Edgar Wright, and written by him and Simon Pegg. We'll be putting it into our hypothetical theatre! Hot Fuzz follows police officers investigating a series of mysterious deaths a West Country village. Finally, a great film on the pod?! Take a listen and let us k...
Leap Year
March 01, 2020 13:03 - 56 minutes - 111 MBHappy Leap Day! We're back after a break for our preview performances of 'Pleading Stupidity'. Jake and Caleb are joined by Learning, Education and Participation officer of Chichester Festival Theatre Elspeth Barron to discuss staging 'Leap Year'. We'll be putting the 2010 film, starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode, into our hypothetical theatre! Leap Year follows a real estate worker who heads to Ireland to ask her boyfriend to accept her wedding proposal on leap day, when tradition suppose...
50 First Dates
January 30, 2020 12:54 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBJake and Caleb are joined by actor James Akka to discuss staging '50 First Dates'. We'll be putting the 2004 Adam Sandler film, starring Drew Barrymore, into our hypothetical theatre! In 50 first dates, Henry, a womanizing marine veterinarian who falls for an art teacher named Lucy. Realizing she was involved in an accident that means she looses her memory since the crash each time she falls asleep, he resolves to win her over again each new day. This is an incredibily interesting premise s...
Brewster's Millions
January 22, 2020 21:10 - 56 minutes - 82.6 MBJake and Caleb are joined by Actor, Originator of the "Maybe You Like It, Maybe You Don't" catchphrase and enemy of the podcast Daniel Ergas to discuss staging 'Brewster's Millions'. We'll be putting Winchell Smith and Byron Onley's 1906 play, based on George McCutcheon's novel , into our hypothetical theatre. Or perhaps our dockside warehouse? 'Brewster's Millions' is about a young man who must spend a million dollars that he has inherited in order to inherit many millions more. By the ...
Christmas with the Kranks
December 23, 2019 15:00 - 43 minutes - 62.8 MBIn this Christmas Special, Jake and Caleb go it alone to discuss staging 'Christmas with the Kranks' . We'll be putting Joe Roth's 2004 film, starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, into our hypothetical theatre! Based on John Grisham's 2001 novel 'Skipping Christmas', the film follows a couple who decide to skip Christmas one year since their daughter is away, much to the chagrin of their neighbours. The couple are then sent into a panicked backtrack when their daughter calls them on Chris...