Today Ricky and Gavin talk to none other than Ken Pickering! We first met Ken when he was chair of The Marlowe Society, for our production of Tamburlaine the Great back in 2015. Ken has successfully combined the careers of playwright, theatre director, academic, examiner and writer. With over twenty published plays to his credit and a similar number of books on aspects of theatre he has been Professor of Theatre at Universities on both sides of the Atlantic and Chief Examiner for a number of major awarding bodies including lead assessor for the Council of Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre.

Find out more about the Marlowe Society here www.marlowe-society.org/

Find out more about the Post Show Q&A of Tamburlaine here www.terripaddock.com/photos-and-podcast-why-we-should-edit-classics-like-hamlet-and-marlowes-tamburlaine/

During his conversation, Ken talks about:

ReShake Theatre Company, Gorboduc, Rose Theatre Bankside, Christopher Marlowe, Musical Theatre, Reading, Anthology of Speeches, Performance Notes, Inspire young performers, Laurence Olivier, Female speeches, Not poetry but dialogue, Psychological actors, Voice conscious actors, Marlowe’s Women, “Theatre/Drama is a living artform”, The Tempest, John Gielgud, Peter Brook, Look Back in Anger, Elvis Presley, Macbeth, Teaching, Music, Dr Faustus, Stephen Joseph, Davin Campton, Dover, Canterbury, The Mystery Plays, Marlowe Society, Murder in the Cathedral, Poland, Grotowski, Chanel Theatre Company, Tamburlaine the Great, Josh hinds, Terri Paddock, “Marlowe asks about the meaning of being alive.”, Asides, Levels of the stage, Theatre Craft, Language, Decasyllabic line, Marlowe 450, Fourth Monkey, Sir Henry Irving, Marlowe Theatre, Marlowe in exile in Italy, Fake Death, Elizabeth, Was Marlowe a spy?, Length of Dialogue, Strindberg, Dido, Queen of Carthage, As you Like it, Interrogating the world, Lambeth Conference, Canterbury Plays, Drama education, Thinking performer, Accelerated courses, Rigour, Nurture not torture, Edwardian Theatre,

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