The OffCasts
Oberon Books is a proud partner of OffCast, the theatre podcast from OffWestEnd.com, an irreverent, wry and unmissable overview of what is going on right now in the fringe theatre scene. Tune in to see what everyone is talking about, and receive an exclusive OffCast discount on selected Oberon books.
Series 3 Episode 4: In the last of the series, OffCast talks to 2010 Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer Roisin Conaty about Catholics, fate and Irish women, and we find out about the new musical by Radio 1's 'King of Cabaret' Des O'Connor; plus, as A Walk On Part returns to the Soho Theatre, we look at how a new generation is turning political theatre into a fun night out...
Roising Conaty: Destiny's Dickhead is at the Soho Theatre, 4-7 April. Des O'Connor's Toxic Bankers is at the Leicester Square Theatre until 14 April.
Plus we're very pleased to recommend three phenomenal new OffWestEnd shows:
- Shivered (Southwark Playhouse);
- Going Dark (Young Vic);
- Someone to Blame (King's Head).
Guest reviewer: Tom Wicker.
Running time: 17min 40s
Off West End theatres play a very important role in London and in society as a whole - important on stage in taking risks to push the boundaries of live performance, important for the audience in entertaining the intellect and stretching the imagination and, most of all, important as a breeding ground for new talent and new ideas that feed into our culture, reinventing and reinvigorating us.
OffWestEnd.com exists to celebrate the full spectrum of Off West End theatres and to draw increasing numbers of the general public into the heady darkness and dangerous passion of these little powerhouses perched above a pub, tucked under a railway bridge, packed into a disused warehouse, built around a butcher's shop or suspended above a shopping centre.
Oberon Books will also be sponsoring the Most Promising Playwright category at The Off West End Theatre Awards in February 2012.
Click here for more info on the Offies
Ambivalences: A Portrait of Arnold Wesker from A to W
by Arnold Wesker, Chiara Montenero
ISBN: 9781849431323
by Colin Teevan, Ron Hutchinson, Ryan Craig, Lee Blessing, Amit Gupta, David Greig, John Donnelly, Elena Gremina, Zinnie Harris, Diana Son
ISBN: 9781849431521
