- 280
- Episodes
- 32
- Transcribed
- 95
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 43K
- YouTube views
About The History Of European Theatre
A podcast tracing the development of theatre from ancient Greece to the present day through the places and people who made theatre happen. More than just dates and lists of plays we'll learn about the social. political and historical context that fostered the creation of dramatic art.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Philip Rowe
- Category
- arts · education · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
32 of 280 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Site Specific Shakespeare: A Conversation with Benjamin Blyth
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Winter’s Tale: ‘What a Fool Honesty Is’.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Alchemist as a Plague Comedy: A Conversation with Kay Daly
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Site Specific Shakespeare: A Conversation with Benjamin Blyth
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I think we probably should talk about the green sites and the difficulties that a lot of people who perform outdoors are now running into in the traditional summer season, be it on this hemisphere or the southern hemisphere. Absolutely. And this is oddly as climate witnesses, I think site specific Shakespeare companies can serve a really can serve, funnily enough, you know, can give you quite clear accounts of just how their approach to politics. Their work is changing over the summer months and what's happening to it. There's a company I interview in Australia called Come You Spirits who talk about how the summer there and the extreme heat is altering the months that they perform in. […]
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- Benjamin Blyth
- Kay Daly
- Daniel Hahn
- Kathryn Harkup
- Marc Berley
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- YouTube views
- 43,098
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 41 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 54 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100
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- Quality
- 48
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 51
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