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Join Cheek by Jowl's Artistic Directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 'Not True, But Useful...' a podcast series all about theatre, acting, directing, and life. Produced, hosted and e...
Join Cheek by Jowl's Artistic Directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 'Not True, But Useful...' a podcast series all about theatre, a...
Join Cheek by Jowl's Artistic Directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 'Not True, But Useful...' a podcast series all about theatre, a...
Join Cheek by Jowl's Artistic Directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 'Not True, But Useful...' a podcast series all about theatre, a...
Declan and Nick think about advice they give to themselves when they are making a play, and the problem of letting yourself get in the way o...
Join Cheek by Jowl's Artistic Directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 'Not True, But Useful...' a podcast series all about theatre, a...
Time is never the character’s friend - but this makes it useful to the actor. In this episode, Declan chats to Lucie about time in Shakespea...
Declan talks to Lucie about a question he can’t stand: can he share the exercises he uses in the rehearsal room? He urges directors to ask n...
Lucie talks to Declan about his favourite word in the rehearsal room: Flow. Flow is like love, like a football match, like a good evening sp...
Declan presents an unusual piece of advice to actors: forget things. He talks to Lucie about how this allows the actor to be truly present a...
Imposter syndrome is another longstanding problem that most actors face. For Declan, however, it is not unique to actors: the characters of...
In this episode, Declan chats to Lucie about the age-old problem actors face of not ‘feeling’ what their character feels, and whether the ch...
In this episode, Declan and Lucie discuss the transgression and intensity of Sophocles' classic tragedy, Oedipus. They talk about Decla...
In this episode, Declan and Lucie discuss the subject of love in As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet. They talk about the BBC Open Universit...
Beginning with a reading of Hamlet, Declan dives deep into the universal themes of (non-)existence, futility, and being driven by the fear o...
In this episode, Declan and Lucie talk about the issue of heightened behaviour and the act of being surprised on stage and on screen. The mu...
This week, Declan joins Lucie to discuss the limitations of language and how the body ought to be prioritised in the rehearsal space. The mu...
In this first episode of our winter mini-series, Declan revisits 'character', a much discussed subject, and questions how useful i...
We're back with some special bonus episodes for the cold winter months... Subscribe to 'Not True, But Useful...' on Apple Pod...
To mark 40 years since our first ever touring production - The Country Wife - we're delighted to release a bonus episode of Series 3. D...
Declan and Nick discuss Troilus and Cressida , Shakespeare's scathing anti-war satire on glory, chivalry and doomed love. Find out why...
Declan and Nick take a deep dive into one of Shakespeare's best loved comedies, Much Ado About Nothing . They join Lucie to discuss the...
Ahi ahi ahi ahi! This week’s discussion takes us back to Piccolo Teatro di Milano and Cheek by Jowl’s last live onstage production before th...
This week, Declan and Nick talk the politics of acting, the importance of ensemble, and the danger of logic in Shakespeare's Measure fo...
If you think Chekhov’s plays are about nothing happening, think again. This week, Declan, Nick and Lucie discuss Three Sisters , another pla...
This week, Declan, Nick and Lucie discuss Hamlet , including their experiences of staging the play as a ballet for the Bolshoi (without the...
This week, Declan, Nick and Lucie discuss Twelfth Night , Shakespeare’s great tale of love, loss, and self-deception. More information about...
Welcome back for another series of Not True, But Useful! To kick off Series 3, Declan and Nick join Lucie Dawkins to discuss Macbeth , a pla...
Series 3 of ‘Not True But Useful’ is on its way! The new series will see Declan, Nick, and Lucie returning to their mics to share personal i...
In the final episode of the series, Declan, Nick and Lucie discuss Shakespeare's 'badly behaved' play Cymbeline . They chat a...
This week, we head to Russia to discuss Pushkin's great lyrical masterpiece Boris Godunov , a compelling exposé of the seductive appeal...
'The whole point of making art is that you’re sharing something with somebody that cannot be put into words.’ This week, Declan, Nick a...
How does theatre make us less alone? What is the role that the audience has to play in the act of art? What does Shakespeare have to teach u...
"If it's not painful, it ain't love!" This week, Declan and Nick talk about Shakespeare's As You Like It, paying special atte...
Blood, sex, tyranny, and sausages! Declan and Nick join Lucie to discuss Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry's gruesome and raucous 1896 satire. More...
Tis Pity She's a Whore is a vivid and violent Jacobean tragedy about a brother and sister’s passionate descent into hell. It is also th...
Declan and Nick discuss Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, a play in which unity of time, place and action are hurled aside as we range across...
Cheek by Jowl are back with a new series of 'Not True, But Useful...' as Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod and host Lucie Dawkins bri...
Like the delicious Italian meal made from the remainders of other pasta, in this episode we have assembled the tastiest bonus offcuts from t...
How does an actor go about stepping into a character? How can they begin to embody them onstage? In Declan's view, a character is not f...
Declan and Nick talk about the predicament of being a human, and how that helps us to think about plays. They consider cats, Breaking Bad, S...
Co-Artistic Director Nick Ormerod joins Lucie to dive into the world of theatre design, discussing how design can be informed by the space a...
In this episode, Declan Donnellan talks about motive, and ways of examining why people in real life and characters in plays do what they do....
Declan and Nick talk about how words can behave treacherously, and explore what this means with staging the great plays. With Fawlty Towers,...
In this episode, Declan and Nick discuss an important idea in their work: 'Thresholds', following on from their discussion about &...
In this episode, Declan and Nick talk about the history of their collaboration, and the way they work together as director and designer. The...
What do lobsters, Shakespeare, the room next door, and our lockdown all have in common? They all have something to tell us about space and t...
In this first episode, Cheek by Jowl's Artistic Director Declan Donnellan talks to Lucie Dawkins about his thoughts on life, quarantine...