Birmingham Repertory Theatre
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Sep 30, 2026
Peter PurvesHOST
Yeah
Julian GloverGUEST
... funnily enough, I'm reading Laurence Olivier's C- uh, Confessions of an Actor at the moment, and he was talking all about it, absolutely that, going into Elsie Fogerty's and, uh, and then going into Birmingham Rep and playing all those parts which, you know, sometimes the leading actor was off, so he'd have to play 85 years old or-
Peter PurvesHOST
Yeah
Julian GloverGUEST
... you know, then the next week he'd be playing 15.
Dickson MbiGUEST
Yeah, so after Sadler's Wells, we have a small UK tour.
Dickson MbiGUEST
We go to Norwich, we go to Birmingham Rep, we go to the Alborough Festival.
Dickson MbiGUEST
And because this piece is with eight dancers and three live musicians, so like my two worlds, you know, the dance and music all coming together as one.
Dickson MbiGUEST
And man, trust me, man, this one, I got to tell you, mate, if you really want to see real dancing, I'm going to say the real, real dancing and see how everyone gives their heart and soul and then enjoy some real, real music.
Mickey JoHOST
And they have responded to those by making some significant changes.
Mickey JoHOST
This production debuted at the Birmingham Rep., before embarking on a UK tour.
Mickey JoHOST
I just saw it this evening at the Woking Theatre, where it plays for the remainder of the week.
Mickey JoHOST
If you are local to this venue, be sure to go and check it out.
Brian CoxGUEST
Him, Lindsay Anderson...
Brian CoxGUEST
Michael Elliot, two of the greatest directors I've ever worked with, and a guy called Ronald Ayer as well, who I first worked with at Birmingham Rep.
Brian CoxGUEST
And these were amazing men with such clear clarity of purpose and vision.
Brian CoxGUEST
And it just affected you.
Mark McConvilleHOST
But for the purpose of our episode here, we are talking about the Chortle article.
Mark McConvilleHOST
So it goes on to say, researchers interviewed people who had completed the 10-week LGBTQ plus comedy course held in Birmingham Rep and said they identified greater confidence, a sense of community, resilience and personal growth amongst those who took part.
Mark McConvilleHOST
However, the study was limited with just six people questioned.
Mark McConvilleHOST
it's sometimes you're going to get that small study group you know and they say that oh it doesn't have you know huge statistical significance but this is qualitative data this is real world cold face data so i think the more of these that happen you know my my human laughter education thing that i did for my thesis and pilot study and all that i think i only had seven seven eight seven i think i had seven participants in that so Yeah, as long as it's being done, as long as it's being collated the data.
Mike GrahamHOST
If you haven't got a ticket for it, there aren't any left of a frame.
Mike GrahamHOST
You can always come to the Birmingham Rep on November 13th, which
Mike ParryHOST
is a Friday, provided the world
Mike GrahamHOST
hasn't ended by then.