Jun 1, 2026 · 28 min · 13 segments
It’s the third and final episode of the second series of In Dialogue – the podcast for emerging artists. On this week’s finale, we are joined by Isaac Frost and Hannah McGregor to talk about touring…
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Isaac FrostGuest
Hannah McGregorGuestJosieHostSo I'd love to know from both of you about, about your experience touring, if you had any experience touring, and if you didn't, if you had any, like, preconceived assumptions about what touring was going to be like.
I thought it was the kind of thing that you do when you're like, you know, the national company of Les Mis [laughs] that you tour.
Yeah.
Stuff that I'd done that it was even close to touring was more, like, packing up a show into a suitcase and taking it for one show at a, at a venue in London, for instance.
And, and something that really drew me to this was that, um, it is both the real thing, it's a real tour, and also it is getting on a train with a suitcase.
Um, and I'd never really thought about that being not only a model for touring, but also something that is really, like, environmentally conscious and something that actually-
Mm
... really works and that gets work to places that isn't necessarily, you know, other towns, other locations.
My sort of personal, uh, experience of touring has been, I had a play Pie, Pint on, and we performed in Oran Mor in Glasgow, and then we went to Aberdeen.
And that was it, and it was [laughs] I wasn't even there to do anything, just to kind of make sure the, I don't know, rails didn't come off the text or something.
[laughs]
Working at a theater that takes quite big, uh, national touring productions, I only had an, a conception of touring which was about long runs that are kind of going over a year, and it's a bit monotonous, and you sort of see the cast generally and gradually start to lose the will, uh, [laughs] to perform as the kind of tour goes on.
Mm-hmm.
So doing this in a slower way, it was very refreshing, and it wasn't, it didn't feel so much like I was going into the deep end of something, of, like, you're committing to touring something for six months to a year, and it's constant, and it's, it's tiring.
It was a bit more like, okay, like Isaac said, you can get your suitcase and hop on a train, and you can go somewhere, which was really exciting, although I was expecting a party bus, and I was expecting pizza.
[laughs]
So I'd love to know from both of you about, about your experience touring, if you had any experience touring, and if you didn't, if you had any, like, preconceived assumptions about what touring was going to be like.
I thought it was the kind of thing that you do when you're like, you know, the national company of Les Mis [laughs] that you tour.
Yeah.
Stuff that I'd done that it was even close to touring was more, like, packing up a show into a suitcase and taking it for one show at a, at a venue in London, for instance.
And, and something that really drew me to this was that, um, it is both the real thing, it's a real tour, and also it is getting on a train with a suitcase.
Um, and I'd never really thought about that being not only a model for touring, but also something that is really, like, environmentally conscious and something that actually-
Mm
... really works and that gets work to places that isn't necessarily, you know, other towns, other locations.
My sort of personal, uh, experience of touring has been, I had a play Pie, Pint on, and we performed in Oran Mor in Glasgow, and then we went to Aberdeen.
And that was it, and it was [laughs] I wasn't even there to do anything, just to kind of make sure the, I don't know, rails didn't come off the text or something.
[laughs]
Working at a theater that takes quite big, uh, national touring productions, I only had an, a conception of touring which was about long runs that are kind of going over a year, and it's a bit monotonous, and you sort of see the cast generally and gradually start to lose the will, uh, [laughs] to perform as the kind of tour goes on.
Mm-hmm.
So doing this in a slower way, it was very refreshing, and it wasn't, it didn't feel so much like I was going into the deep end of something, of, like, you're committing to touring something for six months to a year, and it's constant, and it's, it's tiring.
It was a bit more like, okay, like Isaac said, you can get your suitcase and hop on a train, and you can go somewhere, which was really exciting, although I was expecting a party bus, and I was expecting pizza.
[laughs]
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