Review

Podcasts: Evolution Festival 2019

Personable and warm, these podcasts invite the curious into an inviting – and bitesize – corner of theatre.
 The Evolution Festival's marketing image
The Evolution Festival's marketing image

The world may be saturated with podcasts but I will always be eager for more – particularly when they concern the world of theatre. This three-episode series, an accompaniment to Lyric Hammersmith's 2019 Evolution festival, is no exception. This year, the festival was all about women – giving them space to conduct their voices, and the series delves right into the nitty gritty.

Without revealing too much about the content – I do believe you should listen to each episode – they are nuanced and balanced. The host, Young Lyric assistant Alisha Artry, is personable and inviting.

The production quality is not fantastic; some dialogue is lost to the background music, and Artry doesn't introduce herself in any of the episodes – she only mentions her name at the end. But these things don't necessarily matter; it is not, after all, supposed to be a streamlined product to rival Apple chart-toppers, but rather an open discussion about something you might not have considered.

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