The Evening Standard Theater Podcast |  Sophie Okonedo in Medea, Beverley Knight in Sylvia, plus Grenfell: System Failure interview

The Evening Standard Theater Podcast | Sophie Okonedo in Medea, Beverley Knight in Sylvia, plus Grenfell: System Failure interview

Welcome to The Evening Standard Theater Podcast.

This week we review Sophie Okonedo‘s phenomenal performance Medeawith award-winning playwright and theater critic Farah Najib.

We’ll also be joined by Nicolas Kent and Richard Norton-Taylor on Grenfell: System Failure, their powerful piece of verbatim theater drawn from the public inquiry into the 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster.

In addition, Nick Clark and Nick Curtis discuss Sylvia, a hip-hop musical about the Suffragette movement, starring Beverly Knight and Sharon Rose.

Part one: Medea

Part Two: Grenfell: System Failure (10’06 min)

Interview with Nicolas Kent and Richard Norton-Taylor

Part Three: Sylvia (17’42mins)

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