LUCY EATON, STAR OF BBC1’S ‘STAGED’ LAUNCHES NEW THEATRE PODCAST ‘HEAR ME OUT’.
THE FIRST FOUR EPISODES WITH GUESTS MARK BONNAR, DENISE GOUGH, ADRIAN LESTER AND CLAIRE SKINNER ARE AVAILABLE TO LISTEN TO NOW ON ALL MAJOR STREAMING PLATFORMS.
NEW EPISODES WILL BE RELEASED EVERY TUESDAY FROM 30 MARCH WITH GUESTS INCLUDING BRENDAN COYLE, FREDDIE FOX, PATRICIA HODGE, MADDY HILL AND GILES TERERA
Hear Me Out is abrand-new podcast from actor and producer Lucy Eaton, most recently seen on TV screens starring alongside David Tennant, Michael Sheen, and her brother Simon Evans in BBC1’s Staged. The first four episodes are now available to listen to with guests Mark Bonnar, Denise Gough, Adrian Lester, and Claire Skinner. A new episode will then be released each Tuesday from 30 March onwards with future guests including Brendan Coyle, Freddie Fox, Patricia Hodge, Maddy Hill, and Giles Terera. Hear Me Out is available to listen to on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor.com, and all major streaming platforms. Filmed clips from the episodes can also be found on YouTube @PodHearMeOut.
Hear Me Out puts the audience back in the stalls or, closer still, the rehearsal room. Creeping further into 2021, many have endured twelve months without a curtain going up. This new podcast invites theatre-loving audiences to re-connect with theatre-makers in a unique celebration of language and performance.
Hosted by Lucy Eaton, Hear Me Out is the insider chat that audiences would love to have, with the stars of some of the country’s finest productions. The format is simple: Lucy asks ‘What is your favourite speech?’’ From the brilliance of the language to the personal anecdotes behind the choice, it’s part Desert Island Discs, part literary analysis and part post-show chat in the theatre bar. Behind the world’s most beautiful words are tales of fake-blood-in-the-eye, audience interruptions and corset-bruises.
Kicking off the first series hear Claire Skinner discuss Moonlight by Harold Pinter, Adrian Lester on Cost of Living by Martyna Majok, Denise Gough on People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan, and Mark Bonnar on Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Lucy’s first podcast ‘The Thing About That’, co-hosted with Rebecca Bright and Hermione Allen, explored the challenging everyday expectations of modern life. The first series tackled the weird and wonderful world of modern weddings, weaving together personal experiences and thought-provoking discussion with tips and tricks of how to navigate age-old, and sometimes outdated, traditions.
Lucy Eaton said:
“It’s obviously been a tough year for everyone in the theatre industry. As any actor will tell you, our job is so much more than the sum of its (occasional) pay-checks. However, in late autumn of last year I made a surprising revelation: the thing I was really missing with every fibre of my body wasn’t actually being in a theatre, it was being in a rehearsal room. I missed coming together with fellow actors and creatives, sitting around a table and doing a deep-dive into a play; I missed bonding over tea and biscuits in the green room and talking of past shows, ones you were in and ones you saw; I missed watching and observing people I admired, as they figured out how to crack a tough role.
It occurred to me that this most treasured of times is something that most theatre lovers never get to experience and that, even if I couldn’t put us all in a rehearsal room yet, I could simulate the next best thing: I could rope in some pretty stupendous actors to talk about their processes and memories with reference to one particular speech, their favourite speech. And that’s how ‘Hear Me Out’ was born. Every single conversation has been thrilling and informative beyond my wildest expectations and I hope they prove the same for my listeners.”
Claire Skinner said
”Lucy’s podcast is relaxed and inquisitive and not unlike those lovely moments in rehearsal rooms that we are all missing so much right now.”
Mark Bonnar said:
“I think ‘Hear Me Out’ will bring something entirely new and novel to the podcast landscape; not just for those of us who love and dearly miss theatre, but also for those who are curious to have an insight into the way we work and what we love about our job.”
Lucy Eaton most recently starred alongside David Tennant and Michael Sheen in BBC1’s Staged. The second series premiered on Hulu in the US last week. Lucy’s theatre credits include The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Trafalgar Studios), The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse) and Khadija is 18 (Finborough Theatre). Other TV credits include being a guest lead in Netflix US’ Murder Maps. Alongside her acting, Lucy runs Go People, a production company specialising in uplifting escapism on an intimate scale. Previous credits include: the UK premiere of US smash hit Almost, Maine by John Cariani; Daisy Pulls it Off dir. Paulette Randall MBE; and the joyful 7-actor A Midsummer Night’s Dream dir. Simon Evans. She is also Founding Director of Revels in Hand, an internationally renowned luxury events service that offers world class theatre productions in clients’ private homes. Revels in Hand has been featured in Tatler, The Guardian, Forbes, The Telegraph and Vogue.