Following on from their double-bill of Different Sand & Willow at the Bunker Theatre, Lemon House Theatre are hosting Lemon Lounge, a new six-part series of talks where they chat to Queer artists and artists from the MENA diaspora about their experiences in theatre.
Presented by Lemon House Theatre’s Co-Artistic Directors Jennifer Cerys and Samia Djilli, each episode will involve them chatting to different artists about finding their community in theatre, and telling the stories that are too often missing from our stages.
These talks are taking place as part of St. Margaret’s House’s REACH Online project to support the development of Lemon House Theatre’s plays Willow and an upcoming untitled project. Alongside these talks, you’ll hear extracts from these works-in-progress, which are responding to the kind of questions raised by the artists in each episode.
The guests for the first part of the series are performers Jennifer Dixon, Teddy Lamb, Sophia O’Donohue, directors Hannah Hauer-King and Sita Thomas, and producers Daisy Hale and Salome Wagaine. It will cover topics such as the future of queer theatre and why queer characters are often experiencing trauma.
The second part of the series will explore the visibility of MENA artists on stages in the UK, and will include conversations with directors Janisè Sadik and Layla Madanat, and actors Iman Boujel and Roann McCloskey.
The first episode of Lemon Lounge was released on 9 July, and episodes will be released weekly until 20 August (including a one-week break on 30 July).
These episodes are free to listen to, due to the support of the arts charity St. Margaret’s House. More details on their REACH Online project can be found here.
