The Shotput Podcast

Shotput’s artistic directors Lucy and Jim talk to Glasgow-based actor, writer, and filmmaker Adura Onashile. They talk about visual storytelling, the pressure to give characters redemption, how collaboration works differently in theatre and film, Western story structure, moral complexity, what we can all learn from Medea, and lots more.

This discussion was recorded in Glasgow on 19 September 2022.

Lucy and Jim talk to Anna Clifford and Omari ‘Motion’ Carter of The Motion Dance Collective, a screendance production company based in London. 

This discussion was recorded remotely on 25 August 2022.

Shotput’s artistic directors Jim and Lucy talk with video designer Rob Willoughby. Rob is working on the current tour of Ferguson and Barton and is an artistic associate with Shotput. Rob is based in Glasgow, and he also works as a sound designer, filmmaker, and director. 

This discussion was recorded in Glasgow on 15 August 2022.

Shotput is a dance-theatre company based in Glasgow. We make live work about contemporary life with athleticism, humour, and a healthy sense of the absurd. 

We also like to talk! Each live project that we make involves a lot of talking with people from different fields. In ‘The Shotput Podcast’, we open up these conversations to our audience.

This first 3-part series accompanies the Scottish tour of Shotput’s live show, ‘Ferguson and Barton’. That show was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s film, ‘Vertigo’. Live camera work plays a large role in the performance, and the shows asks questions about how cinema shapes our lives and relationships. Therefore, this first series is all about film.