“Matching Energy” w/ the cast & crew of Permission (The Play)

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Firstly, I am on a hunt for a new Chai recipe so erm please can you slide into the DM's and let me know of any new recipe's and flavours to try.

Secondly! What a joy to get to talk with the cast & crew from the play "Permission" at The Space in London. We discussed all things representation, ACE Funding, reflections on the play and its content but also the approach to writing and acting - as well team work.

A lot of nuggets in this one and a massive thank you to Hunia Chawla, Anisa Butt and Rea Malhotra Mukhtyar.

Topics Breakdown:

• Can you Improv tho (Warm up games set to short timers).
• How was the process? How you feel that its over? What is th next life for the project?
• Discussing what changed from its first moment at Camdens People Theatre to the last iteration at The Space?
• Handling the conversation in the room and balance of roles/ voice.
• Discussing the feminine voice of the piece.
• Thoughts or advice on collating a team for projects that are close to the creatives experience.
• ACE Funding and market strategies.
• Getting into the world of the play.
• A tip on being financial savvy?
• Go back to any role or project what would it be and why? And if you were asked to do a part 2/ expansion of it- input.
• A great thing about being an artist in today’s social, cultural and economical and a challenging thing about it?
• Getting into the role- auditioning or when you have booked the job? And how to let go or sepearate yourself from it?
• A thing you would like someone to take away with them having met you for a brief second or known you for a long time?
• Your Favourite thing about yourself either as a creative or person and something you feel is a challenge and are working on?
• A thing you would like to impart somebody but you never got told ?
• Words to your mirror self today?
• A thing the creative culture could do with and or without?
• An artist you really admire their journey or would suggest in checking out their work ?
• What the Chai- 30 second rant about anything and everything however you must start or end your rant with the phrase "What the Chai?"
• Joyfulness- What's one thing that makes you joyful and whats one thing he does for others that makes them feel joyful.
• 3 words ( one word for each of the questions asked) A word an artist should be, A word to describe what an artist should never compromise on and a feeling an artist should impart on someone always.

Note: Artists mentioned in this episode are: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Michaela Coel and Frankie Thompson.

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