Welcome to Represent, the queer musical theatre podcast. My name is Dr James Lovelock, and I’m an academic and a huge musical theatre fan exploring the representation of all things queer in the musical theatre industry.

My guests today are the extraordinary writer Chris Bush and the fabulous actor and workshop queen Beth Hinton-Lever. Beth recently appeared in Chris’ play Otherland at the Almeida Theatre, which follows the post break-up relationship between Harry, who has recently come out as a trans woman, and Jo, who is preparing to be a mother. We talk about trans, queer and disability representation as well as exploring Chris’ beautiful musical Standing At The Sky’s Edge, Beth’s West End debut in Hadestown and an epic community musical called The Doncastrian Chalk Circle.

Links

Chris Bush's instagram

Beth Hinton-Lever's instagram

James Lovelock's instagram

Standing at the Sky's Edge website

Buy the Standing at the Sky's Edge script from Nick Hern Books

'As the Dawn Breaks' and 'Tonight the Streets Are Ours' from Standing At The Sky's Edge (press preview)

Listen to the Standing at the Sky's Edge soundtrack on Spotify or Apple Music

Otherland website

Buy the Otherland script from Nick Hern Books

The Doncastrian Chalk Circle website

Other new LGBTQ+ theatre / musical theatre discussed in this episode

After the Act website

Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2018 production of Oklahoma! - website

One of Them Ones website

One of Them Ones script