Everyday Forum Podcast
A new podcast highlighting the best of thought-provoking events with celebrated guest speakers recorded live from the Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum. With in-depth introductions by Festival actors Beck Lloyd and Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, each episode expands on popular narrative themes in theatre to magnify and examine how the staging of a play or musical, regardless of its origin era, is a reflection of modern society.
Support for The Meighen Forum is generously provided by Kelly & Michael Meighen and the T.R. Meighen Family Foundation.
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E10: The Process of a Playwright | Everyday Forum Podcast
As performers, Hosts Beck Lloyd and Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah recollect their memories of working with writers as a direct link to the Holy Grail. They describe it as standing on grandma's stool, watching all the ingredients used in the story. In this finale of Everyday Forum Podcast, we explore...
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E09: Artivism: Art as an Agent for Change | Everyday Forum Podcast
Traditionally, art and artists have walked a fine line between art and politics, often blurring the boundaries to make a point. In the 21st Century, Artivism is taking centre stage as a platform for Artists from all disciplines to make a statement and advocate for change, oftentimes through messa...
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E08: A Thousand Small Sanities: Adam Gopnik with Justice Rosalie Abella
Hosts Beck Lloyd and Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah invite you to this heightened academic conversation filled with love and mutual admiration. The incomparable and inspiring Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella sits down with award-winning writer and essayist Adam Gopnik to discuss his new book, A Th...
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E07: Stepping Out of the Shadow: Ukraine Known on Its Own Terms
War. Witness. Heroic resistance. From the early 20th century to today, Ukrainian playwrights have epitomized their fellow compatriots' distinct grit, humour and imagination through challenging and troubling times.
Curator Andrew Kushnir leads a dialogue with Mariya Khomutova, Marko Robert Stech,...
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E06: On Adaptation: Margaret Atwood with Emma Donoghue | Everyday Forum Podcast
Join our Forum audiences for another exciting episode hosted by Beck Lloyd and Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah. Listen as the hosts bond over their mutual affection for author Margaret Atwood and discuss the way hearing the conversation between Atwood and Donoghue has widened their understanding of the...
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E05: The Art of Translation | Everyday Forum Podcast
Hosts Beck Lloyd and Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah start the episode by conversing about the delicate difference between translation and interpretation.
Listen as Canadian dramaturge and literary translator, Linda Gaboriau, along with the experienced team of translators and playwrights currently de... -
E04: On Gothic Literature: Margaret Atwood with Mona Awad and Naomi Alderman
There is a thin line between horror and farce when writing eerie narratives suggest hosts Beck Lloyd and Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah.
In this week’s episode of Everyday Forum, Canadian icon Margaret Atwood speaks with award-winning author Mona Awad (Bunny and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl) and N... -
E03: In Conversation with Dr. Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ | Everyday Forum Podcast
Leaving October 20.
Hosts Beck Llyod and Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah share their experience working in theatre, commenting on the richness of the African language and literature. In spite of the wealth of stories, there is little incentive for translation into the English language, only the complic... -
E02: Queer History in Canada | Everyday Forum Podcast
Leaving October 13.
Podcast hosts Beck Lloyd and Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah prepare you for this intense and exciting conversation about "Queer History in Canada." As they say, there are lessons to be learned and reminders that need to be reinvigorated; through this episode we traverse the multitu... -
E01: Sex and Shakespeare | Everyday Forum Podcast
Leaving October 08.
Let's talk about SEX.
Long before Playboy and OnlyFans, Shakespeare knew that sex sells. His works have titillated audiences and academics for centuries. In the first episode of Everyday Forum Podcast, hosts Beck Lloyd and Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah introduce "Sex and Shakespea...