The Show People Podcast is back and in this episode host Andrew Keates is joined by writer and musician Kurt Kansley.
Kurt was born in Cape Town, South Africa and due to apartheid fled to Australia with his family. He’s had a career that’s taken him all over the world playing roles in Ragtime, Show Boat, Evita, Naked Boys Singing and later would find himself becoming a British citizen when he joined the West End production of The Lion King and go on to other productions including Miss Saigon, Hair and Sweet Bird Of Youth (to name but a few).
Kurt shares with Andrew Keates the difficulties he’s faced thanks to his ethnicity, what an international life as a performer has been like as well as his journey in the performing arts and his cherished writing partnership with Oliver Lidert.
Dramatic News:
Andrew covers the latest dramatic news and performing arts stories.
The Platform:
We hear a song written by Kansley and Lidert. And of course we have a little silliness along the way too.
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Twitter: Andrew Keates: @AndrewKeates, The Show People Podcast: @ShowPeopleUK, Arion Productions: @ArionProds, Kurt Kansley: @kurtakansley and use #ShowPeoplePodcast.
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E-mail: info@arion-productions.com
Links:
Kansley and Lidert: http://kansleyandlidert.com/
Is That OK (this Christmas) by Kansley & Lidert performed by Cedric Neal (all proceeds go to TheatreMAD): https://music.apple.com/gb/album/is-that-ok-single/1447041539
The Artist’s Way: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Artists-Way-Discovering-Recovering-Creative/dp/1509829474/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=the+artists+way&qid=1576459964&sprefix=the+artists&sr=8-1
Show People Photography by Scott Rylander: www.scottrylander.com
Andrew Keates’ Website: www.andrewkeates.co.uk
Arion Productions: www.arion-productions.com
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Andrew was the theatre manager and artistic consultant of the Landor Theatre for over three years. He is the current artistic director of Arion Productions, through which he launched the Show People Podcast in 2017. The free bi-weekly podcast shines a spotlight on the UK performing arts industry and to those dedicated to their craft within it. It's on Twitter at @ShowPeopleUK. In addition, Andrew tweets at @andrewkeates and his personal website is www.andrewkeates.co.uk.
