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Robert Softley Gale

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Robert Softley

In this episode of Live and Now, Steve talks with Robert Softley Gale about his solo show If These Spasms Could Speak, making My Left / Right Foot – The Musical for National Theatre of Scotland – and the pragmatics of taking ‘experimental’ work to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Robert’s prolific career calls attention to the specific circumstances in which live art and new performance becomes possible – as well as the potential for such work to cross over into mainstream spaces in ways that challenge any neat distinction between ‘fringe’ and not. In framing the chat, Steve also offers a pocket history of The Arches (a major Glasgow performance and club venue forced to close in 2015) as a space straddling those worlds – and whose absence raises persistent questions about the conditions of possibility for experimental practices and creative risk in Scotland. Episode transcript Full interview Contexts and documents: Birds of Paradise Theatre CompanyDocumentation of If These Spasms Could Speak, performed at the Going Solo International Theatre Festival, Mumbai, in 2015.A Conversation With Robert Softley Gale – Disability Arts OnlineMy Left / Right Foot – The Musical for National Theatre ScotlandDISCOURSE OR INTERCOURSE / TALKING &amp; F*CKING (2017) at Arika, Episode 9: Other Worlds Already ExistKirstin Innes and David Bratchpiece’s Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches (2021)‘The Right To Fail: Remembering Glasgow Venue The Arches’ – The QuietusTake Me Somewhere, the international biennial festival and year-round sector support organisation that exists to position Scotland as the place to create and see radical performance, created to build on the legacy of The Arches

In this episode of Live and Now, Steve talks with Robert Softley Gale about his solo show If These Spasms Could Speak, making My Left / Right Foot – The Musical for National Theatre of Scotland – and the pragmatics of taking ‘experimental’ work to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Robert’s prolific career calls attention to the specific circumstances in which live art and new performance becomes possible – as well as the potential for such work to cross over into mainstream spaces in ways that challenge any neat distinction between ‘fringe’ and not. In framing the chat, Steve also offers a pocket history of The Arches (a major Glasgow performance and club venue forced to close in 2015) as a space straddling those worlds – and whose absence raises persistent questions about the conditions of possibility for experimental practices and creative risk in Scotland. <a href="https://liveartscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/Live-and-Now-Robert-Softley-Gale-episode-transcript.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode transcript</a> <a href="https://liveartscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/Robert-Softley-Gale-Live-Art-in-Scotland.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full interview</a> Contexts and documents: <ul><li><a href="https://www.boptheatre.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Birds of Paradise Theatre Company</a></li><li>Documentation of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dClrmNr7zRE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If These Spasms Could Speak</a>, performed at the Going Solo International Theatre Festival, Mumbai, in 2015.</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmScNK9lKkw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Conversation With Robert Softley Gal</a>e – Disability Arts Online</li><li><a href="https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/past-performances/my-left-right-foot-the-musical" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Left / Right Foot – The Musical</a> for National Theatre Scotland</li><li><a href="https://arika.org.uk/discourse-or-intercourse-one-one/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DISCOURSE OR INTERCOURSE / TALKING &amp; F*CKING</a> (2017) at Arika, Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist</li><li>Kirstin Innes and David Bratchpiece’s <a>Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches</a> (2021)</li><li>‘The Right To Fail: Remembering Glasgow Venue The Arches’ – <a href="https://thequietus.com/articles/30889-david-bratchpiece-kirstin-innes-interview-brickwork-a-biography-of-the-arches" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Quietus</a></li><li><a href="https://takemesomewhere.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Take Me Somewhere</a>, the international biennial festival and year-round sector support organisation that exists to position Scotland as the place to create and see radical performance, created to build on the legacy of The Arches</li></ul>

Live and Now: Robert Softley Gale

This month Joe Turnbull, assistant editor of Disability Arts Online chats with Robert Softley Gale, writer, actor, activist, and Artistic Director of Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, about Disability And...the Mainstream. This podcast contains strong language.

16. Disability And...The Mainstream with Robert Softley Gale