Back to a classic episode this week where Jake and Caleb are joined by Sally Garner-Gibbons to stage the 1984 family classic The Never Ending Story. We discuss outdoor promenade theatre, puppetry, old people moaning about kids not reading, and more! Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our adaptation. Hit us up on our socials, or email us: Twitter/Instagram: @maybeulikeit Facebook: @maybeyoulikeit Email: [email protected] Caleb is...

This week, Jake and Caleb are adapting an anecdote that Caleb heard from a guy that heard from a guy that his dad knew about a guy that they used to go drinking with. We talk adapting real life stories, the effect of degrees of separation on the way we tell stories, and why there is a man with the name Twix. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our adaptation. Hit us up on our socials, or email...

We're back! Jake and Caleb are bringing the podcast back and as well as all our usual hijinks of bringing films and more to the stage, we're going broader. Any media or story of any kind being adapted into any kind of storytelling we choose. We're talking video games into community theatre; anecdotes from the pub into video web series; and twitter threads into board games. Get subscribed so you don't miss out! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jake and Caleb are enjoying a drink at the Maybe You Like It Christmas party instead of a podcast episode this week. Virtually everyone has made it along to celebrate. As long as Elspeth doesn't interrupt us with news of a big name producer that wants us to pitch a stage adaptation of Home Alone to them, we should have a nice, relaxing evening... We're going to be taking a few weeks off before returning to weekly podcasts in 2022. Thanks for listening this year and thank you to all our guests...

This week, Jake's zoom drops out during recording so Caleb decides to run through his top 5 ideas from the podcast this year. Or at the very least, these are 5 ideas he remembers. We've had an awesome year making the podcast and we have to thank all the incredible guests that have joined us throughout the year. Thank you too for listening each week. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our staging. Let us know what your favourite ideas from...

This week, Jake and Caleb are staging a radio play! John Finnermore's Double Acts are short comedy-drama two-handers written for Radio Four. Penguin Diplomacy, the story of a British and Danish diplomatic forming a bond as they argue the toss over a small island in the South Pacific, is the focus of this episode. We blast through everything from casting to costume to lighting to rewriting as we swiftly stage this neat two-hander. Listen to the radio play here. Don't forget to rate the podcast...

This week, our favourite guest (ranked by number of appearances) Elspeth Barron brings us the first episode of anthology series Modern Love, based on the NYT column of the same name. We talk about the idea of 'B movies' and how they can translate to theatre, how to jump through time, and the power of entrances and exits in theatrical spaces. We come up with converyer belts, revolving doors on a revlove, and much much more! Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have...

To celebrate our 42nd episode, this one is just Jake and Caleb chatting about staging another episode of Inside No. 9. Conversation ranges from lunchtime theatre to the progression of comedy to creative uses of curtains in spaces that really aren't built for them. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our staging. Hit us up on our socials, or email...

This week, our esteemed guest (director, dramaturg and facilitator) Bobby Brook brings us a play. We tackle Rossum's Universal Robots, a title that used the word robot for the first ever time, and talk about finding the ripe and present themes in a 100-year-old text. In fact, we talk text a lot. We also chat a little about setting, sound, farce, and moving walls. You can find Bobby on Instagram @bobskibee. I can't figure out how to link a pdf into this description so if you want to read the...

This week, Caleb and Jake are in person once again and we're joined by Director Max Lindsay to stage the now all- star Drop Dead Gorgeous... and it's a musical! Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our staging. Hit us up on our socials, or email us: Twitter/Instagram: @maybeulikeit Facebook: @maybeyoulikeit Email: [email protected] Caleb is on twitter, instagram and letterboxd @caleblebster Jake is on letterboxd @jakereesh,...

For our fourth and final spooky Spooktoberfest episode, we're joined IN PERSON (much to the detriment of the audio quality) by Barney Newman to stage the Disney Original Halloweentown. Well I say stage... it becomes more of an immersive experience slash club night with Halloweentown themes... strap in for a very very silly one. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our staging. Hit us up on our socials, or email...

For our third instalment of Spooktoberfest, we're joined by Will Foxton to stage the iconic Aussie horror flick The Babadook. We discuss how much this film scared Caleb; the lasting impact of the Babadook as a gay icon; and how to genuinely make the most of this beautiful story about grief as we bring it into a theatrical space. We also tackle the logistical challenge of a young boy being thrown around the stage and a small dog that has to be murdered every night. Find Will Foxton on...

This week we're joined by actor and puppeteer Fred Davis to discuss the British cult-classic Shaun of the Dead. We deconstruct the first of the Cornetto Trilogy turning it from a zombie-movie-pastiche into a meta-play about grief and remembering loved ones. Safe to say, we didn't even try to stay on the rails with this one. Find Fred Davis is on twitter and instagram. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our staging. Hit us up on our...

We are back and it's Spooktoberfest! For our first spoooooky episode we're joined by Dan Dawes, artistic director of Idle Discourse to discuss the iconic Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Dan brings us four entirely different ideas at completely different scales and Jake insists on finding a way to mash them all together. It just about works! Find Dan Dawes and Idle Discourse on twitter. Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any thoughts about our...

2 WEEKS UNTIL PLEADING STUPIDITY IN LONDON. TICKETS: www.maybeyoulikeit.co.uk You're gonna want to stick around to the end of this one. This week we're joined by designer and law extrodinaire Rhiannon Ogden-Jones to stage our first Hanksisode: Sully: The Miracle on The Hudson. We talk stagings big and small, and how to deal with a plot that repeats itself. Bonus content at the end of the episode where we hear about Rhi's TWO emergencies on planes... Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and...

BUY TICKETS TO PLEADING STUPIDTY HERE. This week we're joined by Writer and Director James Nash to stage the "found-footage" sci-fi cult classic Cloverfield. We ask some big questions: what does it mean to create "found-footage" theatre? How do you put a giant monster on stage? Would Adam Curtis be willing to get involved? And we basically come up with an answer for all of them. James is on Twitter @jmsnsh Radio Elusia is on Twitter @radioelusia You can listen to Radio Elusia wherever you...

This week we are joined by Tom Ryalls for Epilepsy Awareness Week and we discuss staging our first ever novel on the pod! We talk about adapting Phil Stamper's debut novel 'The Gravity of Us' into a big, loud, fun musical. We get into design, song writing, storytelling through musicals, and we discuss how to make theatre accessible for people with epilepsy. Tom's show 'Can You See Into A Black Hole?' is part of the Iris Summer Festival from June 28th to July 3rd. You can buy tickets here....

This week we're joined by actor, member of sketch comedy group Quirks and Foibles, and recently announced host of the Chichester Free Fringe, Katie Bennett! And it's a doozie, because we discuss staging Inside No. 9 Episode 'The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge'! We wax lyrical about the show we're all huge fans of, talk about how we'd stage the series in general, and then dive into the episode, in which two of England's most notorious and feared witch-finders are summoned by Sir Andrew Pike to the...

This week we're joined by fellow podcasters Nancy Netherwood and Sam Webber from the Play Ground Theatre Podcast to discuss staging The Wicker Man (1973). Things get weird as we take on this folk-horror-musical-cult-classic that stars Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland. The film follows puritan Police Sergeant Howie from mainland Scotland as he arrives on a strange island to investigate the disappearance, and possible murder, of a young girl. It's May Day on this pagan isle and...

Our second Black Mirror episode! We're joined by producer Gregor Weir to chat staging the choose-your-own-Netflix-adventure-TV-Event for a couple of years ago. We chat chosing mechanics, multi-rolling casts, satisfying the audience, Derren Brown, and bringing out themes. Follow along with a flowchart of the options in Bandersnatch here. Gregor is on Twitter @weir_gregor Follow the VR show he talks about @livetotellshow Don't forget to rate the podcast in app and get in contact if you have any...

This week we're joined by host of the podcast 'I Saw That Years Ago', Martyn Darkly to stage the original blockbuster, Steven Spielberg's iconic Jaws. We discuss Jaws as action-theatre, ballet, and even a drive-in cinema on the side of a cliff only accessible by boat that could tangentially be called theatre if you really wanted it to. You can listen to I Saw That Years Ago here or wherever you get your podcasts. They are also on Twitter @istyashow. Martin is on Twitter @martyndarkly. Don't...

Midnight in Paris: The Musical! This week we're joined by our first married couple, Producer Radha Mamidipudi and Musical Director and Composer Alex Beetschen to chat about the Owen Wilson vehicle Midnight in Paris. The film follows a successful screenwriter trying to make the change to novelist as he enjoys a break in Paris with his fiancée and her disapproving parents. He dreams of Paris in the 1920s until, by a bizarre stroke of luck, he is transported there each night to meet his literary...

It's a crazy genre mash!! With Harrison Gale! This week we're joined by our regular collaborator Harrison Gale to discuss the 2004 Heist Film Ocean's Twelve. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, it is the second installment of the Ocean's franchise and the sequel to Ocean's Eleven (2001). The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy García, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, and Bernie Mac. We decide the film can't realy be staged so we...

This week we're joined by director Issy Paul to discuss the 2005 family comedy fantasy Nanny McPhee. Written by Emma Thompson, Nanny McPhee is based on the Nurse Matilda books and follows Mr Brown (Colin Firth) as he struggles to find a nanny with the stamina to handle all seven of his naughty children. Shrouded in magic and mystery, Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) arrives to teach the children five lessons, and perhaps the adults a thing or two along the way. You can find Issy on...