Maxine Peake

Jonny’s guest this week is the actor, theatre maker, political activist and Bolton royalty- Maxine Peake. Two weeks into devising her new theatre piece, Robin/Red/Breast, Maxine gave up a lunch hour to talk about the goddess MAAT, playing legendary singer Nico, walking audience members round the block while they processed what they’d seen, the loneliness of one-person shows, audience interruptions while performing Beckett (including the hazards of letting children kick a ball against Winnie’s mound), Ray Winstone’s mate who didn’t fancy watching the play, playing her famous Hamlet, her twenty year collaboration with director Sarah Franckom, not being “wired right” as a hyper empath, escaped cavalry horses and how everything is political. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.