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 discussoutdoor promenade theatre, puppetry, old people moaning about kids not reading, and m

A Man Named Twix

May 10th, 2022 53m 48s

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 th

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Maybe You Like... A Reboot?

May 5th, 2022 5m 8s

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

Home Alone - Christmas Special

Dec 23rd, 2021 1h 46m

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 tha

Top 5 Ideas of 2021

Dec 17th, 2021 31m 47s

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

John Finnermore's Double Acts: Penguin Diplomacy

Dec 9th, 2021 36m 27s

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 o

Modern Love: When The Doorman Is Your Main Man (S1E1)

Dec 2nd, 2021 56m 4s

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 transla

Inside No. 9: Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room

Nov 25th, 2021 54m 48s

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 ar

Karel Čapek's Rossum's Universal Robots

Nov 18th, 2021 1h 25m

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

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Nov 12th, 2021 1h 14m

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

Halloweentown

Oct 28th, 2021 49m 7s

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 experie

The Babadook

Oct 21st, 2021 1h 6m

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 mak

Shaun of the Dead

Oct 14th, 2021 53m

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 rememberin

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Oct 7th, 2021 1h

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 a

Sully

Jul 20th, 2021 1h 6m

2 WEEKS UNTIL PLEADING STUPIDITY IN LONDON. TICKETS: www.maybeyoulikeit.co.ukYou'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: S

Cloverfield

Jun 28th, 2021 1h 7m

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

The Gravity of Us

May 24th, 2021 1h 5m

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, s

Inside No.9: The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge

May 18th, 2021 1h 2m

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 Elizab

The Wicker Man (1973)

Apr 27th, 2021 1h

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 Wo

Black Mirror's Bandersnatch

Apr 17th, 2021 1h 16m

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 Brow

Jaws

Apr 5th, 2021 1h 15m

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

Midnight in Paris

Mar 30th, 2021 57m 38s

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

Ocean's Twelve

Mar 20th, 2021 1h 24m

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 an

Nanny McPhee

Mar 9th, 2021 1h 18m

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 w

The Others (2001) with Matt Hassall

Mar 2nd, 2021 1h 6m

The Haunted House where you do the Haunting??This week, we're joined by a director whose credits have taken him from the Royal Exchange, to The Old Vic, the Almedia, Southwark Playhouse and Lamda this week to discuss staging 2001 Horror Film Th