Adrian Lester

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494 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · More Rosebud - Adrian Lester · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

At the Youth Theatre.

My gosh, you were really committed.

You'd written a play.

What was the theme of this play?

The theme of the play, it was one of my cousins had unfortunately, he'd slipped through a couple of cracks in care and ended up having to sleep rough for a few nights.

um so i wrote a play i started to look at it and i wrote a play about um a woman who fostered three kids in the transition for them being sort of 15 16 17 until they were adults and you managed to get this put on a new tour the youth the youth theater did it it was uh uh one set you know um three locations it was just in her house

and it was just about the kids talking to each other, and the Youth Theatre helped me develop it.

I improvised a lot with my fellow actors, and I noted down the good moments, the good moments of tension and so on, and added a bit of a Michael-y on it, and then I went away and wrote the play, and it was called And Three's a Crowd, and we did it in the Hexagon Theatre then, at the Midlands Arts Centre,

And then the Youth Theatre and the Arts Centre helped contact other venues that could take the play.

And yeah, we did it at two or three other venues in Birmingham.

Well, so I sit in front of you as a divorced man of 57 who has grown children and

as he said, palm to sky.

I have to say that I'm just, I'm still learning.

Yes, yes.

And thank you for what you said.

For me, the journey is about acknowledging how vulnerable characters have to be.

And you as a person have to be in the middle of loving someone.

And I think that what I've seen...

in the work that I've done is I've seen parts, great writers pick apart that feeling of vulnerability and risk and all the emotions that rise from it.

Are these characters that are desperately trying to speak to another person in the same language.

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