Podcast: Two Fingers To Brexit, We’re All Europeans

Amy Clare Tasker & Katharina Reinthaller discuss Voila! Festival

Voila! Festival has grown from its humble beginnings back in 2012 when it was a French and English bilingual festival held just at The Cockpit. As a response to Brexit, it initially expanded its remit to include all European languages across three venues.

But after a year off in 2023 to reset, it’s back even bigger and even stronger, now finding itself across nine different venues across London with a whole host of nationalities and languages involved.

So it seemed a good time to two of the festival’s Artistic Directors, Amy Clare Tasker & Katharina Reinthaller, along to tell us more about it.

We discuss what the festival is all about, a little history, why Brexit made them even more determined to bring a touch of Europe to London, and we push them to name a few of their favourite shows.

Voila! plays from 4 – 24 November at venues spread across London. You can find a list of venues along with all the available shows on their website ⁠here⁠.