INTERVIEW: RICHARD McCABE The Olivier winning actor talks to Heather Neill about playing Harold Wilson in The Audience, Peter Morgan’s superb new play about the Queen’s audiences with her Prime Ministers (Gielgud Theatre), and which stars Helen Mirren as Her Majesty.
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Blanche McIntyre gives a director’s-eye-view of The Seagull
INTERVIEW: BLANCHE MCINTYRE The director of John Donnelly’s radical new version of The Seagull, for Headlong and The Nuffield Southampton, talks to Judi Herman about her extraordinary staging, with designer Laura Hopkins, of Chekov’s great exploration of artistic creativity, unrequited love and the clashes between the generations.
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Julia Pascal and Ailin Conant: war crimes, guilt and trauma in Nineveh
INTERVIEW: JULIA PASCAL and AILIN CONANT The writer and director of Nineveh (Riverside Studios) talk to Judi Herman about Theatre Témoin’s powerful play, born of Conant’s year speaking to ex soldiers about the trauma of guilt, explored by Pascal through the Biblical story of Jonah, the prophet swallowed by a whale in punishment for not taking God’s word to Nineveh.
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Edward Petherbridge and Paul Hunter examine My Perfect Mind
INTERVIEW: EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE and PAUL HUNTER The two performers of My Perfect Mind, a Told by an Idiot show, written by Kathryn Hunter, Paul Hunter and Edward Petherbridge, and currently at the Young Vic, talk to Heather Neill about the story behind the play, Petherbridge’s stroke and how he remembered the entire role of King Lear despite his illness.
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Kristine Landon-Smith and Sudha Bhuchar review 23 years of working together at Tamasha
ASIAN VOICES: KRISTINE LANDON-SMITH and SUDHA BHUCHAR The joint artistic directors and co-founders of Tamasha theatre company talk to Suman Bhuchar about working together for the past 23 years, as Landon-Smith leaves the company to take a teaching job in Sydney, Australia. She has directed all the company’s shows, and their latest, The Arrival, has just ended its tour in London.
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Ian Talbot directs Imogen Stubbs and Amanda Daniels in new two-hander
INTERVIEW: IAN TALBOT The director talks to Aleks Sierz about his production of Dermot Canavan’s two-hander Third Finger, Left Hand (Trafalgar Studios), which stars Imogen Stubbs and Amanda Daniels, and is an autobiographical memory play that explores the lives of two sisters growing up in Preston in the 1970s.
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West End Review, April 2013 (pt1): The Audience, The Winslow Boy, Peter and Alice and more
West End Review: Dominic Cavendish and regular theatrevoice guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), David Benedict (Variety) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) convene to discuss Dame Helen Mirren in Peter Morgan’s The Audience (Gielgud), Terence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy (Old Vic), Before the Party (Almeida) & John Logan’s latest play Peter and Alice, starring Dame Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw, directed by Michael Grandage (Noel Coward Theatre). Recorded at NYU, London.
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West End Review, April 2013: Once & The Book of Mormon
West End Review: Once and The Book of Mormon. Dominic Cavendish (Daily Telegraph) continues the month’s look at the West End’s major openings with a double-take on two major American musical imports: Once (Phoenix Theatre) & The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales).
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Royal Shakespeare Company special: David Farr on Hamlet
DIRECTOR’S TALK: DAVID FARR The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Hamlet in conversation with journalist Paul Allen. They discuss why Hamlet is still a student at the age of 30, why Gertrude remarries in the play and answer audience questions about the set for this production and how Farr chose what parts of Shakespeare’s text to cut.
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Northern Broadsides’ Barrie Rutter on tour with Rutherford and Son
INTERVIEW: BARRIE RUTTER The artistic director of Northern Broadsides theatre company talks to Judi Herman about his current role, starring in the touring production of Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son (1912), directed by Jonathan Miller. He sets the play in the context of early twentieth century Northern drama, talks about being directed by Miller and about his long career, from the National Youth Theatre to Northern Broadsides.
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Playwright Simon Stephens on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS The award-winning playwright chats to Aleks Sierz about his superb adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Apollo Theatre), which has just transferred to the West End after opening at the National Theatre to enthusiastic reviews last year.
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Royal Shakespeare Company special: Roxana Silbert on A Life of Galileo
DIRECTOR’S TALK: ROXANA SILBERT The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s A Life of Galileo in conversation with journalist Paul Allen. They talk about what Galileo means to Roxana, who comes from a family of physicists, about working with Mark Ravenhill, who provided the new translation of Brecht’s play, and about how Brecht’s Galileo relates to the real Galileo. A Life of Galileo is playing as part of The World Elsewhere, a season of three plays exploring what was going on in the rest of the world during Shakespeare’s lifetime.