SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: MEASURE FOR MEASURE Actor and director Brice Stratford tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of Measure for Measure, which he directed for The Owle Schreame Theatre Company at the Rose Theatre, Bankside, in 2011. This interview is part of theatreVOICE’s series for 2012-2014, looking at the beginning of each of Shakespeare’s plays.
Latest Recordings
The Archive
The archive is a back-catalogue of recordings since 2003. There are now more than 1000 recordings of sessions with critics, playwrights, directors, actors, and other theatre-makers, free to access via the search facility. Search the Archive
-
Pippa Nixon on four of her Shakespearean roles for the RSC
INTERVIEW: PIPPA NIXON The actress, who is currently playing Rosalind in As You Like It, directed by Maria Aberg, and Ophelia in Hamlet, directed by David Farr, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, talks to Judi Herman about these female roles; and about playing the Bastard in King John and Lady Anne in Richard III last year.
-
Actor Michael Pennington talks about playing Strindberg
INTERVIEW: MICHAEL PENNINGTON The star actor, celebrating his 70th birthday, talks to Heather Neill about his role as Edgar, opposite Linda Marlowe’s Alice, in the five-star production of August Strindberg’s Dances of Death, currently at the Gate Theatre in London in a new version by Howard Brenton, directed by Tom Littler.
-
Award-winning actor Richard McCabe talks about his role in The Audience
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.
-
Actor Hattie Morahan discusses A Doll’s House for today at the Young Vic
INTERVIEW: HATTIE MORAHAN The award-winning actress tells Sophie Reynolds about the Young Vic’s recent production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, directed by Carrie Cracknell, in which she starred as Nora.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.