ASIAN VOICES: ISHY DIN and IQBAL KHAN The playwright and director of Snookered (Oldham Coliseum Theatre/Bush Theatre) talk about the genesis and staging of this new play, produced by Tamasha, which examines British Muslim life today.
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Nicholas Wright on Caroline Blackwood and Wallis Simpson
INTERVIEW: NICHOLAS WRIGHT The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest work, The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre), which is based on the book of the same name by Caroline Blackwood, and tells the fascinating story of the last years of Wallis Simpson, widow of Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1936.
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Femi Elufowoju Jr on his all-female Blue/Orange
BLACK VOICES: FEMI ELUFOWOJU Jr The Artistic Director of Tiata Fahodzi theatre company talks to Amardeep Sohi about his radical, all-female revival of Joe Penhall’s 2000 hit, Blue/Orange, currently running at the Arcola Theatre, London. Recorded at Tiata Fahodzi.
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V&A National Video Archive of Performance
FOCUS ON VIDEO Jill Evans, producer of the V&A’s National Video Archive of Performance, and Kate Dorney, curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance, tell Aleks Sierz about the V&A’s extensive collection of video recordings of theatre performances, and discuss the hazards as well as the joys of creating them.
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Director Gene David Kirk on Urban Scrawl and Theatre 503
FRINGE FOCUS: URBAN SCRAWL Director and playwright Gene David Kirk, programming director of Theatre 503 and the new head of the Jermyn Street Theatre, tells Aleks Sierz about his work on theatreVOICE’s innovative Urban Scrawl project, and about life on London’s fringe.
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Frantic Assembly and Othello
INTERVIEW: SCOTT GRAHAM AND STEVEN HOGGETT The joint-artistic directors of Frantic Assembly, talk to Philip Fisher about their radical new vision of Shakespeare’s Othello (currently playing at the Lyric, Hammersmith), and about the path from dance theatre that has led them to it.
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Award-winning playwright Joe Penhall quizzed (2/2)
INTERVIEW: JOE PENHALL (2/2) The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his career as a whole and the divided reactions to his latest piece, Dumb Show, which is about tabloid journalism.
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Award-winning playwright Joe Penhall quizzed (1/2)
INTERVIEW: JOE PENHALL (1/2) As the Sheffield Crucible revives his Blue/Orange (2000), the playwright discusses his controversial hit about mental health and racial identity. Aleks Sierz quizzes.
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Experimental piece On Blindness in rehearsal
IN REHEARSAL: ON BLINDNESS Vicky Featherstone, Steven Hoggett and Glyn Cannon talk to Dominic Cavendish about working together to create On Blindness, on tour and coming to the Soho Theatre.