Audio: Directors
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Performers Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni explore Peter Brook’s Valley of Astonishment
1st July 2014
INTERVIEW: KATHRYN HUNTER and MARCELLO MAGNI The performers, who are married, talk to Judi Herman about appearing together in The Valley of Astonishme...
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Director Jonathan Munby casts Eve Best in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
16th June 2014
SHAKESPEARE: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Director Jonathan Munby talks to Heather Neill about his very well-received version of this Roman play, currently at...
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Research with Reach: how university-based research can affect arts and culture
9th June 2014
INTERVIEW: CASSIE BRADLEY and PENNY NEWELL The actor (in Sam Mendes's King Lear) and the doctoral researcher at King's College London, who are co-conv...
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Shakespeare: All’s Well That Ends Well (In Gujarati)
9th May 2014
ASIAN VOICES: SHAKESPEARE Suman Bhuchar conducts an interview about All's Well That Ends Well, as performed in Gujarati at Shakespeare's Globe, with i...
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Director and cast of the RSC First Encounters Taming of the Shrew share their views
23rd April 2014
SHAKESPEARE: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Director Michael Fentiman, actors Katy Stephens (Petruchio) and Forbes Masson (Katherina) talk to Judi Herman abo...
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Shane Shambhu, artistic director of Altered Skin, talks about Power Games
20th April 2014
ASIAN VOICES: SHANE SHAMBHU The artistic director of Altered Skin, whose physical theatre show, Power Games, is on a UK tour, talks to Suman Bhuchar a...
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Director Adele Thomas on The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a Renaissance mash up
3rd April 2014
INTERVIEW: ADELE THOMAS The director chats to Heather Neill about her production of Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Sam Wanamaker...
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Director David Mercatali explores the thrilling work of playwright Philip Ridley
2nd April 2014
INTERVIEW: DAVID MERCATALI The director talks to Aleks Sierz about his current production of Philip Ridley’s superb new play, Dark Vanilla Jungle, w...
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Bill Buckhurst talks about The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare’s Globe
28th March 2014
SHAKESPEARE: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE The director talks to Heather Neill about Shakespeare’s play, which is the Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Ban...
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