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A new season of adventurous events at the Camden People’s Theatre

22 February 2012

in Directors, Live Art, London Fringe, Participatory & Interactive, Physical and Visual theatre

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INTERVIEW: BRIAN LOGAN and JENNY PATON The new co-directors of the Camden People’s Theatre introduce Aleks Sierz to the wonderful world of experimental theatre which goes beyond boundaries with news of the venue’s annual Sprint Festival, and details of some other upcoming productions.

Improbable Theatre’s Julian Crouch discusses Punch and puppetry

10 February 2012

in Design, Directors, Physical and Visual theatre

INTERVIEW: JULIAN CROUCH The director, designer and writer talks to Diana Damian about his Improbable show The Devil and Mr Punch, currently at the Barbican Pit, and about sending Punch to hell, plays within plays, preciousness in puppetry and Brooklyn.

Shakespeare’s First Acts series: Love’s Labour’s Lost

4 February 2012

in Directors, Regional Theatre, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

Shakespeare’s First Acts: Love’s Labour’s Lost. Barrie Rutter, artistic director of Northern Broadsides, talks about some of the challenges and the pleasures of the first act of Love’s Labour’s Lost, as part of theatrevoice’s new series, for Olympics year 2012, looking at the beginning of each of Shakespeare’s plays.

Playwright Ishy Din and director Iqbal Khan get Snookered

26 January 2012

in Asian Voices, Directors, Playwrights

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ASIAN VOICES: ISHY DIN and IQBAL KHAN The playwright and director of Snookered (Oldham Coliseum Theatre/Bush Theatre) talk to Suman Bhuchar about the genesis and staging of this new play, produced by Tamasha, which examines British Muslim life today.

Ian Rickson discusses his Michael Sheen Hamlet

19 December 2011

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET The director Ian Rickson talks to Heather Neill about his current production of Hamlet (Young Vic), which stars Michael Sheen and has a controversial modern-day setting inside a secure wing of a psychiatric hospital.

Debate: the most controversial play in London

13 December 2011

in Directors, Participatory & Interactive, Reviews and Roundtables

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DEBATE: HAS THEATRE GONE TOO FAR? Panel discussion chaired by Paul Warwick of China Plate Theatre with participants Steve Marmion (Artistic Director Soho Theatre), Simon Stokes (Artistic Director Theatre Royal Plymouth), David Jubb (Artistic Director BAC), Joe Murphy (Artistic Director Nabokov) and Laura Barnett (journalist) about Ontroerend Goed’s Audience (currently at the Soho Theatre).

David Micklem on the BAC’s Christmas Cook-Up season

7 December 2011

in Directors, London Fringe, Physical and Visual theatre

INTERVIEW: DAVID MICKLEM The Co-Artistic Director of BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), speaks to Diana Damian about this year’s Christmas Cook-Up, the venue’s plans for 2012 and some of the arts centre’s new digital projects.

A Walk On Part: Changing the World after New Labour

2 December 2011

in Directors, Reviews and Roundtables

DEBATE: CHANGING THE WORLD THROUGH POLITICS AND THE ARTS Panel discussion chaired by Michael Crick with participants Diane Abbott MP, Don Foster MP, Artistic Director Steve Marmion and actor John Hodgkinson, about the political background of Michael Chaplin’s adaptation of Chris Mullin’s diaries, A Walk On Part: The Fall of New Labour (currently at the Soho Theatre).

Interview: Sean Holmes talks about Saved

11 November 2011

in 1960s Drama, Directors, Playwrights

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INTERVIEW: SEAN HOLMES The artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith discusses in detail, with Aleks Sierz, his revival of Edward Bond’s landmark 1965 play, Saved, which features the stoning to death of a baby in a pram by a group of London youths.

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