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Director David Byrne: the New Diorama and The Universal Machine (1/2)

3 May 2013

in Directors, Producers, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: DAVID BYRNE (1/2) The Artistic and Executive Director of the New Diorama theatre talks to Heather Neill about his career, the ethos of and plans for the venue, and about The Universal Machine, their musical about Alan Turing, which is written and directed by PIT and Byrne, with music composed by Night Engine’s Dominic Brennan, and movement from Gecko Theatre’s Associate Director Rich Rusk.

Director David Byrne: the New Diorama and The Universal Machine (2/2)

3 May 2013

in Directors, Producers, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: DAVID BYRNE (2/2) The Artistic and Executive Director of the New Diorama theatre talks to Heather Neill about his career, the ethos of and plans for the venue, and about The Universal Machine, their musical about Alan Turing, which is written and directed by PIT and Byrne, with music composed by Night Engine’s Dominic Brennan, and movement from Gecko Theatre’s Associate Director Rich Rusk.

Royal Shakespeare Company special: Maria Ahberg on As You Like It

2 May 2013

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

DIRECTOR’S TALK: MARIA AHBERG The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of As You Like It in conversation with RSC Events Coordinator Nicky Cox, discusses her approach to the production, including working with singer-songwriter Laura Marling, and how her cast deployed condoms and cous cous in rehearsals.

A Thousand Shards of Glass by the Jane Packman Company

1 May 2013

in Directors, Participatory & Interactive, Political theatre, Regional Theatre

INTERVIEW: JANE PACKMAN COMPANY Director Jane Packman, writer Ben Pacey and performer Lucy Ellinson talk to Diana Damian about their surround sound action adventure show A Thousand Shards Of Glass, dystopias, political theatre, graphic novels, Bourne films and insurrectionist texts. The show is currently touring the UK.

Blanche McIntyre gives a director’s-eye-view of The Seagull

30 April 2013

in Design, Directors, Regional Theatre, Russian Drama

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.

Julia Pascal and Ailin Conant: war crimes, guilt and trauma in Nineveh

30 April 2013

in Directors, London Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights

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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.

Kristine Landon-Smith and Sudha Bhuchar review 23 years of working together at Tamasha

24 April 2013

in Asian Voices, Directors, Playwrights, Producers

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.

Fourth Monkey’s Steve Green discusses Project Colony

18 April 2013

in Actors and Performers, Directors, London Fringe, Site Specific

INTERVIEW: STEVE GREEN Ella Parry-Davies meets the artistic director of theatre company and training institution Fourth Monkey, along with performers Lauren Young, Abbey Gorton and Euan Forsyth. The company’s latest production, Project Colony, is an immersive, site-sensitive response to Franz Kafka’s In the Penal Colony in London’s Docklands, devised by a 45-strong cast. The group discuss their devising process and the rewards of working in a site that can become a character in its own right.

One to watch: director Bruce Guthrie stages Othello in Singapore

17 April 2013

in Directors, International, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

INTERVIEW: BRUCE GUTHRIE The young director, who was Sam Mendes’s associate on Richard III in 2011, talks to Mary Mazzilli about his current production of Shakespeare’s Othello, part of Singapore’s Shakespeare in the Park season, and about what it is like to work in Singapore.

Ian Talbot directs Imogen Stubbs and Amanda Daniels in new two-hander

16 April 2013

in Directors, New Writing, Playwrights

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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.

Royal Shakespeare Company special: David Farr on Hamlet

8 April 2013

in Design, Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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.

Director and playwright Nine Raine talks about directing Longing

6 April 2013

in Design, Directors, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: NINA RAINE The director and playwright talks to Judi Herman about her current production of novelist William Boyd’s first play, Longing (Hampstead), and about her work with actor Tamsin Greig and designer Lizzie Clachan on that play and on Jumpy (Royal Court, 2011).

The Tricycle’s Indhu Rubasingham celebrates her first year as artistic director

5 April 2013

in Asian Voices, Directors, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: INDHU RUBASINGHAM The new artistic director of The Tricycle Theatre in north London talks to Suman Bhuchar about her first year in the job, and about the pleasures as well as the challenges of running this high-profile Off-West End venue, whose 2012 hit, Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet, has just been nominated for an Olivier Award.

Chris Haydon of London’s Gate Theatre tackles Bruce Norris’s Purple Heart

3 April 2013

in American Drama, Directors, London Fringe

INTERVIEW: CHRIS HAYDON The artistic director of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill chats to Ella Parry-Davies about directing the first revival of Bruce Norris’ 2002 play Purple Heart, which is currently at this venue. Part of the Aftermath season, the play focuses on the impact of the Vietnam War on a suburban family in America’s Mid West, and the invasion of horror into the domestic in the first of the USA’s “TV wars”.

Northern Broadsides’ Barrie Rutter on tour with Rutherford and Son

2 April 2013

in 20th-century Drama, Actors and Performers, Directors, Regional Theatre

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.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: Othello

10 March 2013

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Site Specific, Theatre buildings, Theatre People

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: OTHELLO Director Suba Das tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of Othello, which he directed as a “site specific horror experience” 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.

Hong Kong’s Mathias Woo goes to Singapore’s Huayi Festival

27 February 2013

in Directors, International, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: MATHIAS WOO The Hong Kong-based Zuni Icosahederon co-artistic director, who is also an architect, talks to Mary Mazzilli about architecture and theatre, making theatre in Asia, the changes in Hong Kong after the hand-over in 1997, Eighteen Springs (now running at Huayi Festival in Singapore) and what he thinks about experimental theatre in the UK.

Royal Shakespeare Company special: Lucy Bailey on The Winter’s Tale

27 February 2013

in Design, Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

DIRECTOR’S TALK: LUCY BAILEY The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2013 production of The Winter’s Tale. Talking to RSC events co-ordinator Nicky Cox and taking questions from the audience, Bailey explains why she was reluctant to direct The Winter’s Tale and what made her change her mind. She also talks about the differences between Sicilia and Bohemia in the play, and about how she chose her fool. Following its run in Stratford, The Winter’s Tale is going on a UK tour to Milton Keynes, York, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Hull and Stoke.

Rufus Norris and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith pick apart Feast

25 February 2013

in Actors and Performers, Black Voices, Directors, International, New Writing

INTERVIEW: RUFUS NORRIS & KOBNA HOLDBROOK-SMITH Director Rufus Norris and actor Kobna Holdbrook-Smith talk to Matt Trueman about Feast, a staged celebration of the Yoruba culture and belief system at the Young Vic. The production, the final part of World Stages London’s first programme, is a multi-authored project incorporating distinct scenes into a whole united by song, dance and spectacle to chart the spread of Yoruba culture from Africa around the world.

Michael Walling’s Border Crossings investigate sex, money and the internet

25 February 2013

in Directors, International, Playwrights, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: MICHAEL WALLING The artistic director of Border Crossings theatre company talks to Suman Bhuchar about their latest show, Consumed (touring), which features a story about Tong Zheng, who returns to Shanghai with money on his mind after spending 20 years in the USA. But the China he finds is very different from the one he left behind.

Royal Shakespeare Company special: Roxana Silbert on A Life of Galileo

22 February 2013

in Directors, International, Playwrights, Political theatre

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.

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