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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.

The Riots – discussed by Nicolas Kent and Gillian Slovo

9 November 2011

in Directors, Political theatre, Verbatim Drama

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INTERVIEW: NICOLAS KENT and GILLIAN SLOVO The artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre and writer talk to Dominic Cavendish about The Riots, an attempt to create a rapid-reaction verbatim drama in response to the riots that swept across England in August 2011.

Chills and thrills at the London Horror Festival

8 November 2011

in Directors, London Fringe, Physical and Visual theatre

INTERVIEW: STEWART PRINGLE The co-director of the London Horror Festival (which runs at the Courtyard Theatre until 27 November) tells Diana Damian about the seasonal theme of ghosts stories, the relationship between horror and theatre, and the scope of this year’s festival as well as his future ambitions.

Lois Keidan and Gavin Butt explore Performance Matters

28 October 2011

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

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INTERVIEW: LOIS KEIDAN and GAVIN BUTT The Director of the Live Art Development Agency and the Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, talk to Diana Damian about Trashing Performance (25-30 October), an international programme of live art events and discussions, co-directed by Butt.

Interview: Edward Bond talks about Saved

22 October 2011

in 1960s Drama, Directors, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: EDWARD BOND and SEAN HOLMES The playwright joins the artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith to discuss the latter’s revival of his landmark 1965 play, Saved, which features the stoning to death of a baby in a pram by a group of London youths. Extracts from a conversation with Dominic Cavendish for a Daily Telegraph article to coincide with this production, the first London showing for the play in 27 years.

Designer Alison Chitty on Motley and Mike Leigh’s Grief (1/2)

18 October 2011

in Design, Directors, Theatre People

INTERVIEW: ALISON CHITTY (1/2) The head of the Motley Theatre Design Course talks to Carole Woddis about her career and her current work on Mike Leigh’s Grief (National Theatre).

Designer Alison Chitty on Motley and Mike Leigh’s Grief (2/2)

18 October 2011

in Design, Directors, Theatre People

INTERVIEW: ALISON CHITTY (2/2) The head of the Motley Theatre Design Course talks to Carole Woddis about her career and her current work on Mike Leigh’s Grief (National Theatre).

Jonathan Church looks forward to Chichester’s 50th anniversary

10 October 2011

in Directors, Musicals, Regional Theatre

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INTRODUCTION: JONATHAN CHURCH The artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre talks to Carole Woddis about the venue’s 50th anniversary season next year, and about his current production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.

Daniel Evans toasts 40 years of Sheffield Theatres

9 October 2011

in Directors, Regional Theatre, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

INTERVIEW: DANIEL EVANS The artistic director of Sheffield Theatres tells Heather Neill about his programme to celebrate the Crucible theatre’s 40th anniversary, and discusses his current production of Othello, starring Clarke Peters and Dominic West, in detail.

West End Review: The Tempest, Anna Christie and more

5 October 2011

in Directors, Reviews and Roundtables

WEST END REVIEW (2/2)

Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Anna Christie (Donmar Warehouse), Top Girls (Trafalgar Studios), The Kitchen (National Theatre) and Broken Glass (Vaudeville).

Talawa celebrates 25 years of black theatre at the V&A

4 October 2011

in Black Voices, Directors, New Writing

BLACK VOICES: PAT CUMPER The artistic director of Talawa tells Carole Woddis about the company’s 25-year history and its current production of The Colored Museum (1986), George C Wolfe’s groundbreaking savage satire on 200 years of African-American history, which is revived in an apt setting at the V&A museum, and about the first black British Waiting for Godot.

Ian Brown discusses King Lear, starring Tim Pigott-Smith

3 October 2011

in Directors, Regional Theatre, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: KING LEAR Ian Brown, the outgoing artistic director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, talks to Heather Neill about his well-received production of King Lear, starring Tim Pigott-Smith and currently running at the Quarry theatre.

The Belle’s Stratagem: reviving the 18th century

22 September 2011

in 18th-century Drama, Actors and Performers, Directors

INTERVIEW: JESSICA SWALE and MAGGIE STEED The director and lead actor of the Red Handed Theatre Company’s revival of Hannah Cowley’s 1780 play, The Belle’s Stratagem (Southwark Playhouse), talk to Carole Woddis about the challenges and pleasures of reviving a forgotten classic.

Sam Walters celebrates 40 years at the Orange Tree Theatre

16 September 2011

in Directors, London Fringe, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: SAM WALTERS The artistic director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond talks to Carole Woddis about what it feels like to be the longest-serving head of a theatre in the country, and about his exceptional venue, which began as a pub theatre and then in 1991 moved across the road into a converted church which houses the only purpose-built theatre-in-the-round in London.

Edinburgh Fringe 2011: Belgian director Alexander Devriendt breaks taboos

14 August 2011

in Directors, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Live Art

EDINBURGH 2011: ALEXANDER DEVRIENDT The artistic director of Belgium company Ontroerend Goed talks to Philip Fisher about his controversial and taboo-breaking theatre, especially Audience (St George’s West), his current show, which has polarised spectators and got everybody talking about its uncomfortable breaching of the boundaries of personal privacy.

Belarus Free Theatre co-founders interviewed

23 July 2011

in Directors, International

INTERVIEW: NATALIA KOLIADA and NIKOLAI KHALEZIN The co-founders of the Belarus Free Theatre find time in a busy schedule to talk about how they came to set up their underground theatre company, which operates in conditions of the strictest repression in their homeland, and now has a base in London. Their most recent show Eurepica.Challenge runs at the Almeida Theatre to 26 July. The company stages a new work at the Pleasance, Edinburgh in mid-August.

Palestinian director and writer Amir Nizar Zuabi adapts Kafka

22 July 2011

in Directors, International, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: AMIR NIZAR ZUABI The director and writer, whose Haifa-based Palestinian ShiberHur theatre company is currently performing an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s In the Penal Colony at the Young Vic, talks to Amardeep Sohi about the play, the question of freedom and why he does not accept subsidy from the Israeli state.

Curators of ArtsAdmin’s Wake and Archipelago projects

18 July 2011

in Directors, Site Specific

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INTERVIEW: ANNE BEAN and GARY STEVENS The curators of ArtsAdmin’s Wake and Archipelago, a six-week programme of performances and installations taking place concurrently at two galleries in Southwark Park, talk to Diana Damian about the work and other projects.

What is Greyscale’s Theatre Brothel? All is explained…

12 July 2011

in Directors, Physical and Visual theatre, Site Specific

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INTERVIEW: LORNE CAMPBELL Greyscale’s artistic director talks to Diana Damian about Theatre Brothel, the company’s micro-festival currently on at the Almeida Theatre, featuring guest artists Inua Ellams and Pin the Tale, and about how to engage the audience in a different theatrical encounter.

Dan Barnard and Rachel Briscoe direct Lydia Adetunji’s Fixer

7 July 2011

in Directors, London Fringe, New Writing

INTERVIEW: DAN BARNARD and RACHEL BRISCOE The co-directors of Lydia Adetunji’s new play, Fixer, which is currently on at the Oval House Theatre in south London, take Aleks Sierz on a journey into its dark tale of oil company PRs, inquisitive journalists and militant rebels, set in northern Nigeria. Briscoe is also, with Rebecca Atkinson-Lord, co-director of the venue, and she outlines its future.

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