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Chinese dance supremo Willy Tsao on the art of movement

21 February 2013

in Directors, International

INTERVIEW: WILLY TSAO The Chinese dance supremo, and founder of the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, the City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong) and BeijingDance/LDTX, tells Mary Mazzilli about how to make contemporary dance in China and Hong Kong. He also gives his verdict on dance in the UK.

How to play Money: The Gameshow — and survive the experience

20 February 2013

in Actors and Performers, Directors, Participatory & Interactive, Playwrights, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: CLARE DUFFY, LUCY ELLINSON and BRIAN FERGUSON The writer/director and performers of Money: The Game Show, produced by Unlimited Theatre and currently at the Bush Theatre, speak to Ella Parry-Davies. The show is an interactive piece about the human cost of financial crisis, and features £10 000 in real pound coins on stage, asking the participants to bet and hedge the futures of the characters.

The Orange Tree’s Sam Walters discovers a forgotten 1920s feminist play

17 February 2013

in Directors, Feminism, London Fringe, Playwrights

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INTERVIEW: SAM WALTERS The artistic director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond takes Aleks Sierz on a journey of discovery to explore the world of Githa Sowerby’s 1924 play, The Stepmother (currently playing at this venue), and its themes of male domination, female independence and bankruptcy. Best known for Rutherford and Son (1912), Sowerby failed to get a full production of the later play in her lifetime.

Martin Parr’s cutdown Hamlet at the site of the Elizabethan Rose theatre

12 February 2013

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Theatre buildings

SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET Director Martin Parr talks to Heather Neill about his radically abbreviated Hamlet, which is being performed at the archaeological site of the Elizabethan Rose theatre on London’s Southbank. With a running time of 90 minutes and a handful of actors, this is billed as a most intense and dramatic version of the play.

Focus on China: Fat Bird on experimental performance (1/2)

11 February 2013

in Directors, International, Playwrights, Political theatre

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INTERVIEW: YANG QIAN and MARY ANN O’DONNELL (1/2) The two founder members of Fat Bird Theatre Company talk to Mary Mazzilli about what it’s like to make theatre in Shenzhen-Guangdong, the oldest and fastest-growing Special Economic Zone in China. This is the only independent theatre company that promotes experimentation and internationalism; they focus on social changes and are dedicated to transforming Chinese theatre through experimental workshops, guerrilla performances and stage drama.

Focus on China: Fat Bird on experimental performance (2/2)

11 February 2013

in Directors, International, Playwrights, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: YANG QIAN and MARY ANN O’DONNELL (2/2) The two founder members of Fat Bird Theatre Company talk to Mary Mazzilli about what it’s like to make theatre in Shenzhen-Guangdong, the oldest and fastest-growing Special Economic Zone in China. This is the only independent theatre company that promotes experimentation and internationalism; they focus on social changes and are dedicated to transforming Chinese theatre through experimental workshops, guerrilla performances and stage drama.

Purni Morell talks about the Unicorn, its forthcoming season and children’s theatre

9 February 2013

in Children's Theatre, Directors, Youth Theatre

INTERVIEW: PURNI MORELL The artistic director of the Unicorn Theatre talks to Dominic Cavendish about her ambitions for the UK’s first purpose-built theatre for children and young people and gives a quick guide to the coming season.

Justin Audibert surveys his Gruesome Playground Injuries

2 February 2013

in American Drama, Awards, Directors, London Fringe, New Writing

INTERVIEW: JUSTIN AUDIBERT The Leverhulme Bursary-winning director tells Matt Trueman about the intricate relationship at the heart of Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries (2009), which he directs for the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, and why the play’s greatest asset is its theatricality.

Critic Kate Bassett discusses the career of Jonathan Miller (1/2)

10 January 2013

in Books, Criticism, Directors, Theatre People

INTERVIEW: KATE BASSETT (1/2) The Independent on Sunday theatre critic and author of a new, authorised and definitive biography of the director and polymath Jonathan Miller, In Two Minds (Oberon Books), talks to Heather Neill about his achievements.

Critic Kate Bassett discusses the career of Jonathan Miller (2/2)

10 January 2013

in Books, Criticism, Directors, Theatre People

INTERVIEW: KATE BASSETT (2/2)

The Independent on Sunday theatre critic and author of a new, authorised and definitive biography of the director and polymath Jonathan Miller, In Two Minds (Oberon Books), talks to Heather Neill about his achievements.

Director Phyllida Lloyd introduces her all-female Julius Caesar

20 December 2012

in Directors, Feminism, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: JULIUS CAESAR The renowned director Phyllida Lloyd talks to Heather Neill about her acclaimed all-female version of Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), whose cast includes Frances Barber, Jenny Jules, Cush Jumbo and Harriet Walter.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: The Winter’s Tale

18 December 2012

in Directors, Playwrights, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Theatre People

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: THE WINTER’S TALE Director Lucy Bailey tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of The Winter’s Tale, which she is currently rehearsing for the RSC Winter Season, opening in Stratford-upon-Avon in January 2013. This interview is part of theatreVOICE’s new series for Olympics year 2012, looking at the beginning of each of Shakespeare’s plays.

Dramaturg Zoe Svendsen discusses the Young Vic production of The Changeling

13 December 2012

in Directors, Physical and Visual theatre, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

INTERVIEW: ZOE SVENDSEN The dramaturg of Joe Hill-Gibbins’s exciting production of Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling (which returns to the Young Vic after opening in February this year) talks to Heather Neill about this vivid theatre event.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: Pericles

10 December 2012

in Children's Theatre, Directors, Outdoors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: PERICLES

Natalie Abrahami, Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of Pericles, which she directed for the Regents Park Open Air Theatre in 2011. This interview is part of theatreVOICE’s new series for Olympics year 2012, looking at the beginning of each of Shakespeare’s plays.

Panel discussion about Anthony Burgess and A Clockwork Orange (1/2)

26 November 2012

in 20th-century Drama, Books, Directors, Physical and Visual theatre, Reviews and Roundtables

THE GENIUS OF ANTHONY BURGESS (1/2) Panel discussion about A Clockwork Orange (Soho Theatre), chaired by Soho’s artistic director Steve Marmion, with Alexandra Spencer-Jones, the director of the production, plus Andrew Biswell (author of The Real life of Anthony Burgess) and John Sutherland (Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of English Literature at University College London). With an extract from Burgess’s reissued Napoleon Symphony (Serpent’s Tail) read by Martin McCreadie, the actor who plays Alex.

Panel discussion about Anthony Burgess and A Clockwork Orange (2/2)

26 November 2012

in 20th-century Drama, Books, Directors, Physical and Visual theatre, Reviews and Roundtables

THE GENIUS OF ANTHONY BURGESS (2/2) Panel discussion about A Clockwork Orange (Soho Theatre), chaired by Soho’s artistic director Steve Marmion, with Alexandra Spencer-Jones, the director of the production, plus Andrew Biswell (author of The Real life of Anthony Burgess) and John Sutherland (Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of English Literature at University College London). With an extract from Burgess’s reissued Napoleon Symphony (Serpent’s Tail) read by Martin McCreadie, the actor who plays Alex.

A Christmas Carol adapted by Dominic Gerrard and directed by Tim Carroll

22 November 2012

in Actors and Performers, Directors, Physical and Visual theatre

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INTERVIEW: TIM CARROLL and DOMINIC GERRARD The director and actor talk to Heather Neill about their bicentennial one-man production of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, which will be performed at the Waterloo East Theatre (3-15 December), with other London performances at the Dickens Museum and at the V&A Museum.

Adrian and Tracie Pang make English theatre in Singapore

21 November 2012

in Directors, International, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: ADRIAN AND TRACIE PANG The artistic directors of Pangdemonium Theatre (Full Monty, Closer, Spring Awakening, Swimming with Sharks) talk about moving to Singapore, working in the Singaporean theatre scene, and bringing the best of contemporary theatre in English to Singapore.

Arab Nights: tales of revolution and hope

13 November 2012

in Directors, International, New Writing, Playwrights, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: POPPY BURTON MORGAN The co-artistic director of Metta Theatre tells Sophie Reynolds about Arab Nights (Soho Theatre), the company’s new production that brings together six new plays inspired by recent events in the Middle East and North Africa, within the framework of The Arabian Nights.

Gareth Machin, artistic director of Salisbury Playhouse, on William Golding’s The Spire

30 October 2012

in Directors, Playwrights, Regional Theatre

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INTERVIEW: GARETH MACHIN The new artistic director of Salisbury Playhouse talks to Dominic Cavendish about the challenges of running a regional theatre, and about his bold new project to bring to the main stage The Spire, a fictionalised slice of local cathedral-building history, courtesy of Lord of the Flies author William Golding.

Jermyn Street Theatre’s Gene David Kirk and Anthony Biggs on fringe success

21 October 2012

in 20th-century Drama, Directors, London Fringe

INTERVIEW: GENE DAVID KIRK and ANTHONY BIGGS Jermyn Street Theatre’s out-going artistic director talks about how he turned this tiny central London venue into a theatrical powerhouse, the venue’s latest coup – Trevor Nunn’s production of Beckett’s All That Fall – and the programme for the coming six months while associate director Anthony Biggs, appointed his successor, shares the experience of working alongside Nunn and outlines his vision for the theatre’s future too.

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