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Edinburgh Festival and Fringe

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Little Bulb look back at their 1930s Orpheus

27 April 2013

in Actors and Performers, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Greek Drama, Musicals

INTERVIEW: LITTLE BULB Matt Trueman meets Alexander Scott, Dominic Conway and Claire Beresford of Little Bulb Theatre to discuss their production of Orpheus, set in a 1930s Parisian music hall with virtuosic guitarist Jean ‘Django’ Reinhardt taking the lead role. The young company talk about the centrality of music in their work and why they love the plucky amateurism of the theatrical naif.

NoFit State circus illuminate Bianco

27 April 2013

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Physical and Visual theatre

INTERVIEW: NOFIT STATE CIRCUS Ella Parry-Davies meets pioneering contemporary circus company No Fit State to discuss their latest production Bianco. The show’s Creative Producer Tom Rack, head rigger Lyndall Merry and performer Sage Cushman describe themselves as ‘ordinary people doing extraordinary things,’ and fill us in on the importance of expression, purity and accessibility to the artform, as well as the problematics of gender in performance roles. With music from the show by Fireproof Giant.

Shôn Dale-Jones introduces his alter-ego Hugh Hughes

5 December 2012

in Actors and Performers, Comedy, Digital theatre, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Physical and Visual theatre

INTERVIEW: SHÔN DALE-JONES The artistic director of Hoipolloi Theatre tells Matt Trueman about his alter-ego Hugh Hughes, an emerging artist from Wales, as his latest show Stories From an Invisible Town comes to the end of its UK tour. Just how does one give a fictional persona a fully-fledged off-stage life?

RADAR Festival – Kieran Hurley: playwright?

20 November 2012

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: KIERAN HURLEY The writer-performer talks to Matt Trueman about his award-winning play Beats, a fable about rave culture in the mid-nineties and the legislation against it, about theatre’s remit as a political act and why he’s finally coming round to the idea of himself as a playwright.

RADAR Festival – Playwright Luke Barnes on the buzz of new writing

17 November 2012

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights

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INTERVIEW: LUKE BARNES The playwright talks to Matt Trueman about discovering new writing, the process of emerging as a playwright and how his first plays Chapel Street and Bottleneck, both hits at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, are more than just reflections of himself.

Edinburgh 2012: Ontroerend Goed’s Alexander Devrient talks teenagers and All That’s Wrong

6 September 2012

in Directors, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, International

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INTERVIEW: ALEXANDER DEVRIENT As the final part of Ontroerend Goed’s teenage trilogy picks up yet another Fringe First and Total Theatre Award combo in Edinburgh, the innovative Belgian company’s artistic director tells Matt Trueman how All That’s Wrong fits into the whole project and what working with teenagers really involves.

Edinburgh Fringe 2012: Producer Richard Jordan

21 August 2012

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Producers, South African theatre

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2012 Producer Richard Jordan talks to Philip Fisher about the age of audiences, ticket pricing and Fringe economics, as well as about shows featuring Miriam Margolyes, Bob Kingdom, and the latest offerings at the Traverse, and from South African, plus Old Vic/New Voices, and more.

Edinburgh Fringe 2012: critical roundup

20 August 2012

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, International, Playwrights, Reviews and Roundtables, South African theatre

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2012: CRITICAL VERDICT Philip Fisher joins Mark Fisher (Scotland on Sunday) and Lyn Gardner (Guardian) to talk about offerings at the Traverse, International Festival and the remainder of the Fringe.

Edinburgh highlight: The South African Season at the Assembly

17 August 2012

in Actors and Performers, Directors, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, International, South African theatre

INTERVIEW: YAEL FARBER and BO PETERSEN The adapter and director of Mies Julie, based on Strindberg’s play, and the actor in Athol Fugard’s Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act talk to Philip Fisher about the critically acclaimed South African Season at the Assembly.

Interview (extract): Tim Supple in conversation

24 August 2011

in Asian Voices, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, International

Edinburgh Festival 2011: Tim Supple, director. An extract from a conversation ahead of the UK premiere of Supple’s two-part pan-Arabic version of One Thousand And One Nights, running at the Royal Lyceum as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. This section of the discussion, with Dominic Cavendish, deals with his early preparations for the project and reflections on differing theatre cultures in the Arab world.

Edinburgh Fringe 2011: critical roundup

22 August 2011

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Reviews and Roundtables

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EDINBURGH FRINGE 2011: CRITICAL VERDICT Philip Fisher joins Mark Fisher (Scotland on Sunday) and Lyn Gardner (Guardian) to talk about offerings at the Traverse, International Festival and the remainder of the Fringe.

“The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was like a magpie – it had gone around looking at lots of bright shiny things in other productions and had borrowed them. Great artists do indeed steal but I think in this instance what we actually got was something that felt quite second-hand.”

Edinburgh Fringe 2011: Producer Richard Jordan

17 August 2011

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Participatory & Interactive, Producers

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2011 Producer Richard Jordan discusses the joys and woes of two popular genres on the Edinburgh Fringe, on-on-one theatre and solo shows with Philip Fisher and offers some tips on getting them right. Jordan has produced and co-produced more than 55 plays for the stage – he is also one of the UK’s youngest producers, born in 1974.

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.

Theatre Uncut revives the drama of protest

11 July 2011

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, London Fringe, New Writing

INTERVIEW: LIBBY BRODIE and HANNAH PRICE The producer and artistic director of Theatre Uncut, an ambitious nationwide project which staged several short plays as a protest against the Coalition government’s spending cut, with the flagship event being at the Southwark Theatre, London, on 16-19 March, talk to Carole Woddis. Playwrights involved include Dennis Kelly, Lucy Kirkwood, Laura Lomas, David Greig, Anders Lustgarten, Mark Ravenhill, Jack Thorne and Clara Brennan.

Actress Cora Bissett on devising, directing and performing

5 December 2010

in Actors and Performers, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing

INTERVIEW: CORA BISSETT The multi-talented actress chats to Philip Fisher about creating and performing in David Greig and Gordon McIntyre’s 2009 smash hit Midsummer, currently playing at the Tricycle, and also about devising and directing the Amnesty Award-winning Roadkill, last seen earlier in the year at Edinburgh and which will tour in 2011. Recorded at the Tricycle.

Edinburgh 2010: the critics recommend their faves

24 August 2010

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Reviews and Roundtables

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2010 REVIEW Neil Cooper (The Herald) and Mark Fisher (Scotland on Sunday; Guardian) join Philip Fisher (British Theatre Guide, Western Mail) to select their personal highlights from the Fringe, as it draws to a close in its final week.

Edinburgh 2010: Caledonia, Roadkill, Hot Mess

24 August 2010

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Reviews and Roundtables

EDINBURGH 2010 REVIEW Neil Cooper (The Herald) and Mark Fisher (Scotland on Sunday; Guardian) join Philip Fisher (British Theatre Guide, Western Mail) to discuss Caledonia by Alistair Beaton (King’s Theatre) at the International Festival; Roadkill by Cora Bissett (Traverse) and Hot Mess (Hawke and Hunter) by Ella Hickson.

Edinburgh 2010: extraordinary David Leddy and Sub Rosa

24 August 2010

in Directors, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Playwrights

EDINBURGH 2010 Writer and director David Leddy, of Fire Exit Ltd, talks to Matt Boothman about his critically acclaimed show, Sub Rosa (Hill Street Theatre), a Victorian gothic promenade through a dark world of secrets and revolt. Expletives not deleted. Recorded at the occasionally noisy Underdogs cafe.

Edinburgh 2010: Issy van Randwyck interview

19 August 2010

in Actors and Performers, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe

EDINBURGH 2010 Versatile performer Issy van Randwyck discusses her Edinburgh show, Brian Parks’ Imperial Fizz (Assembly Rooms), and chats about balancing family and theatre work, and her varied career. Interview by Philip Fisher.

Edinburgh 2010: Freefall at the Traverse

18 August 2010

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Irish Drama, Playwrights

EDINBURGH 2010 Irish playwright Michael West discusses collaborative creation in the context of his Freefall (Traverse), a hit about the uncertainties of life seen through the eyes of a dying man, and also his previous play Dublin by Lamplight. Interview by Philip Fisher.

Edinburgh 2010: No Child, a Fringe smash

15 August 2010

in Actors and Performers, American Drama, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe

EDINBURGH 2010 Nilaja Sun, the New York actor and writer, talks about No Child (Assembly Rooms), her one-woman tragicomic expose of the worst aspects of the American schooling system, and her attempts to improve kids’ lives through the use of theatre. Excerpt from monologue. Interview by Philip Fisher.

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