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Feminism

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Elgiva Field explores the dark world of Sofi Oksanen’s Purge

12 March 2012

in Directors, Feminism, International, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: ELGIVA FIELD The Artistic Director of Oblique House theatre company leads Aleks Sierz through the dark deeds and political complexities of Sofi Oksanen’s Purge, the play version of her bestselling novel, and a powerful production which is currently enjoying a successful run at the Arcola Theatre.

Playwright April De Angelis on sex, sense and feminist comedy

2 November 2011

in Comedy, Feminism, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: APRIL DE ANGELIS The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about her new play, Jumpy (Royal Court), which is a hilarious comedy about the relationship between mothers and daughters in the new digital age.

Playwright Julia Pascal dramatises a Mossad honeytrap

21 October 2011

in Feminism, London Fringe, Playwrights

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INTERVIEW: JULIA PASCAL The director and playwright explains to Aleks Sierz the politics and psychology behind her new play, Honeytrap (New Diorama), which tells the story of a Swedish-born mother who decides to work for Mossad, helping to avenge the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

Director Max Stafford-Clark revisits Caryl Churchill’s wonderful Top Girls

11 August 2011

in Feminism, New Writing, Playwrights

FOCUS ON TOP GIRLS Author Kate Mosse introduces a pre-show talk, ‘Directing Top Girls: Then and Now’, which features director Max Stafford-Clark discussing his Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls (1982), which has now transferred to the West End. The platform includes his assistant director Tim Hoare and most of the cast: Lucy Briers, Laura Elphinstone, Stella Gonet, Suranne Jones, Lisa Kerr, Catherine McCormack and Olivia Poulet.

Playwright Penelope Skinner on The Village Bike

20 July 2011

in Feminism, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: PENELOPE SKINNER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her new Royal Court play, The Village Bike, which explores the sex lives of a couple who have just moved into the countryside, and about Eigengrau, which was at the Bush Theatre in 2010.

Clean Break: Playwright Rebecca Prichard on Dream Pill

12 November 2010

in Feminism, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: REBECCA PRICHARD The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about her new play, Dream Pill (Soho Theatre), on the subject of child trafficking, which features in Charged, a two-part season of six plays produced by Clean Break theatre company. She also discusses her 1998 hit Yard Gal. Recorded at the Soho Theatre.

Playwright Moira Buffini updates Greek tragedy

3 September 2010

in Feminism, Greek Drama, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: MOIRA BUFFINI The playwright talks to Heather Neill about her latest play, Welcome to Thebes (National), which takes the stories of Antigone, Theseus and Eurydice and sets them in a contemporary war-torn African state. Recorded at the National Theatre.

Beautiful Burnout: playwright Bryony Lavery punches hard

27 August 2010

in Feminism, New Writing, Physical and Visual theatre, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: BRYONY LAVERY The playwright talks about her critically acclaimed boxing play (Frantic Assembly/National Theatre of Scotland) to Carole Woddis, and also gives insights into her long and prolific career. Recorded at the National Theatre.

Susan Croft on feminist theatre

18 June 2010

in Books, Feminism

FOCUS ON FEMINIST THEATRE Theatre researcher and curator Susan Croft talks to Carole Woddis about the How the Vote Was Won: Art, Theatre and Women’s Suffrage exhibition (Museum of Richmond), which she curated with Irene Cockroft, as well as about her book She Also Wrote Plays (Faber) and the Unfinished Histories project, which she co-founded with Jessica Higgs.

Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven (2/2)

8 November 2009

in Feminism, London Fringe, New Writing

FEMINIST THEATRE SPECIAL (2/2) Susan Croft, archivist and co-founder with Jessica Higgs of the Unfinished Histories project, continues the panel discussion about Jane Arden’s legendary play, Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven, first staged at Jim Haynes’s Arts Lab in 1969. Speakers: original cast members Sheila Allen and Victor Spinetti, plus original director Jack Bond. Recording courtesy of the British Library.

Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven (1/2)

8 November 2009

in Feminism, London Fringe, New Writing

FEMINIST THEATRE SPECIAL (1/2) Susan Croft, archivist and co-founder with Jessica Higgs of the Unfinished Histories project, leads the panel discussion about Jane Arden’s legendary play, Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven, first staged at Jim Haynes’s Arts Lab in 1969. Speakers: original cast members Sheila Allen and Victor Spinetti, plus original director Jack Bond. Recording courtesy of the British Library.

Playwright April De Angelis on Amongst Friends

29 May 2009

in Feminism, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: APRIL DE ANGELIS The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her latest black comedy, Amongst Friends (currently at the Hampstead), set in a gated community, and about her career, which started in acting and in the feminist theatre of the 1980s.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz on her Olivier Theatre debut

23 July 2008

in Feminism, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: REBECCA LENKIEWICZ The playwright talks to Philip Fisher about her history-making debut at the National’s Oliver theatre with Her Naked Skin, a new history play all about the Suffragettes.

West End Review: November 2007 (2/2)

16 November 2007

in Feminism, Reviews and Roundtables

WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Thea Sharrock’s revival of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine (Almeida) is discussed by David Benedict (Variety), Jane Edwardes (Time Out) and Aleks Sierz (Tribune). Dominic Cavendish (Daily Telegraph) hosts. Recorded at Dewynters, London.

Behind-the-scenes at the Colchester Mercury: all-female Julius Caesar (1/2)

14 November 2007

in Actors and Performers, Feminism, Regional Theatre, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

IN REHEARSAL: JULIUS CAESAR In another behind-the-scenes installment from the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, actors Gina Isaac and Nadia Morgan talk about playing in Dee Evans’s all-female revival of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

Playwright Kay Adshead combines feminism with dreaming

20 October 2006

in Feminism, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: KAY ADSHEAD The political playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her new play, Bones, and argues that theatre is a great place for poetry and dreaming, as well as issues and debates.

Unfinished Histories: Debate on Women’s Theatre (2/2)

6 April 2006

in Directors, Feminism

DEBATE: UNFINISHED HISTORIES – WOMEN’S THEATRE (2/2) Sheryl Crown, Gillian Hanna, Jenny Harris and Susie Orbach discuss; plus Q&A. Susan Croft hosts. Excerpt.

Unfinished Histories: Debate on Women’s Theatre (1/2)

6 April 2006

in Directors, Feminism

DEBATE: UNFINISHED HISTORIES – WOMEN’S THEATRE (1/2) Sheryl Crown, Gillian Hanna, Jenny Harris and Susie Orbach consider the 1970s explosion and its aftermath. Susan Croft hosts.

Pam Gems, acclaimed author of Piaf, talks

17 February 2006

in Feminism, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: PAM GEMS Now 80, the feminist and author of Piaf talks about her career and her latest biodrama, Mrs Pat, about the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell, to Dominic Cavendish.

Reputations: Caryl Churchill (2/2)

8 April 2005

in Feminism, New Writing, Playwrights, Reviews and Roundtables

REPUTATIONS: CARYL CHURCHILL (2/2) Linda Bassett, Graham Cowley, Deborah Findlay and Rick Fisher continue to pool their thoughts on Churchill plays and productions past. David Benedict chairs. Recorded live.

Reputations: Caryl Churchill (1/2)

8 April 2005

in Feminism, New Writing, Playwrights, Reviews and Roundtables

REPUTATIONS: CARYL CHURCHILL (1/2) Linda Bassett, Graham Cowley, Deborah Findlay and Rick Fisher begin to pool some thoughts on Churchill plays and productions past. David Benedict chairs. Recorded live.

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