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Regional Theatre

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Digital theatre: The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, livestreamed

12 May 2012

in Digital theatre, Regional Theatre

Interview: The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning. John McGrath, director of National Theatre Wales, and Tom Beardshaw – multi-platform designer – discuss The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, a play by Tim Price exploring the case of the US soldier accused of leaking classified US diplomatic cables along with half a million army reports.They focus on the livestreamed production, a new departure for UK theatre. Interview by Ella Parry-Davies.

Dot Wood MBE of M6 looks back at 30 years of youth theatre

16 April 2012

in Children's Theatre, Directors, Regional Theatre, Youth Theatre

INTERVIEW: DOT WOOD The artistic producer of the legendary M6 company, a Theatre-in-Education group based in Rochdale, looks back with David Chadderton at her 30 years with this project, which resulted in producing an extraordinarily varied and wide-ranging body of work for young people.

A new radical spin on The Odyssey in Oxford

7 April 2012

in Actors and Performers, Greek Drama, Participatory & Interactive, Regional Theatre, Site Specific

INTERVIEW: MADELEINE HYLAND and JAMES ERSKINE A performer with The Factory and the executive director of Creation Theatre talk to Ella Parry-Davies about a new collaboration between the two companies, a staging of Homer’s The Odyssey, directed by Tim Carroll, performed in the Norrington Room in Blackwell’s Bookshop, Broad Street, Oxford, until 28 April.

Volcano Theatre on their explosive A Clockwork Orange

7 March 2012

in Directors, Physical and Visual theatre, Playwrights, Regional Theatre

INTERVIEW: PAUL DAVIES The Artistic Director and founder member of Swansea’s Volcano theatre company talks to Aleks Sierz about their latest show, an adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel, A Clockwork Orange, which is visiting the Arcola Theatre in London. He also muses on the company’s history and some of its most memorable shows.

Shakespeare’s First Acts series: Love’s Labour’s Lost

4 February 2012

in Directors, Regional Theatre, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

Shakespeare’s First Acts: Love’s Labour’s Lost. Barrie Rutter, artistic director of Northern Broadsides, talks about some of the challenges and the pleasures of the first act of Love’s Labour’s Lost, as part of theatrevoice’s new series, for Olympics year 2012, looking at the beginning of each of Shakespeare’s plays.

Laurence Boswell talks about Calderon, Goethe, Marivaux

14 December 2011

in International, Regional Theatre

Interview: Laurence Boswell, director, talks to Dominic Cavendish about his season of premiered translations of neglected European classics at the Ustinov Theatre, Bath: The Phoenix of Madrid by Calderon de la Barca, Iphigenia by Goethe and The Surprise of Love by Marivaux. Recorded at the Theatre Royal, Bath.

Executive director John Blackmore on 12 years at the Bolton Octagon

27 October 2011

in Producers, Regional Theatre, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: JOHN BLACKMORE The executive director of the Octagon Theatre in Bolton looks back on his forty-plus year career, during which he saved the Octagon and the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres from bankruptcy and headed theatre companies such as the Library Theatre Company in Manchester, Northern Stage in Newcastle (which he created), The Dukes in Lancaster, Warwick Arts Centre and the English Shakespeare Company.

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.

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.

David Ward on the Theatre by the Lake

28 June 2011

in Books, Regional Theatre, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: DAVID WARD The journalist and literary consultant of the extraordinary 400-seat Theatre by the Lake in Keswick talks to David Chadderton about the history of this venue, which he also explores in his book, Encore! Ten Years of Theatre by the Lake (Bookcase, 2009).

Braham Murray and the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre

28 June 2011

in Directors, Regional Theatre, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: BRAHAM MURRAY The joint-artistic director of the Manchester Royal Exchange theatre, who has just announced his retirement from the job, talks to David Chadderton on the telephone about a career spanning four decades as a leading light in the theatrical life of the city, in a tale whose proudest moment was leading the rebuilding of his venue after it was almost destroyed by an IRA bomb.

Actor Edward Petherbridge complete career overview

30 May 2011

in Actors and Performers, Books, Regional Theatre

INTERVIEW: EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE The actor tells Philip Fisher about his new book, Slim Chances and Unscheduled Appearances (Indepenpress Publishing), which is a series of essays exploring his career — from Guildenstern in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to Lord Peter Whimsey, and beyond — and preoccupations, including the Old Vic under Laurence Olivier, the Actors Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

John McGrath unveils the second season for NTW

26 May 2011

in Directors, Regional Theatre, Site Specific

INTERVIEW: JOHN McGRATH The artistic director of National Theatre Wales gives theatreVOICE an exclusive survey of his programme for the company’s second season, running from this year’s Edinburgh Festival into next year’s Olympic period and concluding in the forests of North Wales in autumn 2012. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.

David Slack of Manchester’s 24:7 Festival

23 May 2011

in Actors and Performers, New Writing, Playwrights, Regional Theatre

INTERVIEW: DAVID SLACK The Executive Producer of the 24:7 Theatre Festival, an event that focuses on new writing in Manchester and is now in its eighth year, chats to David Chadderton about the origins, significance and influence of the festival, which runs annually in late July.

Sandi Toksvig post-show discussion on Bully Boy

15 May 2011

in Regional Theatre, Reviews and Roundtables

COMBAT STRESS ROUNDTABLE Broadcaster Sandi Toksvig joins director Patrick Sandford, Simon Blagden, former Captain in the Paratroopers (currently on the Appeals committee of charity Combat Stress) and Andrew Cameron, chief executive of Combat Stress (the UK’s leading military charity specialising in the care of veterans’ mental health) for a short discussion of the issues raised by her drama Bully Boy, running at the Nuffield Theatre Southampton, May 2011.

Director David Thacker explores the work of Arthur Miller

24 March 2011

in American Drama, Directors, Playwrights, Regional Theatre

INTERVIEW: DAVID THACKER The artistic director of the Octagon Theatre Bolton talks to David Chadderton on the telephone about his current revival of Arthur Miller’s The Price (1968), and about his long and rewarding working relationship with the legendary playwright.

Pete Postlethwaite remembered… by Greg Hersov

5 January 2011

in Actors and Performers, Regional Theatre

PETE POSTLETHWAITE REMEMBERED Greg Hersov, artistic director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester (in tandem with Braham Murray & Sarah Frankcom), pays tribute to the recently deceased actor (1946-2011) with whom he worked on two major productions (The Homecoming and The Tempest). He also recalls earlier encounters both at the Exchange and in Bristol. Interview by Dominic Cavendish.

Greg Hersov on life at the Manchester Royal Exchange

5 January 2011

in Directors, Regional Theatre

REGIONAL THEATRE: MANCHESTER Greg Hersov, artistic director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester (in tandem with Braham Murray and Sarah Frankcom) talks about his long-term association with the theatre and the city. Dominic Cavendish quizzes. Recorded in Manchester.

Playwright Dan Rebellato: Chekhov in Hell

9 November 2010

in New Writing, Playwrights, Regional Theatre

INTERVIEW: DAN REBELLATO The playwright and academic talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest successful play, Chekhov in Hell (Drum Theatre, Plymouth), which sees the Russian playwright come awake, after a 100-year coma, in 21st-century Britain.

Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment on their latest hit

2 November 2010

in Directors, Live Art, Regional Theatre

INTERVIEW: TIM ETCHELLS The director and founding member of Forced Entertainment, the Sheffield-based experimental theatre company, talks to Aleks Sierz about their latest show, The Thrill of It All, which uses deranged dance, voice distortion and Japanese lounge music, and is currently visiting London. Recorded at the Riverside Studios.

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