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Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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Birdsong star Eddie Redmayne on his award-winning role as Richard II

6 February 2012

in Actors and Performers, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: RICHARD II Eddie Redmayne, whose performance in the title role of Richard II won the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance talks to Heather Neill about the play, and about his career and other plans.

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.

Ian Rickson discusses his Michael Sheen Hamlet

19 December 2011

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET The director Ian Rickson talks to Heather Neill about his current production of Hamlet (Young Vic), which stars Michael Sheen and has a controversial modern-day setting inside a secure wing of a psychiatric hospital.

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.

Haydn Gwynne on the Sam Mendes Richard III

5 September 2011

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SHAKESPEARE: RICHARD III Actor Haydn Gwynne, who plays Queen Elizabeth in Sam Mendes’s Richard III (Old Vic), which also stars Kevin Spacey and is the last of this venue’s The Bridge Project (a three-year cross-Atlantic venture), talks to Heather Neill about the play, which is touring internationally.

West End Review: July 2011 (2/2)

31 July 2011

in 20th-century Drama, Reviews and Roundtables, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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 Shakespeare’s Richard III (Old Vic), Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (Comedy Theatre), Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness (National Theatre) and Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre).

Actor Charles Edwards and Much Ado About Nothing

19 July 2011

in Actors and Performers, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Actor Charles Edwards talks to Heather Neill about his role as Benedick, opposite Eve Best’s Beatrice, in Jeremy Herrin’s great production of the play at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Janie Dee on All’s Well That Ends Well

22 June 2011

in Actors and Performers, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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SHAKESPEARE: ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Award-winning actor Janie Dee talks to Heather Neill about her debut at Shakespeare’s Globe, playing the Countess of Roussillon in a production directed by John Dove.

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