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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with performers Julien Clément, Denis Fargeton, Nicholas Mathis and Aline Piboule (Music) of France’s Collectif Petit Travers, about their show, Pan Pot, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“Sometimes we started with the music, and sometimes with silence, using just the rhythm of the juggling to guide us.”
- Recording Date: 22-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with Dimitry Aryupin (Director) of Russia’s BlackSkyWhite about their show, USSR Was Here, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the ICA. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“I'm not really fond of the regime of the former USSR, but I was born there so the best time of my life was spent there.”
- Recording Date: 19-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with performer Jeanne Mordoj of France’s Comagnie Bal/Jeanne Mordoj about her show, Eloge Du Poil, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Barbican. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian: variable quality. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“The beard provoked existential questions: I wondered what would happen if a normal woman went to a bar wearing a beard.”
- Recording Date: 28-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with performers Renana Raz and Yuval Fingerman of Israel’s Etgar Theatre about their show, Eshet, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“To work with a biblical text is very challenging because it is very concise and economic so you have to fill in the gaps with your imagination.”
- Recording Date: 18-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with performers Xavier Bouvier and Benoit Devos of Belgium's Okidok, about their show, Slips Inside, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“We met at school, and we were both bad at soccer so we both went to a circus workshop during the holidays.”
- Recording Date: 23-Jan-2010
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- Asian voices: Bhasker Patel. The actor, who is currently playing Mau's father in Mark Ravenhill's adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Nation (National), talks to Suman Bhuchar about this play, and about his 30 years in the business, which started at this flagship theatre in the 1970s and includes film and television classics. Recorded at the National.
“I am really so glad that Asian theatre companies, such as Tara, Tamasha and Kali, are there for Asian actors to get jobs in contemporary plays.”
- Recording Date: 04-Jan-2010
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- Interview: Ursula Martinez. Ahead of a new show at the Barbican Centre, My Stories Your Emails, Ursula Martinez, best-known now for her involvement in cabaret sensation La Clique, talks to Carole Woddis about her work and why she was dismayed to find her subversive strip-tease act laid bare on the web. http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=9943
“It found its way on the internet and thereafter I started receiving emails from fans from all over the world, most of it innocuous and charming, some of it not so charming.. quite inappropriate and somewhat delusional...”
- Recording Date: 25-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with Patrick Bonté (Director), Nicole Mossoux (Performer, Director) and Thomas Turine (Composer) of Belgium's Mossoux-Bonté, about their show, Kefar Nahum, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Barbican. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“Through improvisation we match up the sound to the object, and surprise and not knowing is the key.”
- Recording Date: 21-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with Toby Sedgwick (Director), Alison King (Producer), and performers Charlotte Mooney, Alex Harvey, Tina Koch, Paul Evans, Stefano Di Renzo, and Phil Supple (Lighting Designer), of Ockham's Razor, about their show, The Mill, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Linbury Studio. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“We played around with the stage machinery, and we came up with the idea of the big wheel, a clear metaphor for work.”
- Recording Date: 20-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with Dimitri De Perrot and Martin Zimmermann of Switzerland's Zimmermann & De Perrot, about their show, Oper Opis (Someone, Something), performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Barbican Theatre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“Who cares what it is called now? Visual theatre, physical theatre? It is some of the best theatre that I see in the year.”
- Recording Date: 14-Jan-2010
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- Chekhov special: Actor Michael Pennington talks to Heather Neill about A Jubilee for Anton Chekhov (Hampstead Theatre), a week-long event hosted by him and Chekhov specialist Rosamund Bartlett which celebrates the playwright's 150th anniversary and aims to raise money to save the White Dacha in Yalta, where he wrote some of his greatest plays. More info: www.hampsteadtheatre.com
“Chekhov married Olga Knipper without telling his sister Masha - he was full of all the usual male cowardice.”
- Recording Date: 13-Jan-2010
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- International theatre: Director Helena Kaut-Howson talks to Heather Neill about Dea Loher's Innocence (Arcola), a series of loosely connected symbolic stories from one of Germany's leading contemporary playwrights. Recorded at the Arcola. More info: www.arcolatheatre.com.
“Dea Loher doesn't look for stories; she doesn't look for narratives. In fact she mistrusts narrative as something which enslaves us.”
- Recording Date: 12-Jan-2010
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- New York Special: Hair. Cast members Gavin Creel and Caissie Levy talk to Philip Fisher about the current Broadway revival of Hair (Al Hirschfeld Theatre), the 1967 Tribal Love-Rock Musical, its characters and the politics of the show, and the chance of bringing it to the West End in April. More info: www.hairbroadway.com
“It’s all about getting in the audience’s faces and involving them - they’re the other character. That communion between the audience and the actors is what makes this production really special.”
- Recording Date: 05-Jan-2010
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- New York Special: Michael Feingold, chief theatre critic of the Village Voice chats to Philip Fisher about theatrical life in the Big Apple, covering both the big houses of Broadway as well as Off-Broadway venues, looking at both the latest new plays and revivals.
“I almost think that the larger New York theatres have priced themselves out of the civilised market. That means that the theatre will not be exciting.”
- Recording Date: 03-Jan-2010
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- New York Special: Scott Morfee, Artistic Director of Off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre, talks to Philip Fisher about his latest long-running hit, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, running a theatre during the recession and his Chicago connections, including Tracy Letts and David Cromer.
“About 65 percent of our audience is actually from the metro New York area and so we don't rely as heavily on tourists as Broadway does.”
- Recording Date: 31-Dec-2009
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- West End Review: The Misanthrope and more. Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss the latest West End and off-West End openings: Red (Donmar Warehouse), The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre), Rope (Almeida), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello) and Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory). Recorded at the V&A, edited by Dominic Cavendish.
“We really haven't had a theatrical event like this in London in quite a while - where the player is the thing and not the play - and I wonder whether in three weeks any of us will remember that much about it.”
- Recording Date: 18-Dec-2009
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- Focus on video: Jill Evans, producer of the V&A's National Video Archive of Performance, and Kate Dorney, curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance, tell Aleks Sierz about the V&A's extensive collection of video recordings of theatre performances, and discuss the hazards as well as the joys of creating them.
“Technology is changing all the time and getting better - as of yesterday, we've discovered a way of making excellent quality small-scale recordings.”
- Recording Date: 17-Dec-2009
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