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- Shakespeare: the History Plays (2/2). As the RSC's monumental Histories cycle nears the end of its run at the Roundhouse in London, its master-planner talks to Heather Neill about the company's awfully big adventure. Also: listen to the first part of this discussion: www.theatrevoice.com/listen_now/player/?audioID=480. More info: www.rsc.org.uk.
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“The sense of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts was of course at the heart of the project.”
- Recording Date: 01-May-2008
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- West End Review: Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) asks David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to share their verdicts on Gone with the Wind (New London), Fram (National), Harper Regan (National) and Small Change (Donmar). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
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“Trevor Nunn has been responsible for some of the greatest evenings of my life - I cannot believe he did Gone with the Wind.”
- Recording Date: 25-Apr-2008
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- Interview: Peter Gill (2/2). The veteran director and playwright speaks some more to Aleks Sierz about his own production of his 1976 play, Small Change (currently revived at the Donmar), and about his early career at the Royal Court in the late 1950s and 1960s.
“Joan Littlewood's Stratford East was the place to go to see things - there was never a dud show there ever.”
- Recording Date: 23-Apr-2008
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- Interview: Peter Gill (1/2). The veteran director and playwright speaks to Aleks Sierz about his own production of his 1976 play, Small Change (currently revived at the Donmar), and about his early career at the Royal Court in the late 1950s and 1960s.
“The thing I noticed this time is that Gerard and Mrs Driscoll never meet - which must mean something...”
- Recording Date: 23-Apr-2008
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- Theatre Book Prize 2007 Ian Herbert, Chairman of the Society for Theatre Research, introduces Howard Loxton, creator of the prize, judges Jeffery Richards, Sian Phillips and Claire Allfree, plus presenter Donald Sinden.
“Michael Billington's State of the Nation was hugely ambitious and it had so much about the movements I've lived through.”
- Recording Date: 01-Apr-2008
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- Interview: David Pugh. The top West End producer, who has been responsible for hits such as Art, The Play What I Wrote, Equus and now Yasmina Reza's The God of Carnage (Gielgud), chats frankly to Philip Fisher about the art of being a theatre impresario.
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“A lot of producers are rich before they start - I wasn't. And without being able to raise money, you can't do the job.”
- Recording Date: 21-Mar-2008
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- SHAKESPEARE: Dominic Dromgoole. The artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe tells Heather Neill about the 2008 season, directing Lear and why the Globe needs contemporary plays. More info: www.shakespeares-globe.org.
“I wanted to celebrate what a category-smasher Shakespeare was. Every time he sat down to write a play he reinvented himself. ”
- Recording Date: 08-Feb-2008
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