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Edinburgh 2008: Jonathan Mills

16 August 2008

in Directors, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, International, Producers

EDINBURGH 2008 Jonathan Mills, the director of the Edinburgh International Festival, talks to Philip Fisher about this year’s programme and especially its embrace of Europe’s expanded frontiers, including the Polish revival of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis.

Rising comic star Mark Watson talks about stand-up

8 August 2008

in Actors and Performers, Comedy, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2008 Mark Watson, who is appearing on the Fringe with All the Thoughts I’ve Had Since I Was Born at the Pleasance, talks to Philip Fisher about his life in comedy.

Edinburgh hit about the priesthood and paedophilia

8 August 2008

in Actors and Performers, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Playwrights

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2008 Playwright and performer Owen O’Neill talks to Philip Fisher about his Fringe hit in the making – Absolution at the Assembly Rooms on George Street; a monologue about paedophilia, the priesthood and vigilante vengeance.

Black Voices: Playwright Michael Bhim (2/2)

23 July 2008

in Black Voices, New Writing, Playwrights

BLACK VOICES: MICHAEL BHIM (2/2) Steven Luckie talks to the rising playwright about his development and work, including Pure Gold, which was staged at the Soho Theatre in October 2007. Expletives not deleted.

Black Voices: Playwright Michael Bhim (1/2)

23 July 2008

in Black Voices, New Writing, Playwrights

BLACK VOICES: MICHAEL BHIM (1/2) Steven Luckie talks to the rising playwright about his development and work, focusing especially on the influence of Continental European literature on his outlook. Expletives not deleted.

Bush Theatre’s Josie Rourke at the Latitude Festival

18 July 2008

in Directors, New Writing, Outdoors

INTERVIEW: JOSIE ROURKE The artistic director of the Bush theatre chats to Dominic Cavendish about the multi-authored Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover, which hits London after wowing festivalgoers in Suffolk. Recorded at the Latitude festival.

Edinburgh 2008: Vicky Featherstone on David Harrower

8 July 2008

in Directors, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing

EDINBURGH 2008 Vicky Featherstone, artistic director of the National Theatre of Scotland, talks to Mark Brown about one of the highlights of the International Festival, the premiere of David Harrower’s 365, about the journey of vulnerable and damaged young people out of the care system.

Declan Donnellan on Troilus and Cressida

12 June 2008

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Declan Donnellan, the artistic director of Cheek by Jowl, talks to Heather Neill in detail about his production of Troilus and Cressida – presented as part of his company’s residency programme at the Barbican.

The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare’s Globe

29 May 2008

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Director Christopher Luscombe talks to Heather Neill about staging Shakespeare’s bourgeois comedy at the Globe – and discusses the play’s remarkable affinities with British sitcoms such as Fawlty Towers.

RSC chief Michael Boyd battles with Shakespeare’s Histories (2/2)

1 May 2008

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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.

National Theatre Connections playwrights roundtable (2/2)

26 March 2008

in Children's Theatre, Reviews and Roundtables, Transcripts, Youth Theatre

FOCUS ON YOUTH THEATRE (2/2) Heather Neill continues her chat with Roy Williams, Dennis Kelly and Lin Coghlan about their plays for the National Theatre: Baby Girl, DNA and The Miracle.

US playwright Terrence McNally visits the UK

13 March 2008

in American Drama, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: TERRENCE McNALLY The US playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about A Perfect Ganesh, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and now revived for a UK tour by Phizzical Productions. He also discusses other work including his controversial play about Christ, Corpus Christi.

Of plumbers and Polish playwrights

29 February 2008

in International, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: DOROTA MASLOWSKA The cult 24-year-old Polish novelist, whose play A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians gets its UK premiere at Soho Theatre, chats to Dominic Cavendish. In Polish and English; Agnieszka Blonska translates.

Dominic Dromgoole on the new season at Shakespeare’s Globe

8 February 2008

in Directors, Theatre buildings

SHAKESPEARE: DOMINIC DROMGOOLE The artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe tells Heather Neill about the 2008 season, directing Lear and why this unique theatre space needs to stage contemporary plays as well as classics.

The future star of Gone with the Wind speaks

3 January 2008

in Actors and Performers, American Drama, Musicals

NEW YORK SPECIAL Jill Paice, co-starring in the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains and soon to play Scarlett O’Hara in the musical of Gone With the Wind, talks to Philip Fisher in a dressing-room at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

The Adding Machine comes to New York

2 January 2008

in 20th-century Drama, American Drama, Directors

NEW YORK SPECIAL David Cromer, director of the lauded chamber musical The Adding Machine, based on the 1923 Elmer Rice expressionist drama, talks to Philip Fisher, prior to its arrival at the Minetta Lane Theater.

New York special with tween musical Wanda’s World

30 December 2007

in Actors and Performers, American Drama, Musicals

NEW YORK SPECIAL Eric Weinberger, Beth Falcone and Lynne Taylor-Corbett meet Philip Fisher at Ripley Grier Studios to talk about the ‘tween musical’ Wanda’s World, running at the 45th Street Theatre.

Janie Dee on the tough art of acting

11 October 2007

in Actors and Performers,

INTERVIEW: JANIE DEE The actress, currently playing Joy Gresham to Charles Dance’s CS Lewis in William Nicholson’s Shadowlands at Wyndham’s Theatre, talks frankly to Philip Fisher about the challenge of the role – and her Olivier-winning career.

Nick Hytner talks lots about Much Ado About Nothing

5 October 2007

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Nicholas Hytner, artistic director of the National Theatre talks to Heather Neill in detail about Much Ado About Nothing, his new revival starring Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanamaker.

Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall on his new play

27 September 2007

in Directors, Playwrights, Regional Theatre

INTERVIEW: LEE HALL Best known as the creator of Billy Elliot, the playwright joins Max Roberts, artistic director of Live Theatre, Newcastle, to talk about his new play. The Pitmen Painters revisits the story of the Ashington Group – a 1930s society of miners who discovered they had a talent to paint.

Take Flight creative team in conversation

18 July 2007

in Design, Directors, London Fringe, Musicals

TAKE FLIGHT SPECIAL (1/2) A brief roundtable chat involving the composer David Shire, Menier Chocolate Factory producer David Babani, director Sam Buntrock and designer David Farley about the forthcoming world premiere of Take Flight.

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