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Royal Shakespeare Company special: David Farr on Hamlet

8 April 2013

in Design, Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

DIRECTOR’S TALK: DAVID FARR The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Hamlet in conversation with journalist Paul Allen. They discuss why Hamlet is still a student at the age of 30, why Gertrude remarries in the play and answer audience questions about the set for this production and how Farr chose what parts of Shakespeare’s text to cut.

Royal Shakespeare Company special: Lucy Bailey on The Winter’s Tale

27 February 2013

in Design, Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

DIRECTOR’S TALK: LUCY BAILEY The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2013 production of The Winter’s Tale. Talking to RSC events co-ordinator Nicky Cox and taking questions from the audience, Bailey explains why she was reluctant to direct The Winter’s Tale and what made her change her mind. She also talks about the differences between Sicilia and Bohemia in the play, and about how she chose her fool. Following its run in Stratford, The Winter’s Tale is going on a UK tour to Milton Keynes, York, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Hull and Stoke.

Royal Shakespeare Company special: Roxana Silbert on A Life of Galileo

22 February 2013

in Directors, International, Playwrights, Political theatre

DIRECTOR’S TALK: ROXANA SILBERT The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s A Life of Galileo in conversation with journalist Paul Allen. They talk about what Galileo means to Roxana, who comes from a family of physicists, about working with Mark Ravenhill, who provided the new translation of Brecht’s play, and about how Brecht’s Galileo relates to the real Galileo. A Life of Galileo is playing as part of The World Elsewhere, a season of three plays exploring what was going on in the rest of the world during Shakespeare’s lifetime.

Professor Tony Howard investigates Multicultural Shakespeare

21 January 2013

in Asian Voices, Black Voices, Playwrights, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: TONY HOWARD The University of Warwick professor talks to Suman Bhuchar about Multicultural Shakespeare, a major AHRC-funded project to record the contribution of Black and Asian artists to the development of Shakespearean performance in the UK.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: The Winter’s Tale

18 December 2012

in Directors, Playwrights, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Theatre People

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: THE WINTER’S TALE Director Lucy Bailey tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of The Winter’s Tale, which she is currently rehearsing for the RSC Winter Season, opening in Stratford-upon-Avon in January 2013. This interview is part of theatreVOICE’s new series for Olympics year 2012, looking at the beginning of each of Shakespeare’s plays.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: Much Ado About Nothing

14 October 2012

in Comedy, Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Iqbal Khan tells Sophie Reynolds about his Indian-inspired production for the RSC, currently playing at the Noel Coward Theatre in London. This interview is part of theatreVOICE’s new series for Olympics year 2012, looking at the beginning of each of Shakespeare’s plays.

Actor Madhav Sharma tackles Much Ado About Nothing

1 September 2012

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Actor Madhav Sharma talks to Suman Bhuchar about his performance as Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, which is set in Delhi and directed by Iqbal Khan for the RSC as part of the World Shakespeare Festival.

RSC director Greg Doran on his African Julius Caesar

3 August 2012

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, South African theatre

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SHAKESPEARE: JULIUS CAESAR Greg Doran, the RSC’s artistic director designate, talks in depth to Heather Neill about his critically acclaimed production of Julius Caesar, which is set in Africa and was inspired by Nelson Mandela’s experiences of reading the play while in prison on Robben Island. The production is touring to London and internationally.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: The Tempest

28 June 2012

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: THE TEMPEST Director David Farr discusses the first act of the play, which he directed recently for the RSC, with Sophie Reynolds. This interview is part of theatreVOICE’s new series for Olympics year 2012, looking at the beginning of each of Shakespeare’s plays.

Tim Crouch describes his RSC Shakespeare solo, I, Cinna (The Poet)

21 June 2012

in Actors and Performers, Directors, Playwrights, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Youth Theatre

INTERVIEW: TIM CROUCH The leading experimental theatre-maker talks to Dominic Cavendish about the latest in his series of solo shows turning the spot-light on a minor character in Shakespeare: I, Cinna (The Poet), a commission from the RSC to tie in with its revival of Julius Caesar, starring the actor Jude Owusu – and being streamed to schools around the UK on 2 July.

David Edgar’s masterpiece, Pentecost, revived

28 March 2012

in New Writing, Playwrights, Political theatre

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INTERVIEW: DAVID EDGAR The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his 1994 RSC play, Pentecost, a panoramic sweep through European history, culture and art that covers the new world order after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and which is currently being revived in a production at St Leonard’s church, in Shoreditch, East London, directed by Gavin McAlinden.

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.

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.

Jonathan Slinger talks about his RSC Macbeth

27 May 2011

in Actors and Performers, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

INTERVIEW: JONATHAN SLINGER The actor, who made his name appearing at the Royal Shakespeare Company, especially in substantial roles in the Histories – Richard II and Richard III – talks to Heather Neill about his greatest challenge to-date, playing Macbeth for Michael Boyd.

David Edgar: the King James Bible and the English Reformation

29 March 2011

in Playwrights, Political theatre, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

INTERVIEW: DAVID EDGAR The playwright, whose play about the making, 400 years ago, of the King James Bible, Written on the Heart, will premiere at the RSC’s Swan Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon in the autumn, talks to Heather Neill about its story – the story of the English Reformation.

Rupert Goold directs Romeo and Juliet

21 March 2011

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET Heather Neill talks to Headlong artistic director Rupert Goold about his thrilling production of Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company), starring Sam Troughton and Mariah Gale. Recorded at the RSC rehearsal rooms, Clapham.

Playwright Tanika Gupta adapts Great Expectations

17 March 2011

in Asian Voices, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: TANIKA GUPTA The playwright tells Suman Bhuchar about her new adaptation of Great Expectations (Watford Palace and English Touring Theatre), which transposes Dickens’s story to 1860s India, and is currently on tour in a production directed by Nikolai Foster. Recorded at ETT.

Review of the Year 2010

4 February 2011

in Musicals, Review of the Year, Reviews and Roundtables

REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2010 Join Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) as they assess the highs and lows of the reviewing year, from Matilda at the RSC to Julie Andrews at the O2 Arena. Recorded at Dewynters, London.

The first British-Asian Hamlet makes the bard popular

26 January 2011

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

ASIAN VOICES: DHARMESH PATEL The first British-Asian Hamlet talks to Suman Bhuchar about making his Shakespearean debut in the RSC’s 70-minute young people’s version of the play, which is touring Britain and will arrive at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in February. Recorded at the Roundhouse, where he is also playing in the RSC’s The Comedy of Errors and As You Like It.

Dominic Dromgoole on massive plans for the Globe

21 January 2011

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: DOMINIC DROMGOOLE The artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe talks about his plans for a multi-lingual festival of Shakespeare’s complete works, to coincide with the run-up to the 2012 Olympics; he also describes the major new project to construct an indoor Jacobean theatre alongside the Globe and outlines the vision behind the 2011 season The Word Is God. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.

John Caird reveals the secrets of directing

22 March 2010

in Books, Directors

DIRECTING SPECIAL Director John Caird talks to Philip Fisher about his new book, Theatre Craft: A Director’s Practical Companion from A to Z (Faber), a huge volume of practical knowledge about the art of theatre directing, as well as about a career that has taken him not only to great heights with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, but also around the globe.

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