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Martin Parr’s cutdown Hamlet at the site of the Elizabethan Rose theatre

12 February 2013

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Theatre buildings

SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET Director Martin Parr talks to Heather Neill about his radically abbreviated Hamlet, which is being performed at the archaeological site of the Elizabethan Rose theatre on London’s Southbank. With a running time of 90 minutes and a handful of actors, this is billed as a most intense and dramatic version of the play.

Farah Karim-Cooper explores Renaissance indoor theatre at the Globe

23 January 2013

in Actors and Performers, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: FARAH KARIM-COOPER The head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London talks to Heather Neill about the venue’s new indoor theatre space, the Sam Wanamaker Theatre, and about indoor performance during the Renaissance.

Director Phyllida Lloyd introduces her all-female Julius Caesar

20 December 2012

in Directors, Feminism, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: JULIUS CAESAR The renowned director Phyllida Lloyd talks to Heather Neill about her acclaimed all-female version of Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), whose cast includes Frances Barber, Jenny Jules, Cush Jumbo and Harriet Walter.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: Twelfth Night

6 September 2012

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: TWELFTH NIGHT Director Tim Carroll discusses the first act of the play, which he is currently directing for Shakespeare’s Globe with Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry, 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.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: As You Like It

3 September 2012

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: AS YOU LIKE IT Director James Dacre, who recently staged the play at Shakespeare’s Globe, discusses the first act 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.

Actor Jamie Parker plays Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe

23 August 2012

in Actors and Performers, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: HENRY V Actor Jamie Parker talks to Heather Neill about the challenges of playing the title role in Henry V, directed by Dominic Dromgoole at Shakespeare’s Globe, and on the different attitudes to war in Shakespeare’s time and our own.

Director Toby Frow discusses The Taming of the Shrew at the Globe

22 August 2012

in Directors, Feminism, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Toby Frow, director of the play at Shakespeare’s Globe this summer, talks to Heather Neill about his production of this controversial drama, which starred Samantha Spiro.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: The Taming of the Shrew

21 August 2012

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Toby Frow, who has directed the play at Shakespeare’s Globe over the summer, in a production starring Samantha Spiro, discusses the first act of the play with Heather Neill. 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: Hamlet

25 July 2012

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: HAMLET Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, discusses the first act of the play, with reference to the Globe’s 2012 touring production, 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.

Globe to Globe: producer Tom Bird sums up

18 June 2012

in International, Producers, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

INTERVIEW: TOM BIRD The producer of Globe to Globe, the ambitious season which saw all 37 Shakespeare plays staged at Shakespeare’s Globe in foreign-language productions from every corner of the world, talks to Heather Neill about the project, its aims and achievements.

The Taming of the Shrew in Urdu at the Globe

29 May 2012

in Asian Voices, International, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

ASIAN VOICES: NADIA JAMIL and OMAIR RANA The Lahore screen and stage star, who plays Katherine (Qurat ul Aine), and the actor who plays Petruchio (Rustam), chat to Suman Bhuchar about the Theatre Wallay-KASHF production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), which is performed in Urdu as part of this theatre’s epic Globe to Globe season.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: Richard III

12 May 2012

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: RICHARD III Director Tim Carroll discusses the first act of the play, which he is directing at Shakespeare’s Globe this summer with Mark Rylance as Richard, 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.

Globe to Globe season: Hindi Twelfth Night discussed

30 April 2012

in Asian Voices, Directors, International, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

ASIAN VOICES: TWELFTH NIGHT Suman Bhuchar grabs key members of the Hindi production of Twelfth Night, by Company Theatre, presented at Shakespeare’s Globe as part of its Globe to Globe season. Atul Kumar, the director, and Amitosh Nagpal, the translator as well as a member of the acting ensemble – who plays Sebastian – are also joined by Steven Barfield, from the University of Westminster.

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.

Theatrevoice Review of 2011 (part 1)

23 December 2011

in Review of the Year, Reviews and Roundtables

Review of the Year: 2011 (part 1). Mark Shenton invites guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), David Benedict (Variety), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to consider the highs and lows of the reviewing year. In part 1, they consider Best New Play, Best Musical, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director. Recorded at the V&A, London.

Playwright Chris Hannan: new play and career overview (1/2)

13 August 2011

in New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: CHRIS HANNAN (1/2) The award-winning Scottish playwright discusses his latest play, The God of Soho (Shakespeare’s Globe), which is an extraordinary satire on celebrity and sex partly set in heaven, with Carole Woddis. He also talks about his career and his playwriting.

Playwright Chris Hannan: new play and career overview (2/2)

13 August 2011

in New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: CHRIS HANNAN (2/2) The award-winning Scottish playwright discusses his latest play, The God of Soho (Shakespeare’s Globe), which is an extraordinary satire on celebrity and sex partly set in heaven, with Carole Woddis.

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.

West End Review: June 2011 (1/2)

18 June 2011

in Reviews and Roundtables, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

WEST END REVIEW: REVIVALS SPECIAL

Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) assess Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s Theatre), starring Catherine Tate and David Tennant, and at Shakespeare’s Globe, starring Eve Best and Charles Edwards, A Delicate Balance (Almeida Theatre) and Butley, starring Dominic West (Duchess Theatre).

Dominic Dromgoole on his touring Hamlet

11 May 2011

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, talks to Heather Neill about the touring work the theatre does, centring on this summer’s portable production of Hamlet, and looking at the historical evidence for touring in Shakespeare’s day.

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