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The Young Vic’s David Lan on staging Wild Swans

20 April 2012

in Directors, International, Playwrights, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: DAVID LAN The artistic director of the Young Vic talks to Mary Mazzilli about the making of Wild Swans, the first stage adaptation of the 1991 best-selling autobiography by Chinese-born writer Jung Chang. The stage version — part of World Stage season — is written by Alexandra Wood and directed by Sacha Wares.

Angus Jackson directs Edward Bond’s flinty study of the bard

10 March 2012

in 1970s Drama, Directors, Playwrights, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

INTERVIEW: ANGUS JACKSON The director talks to Aleks Sierz about his sellout revival of Edward Bond’s Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death (1973), which is currently at the Young Vic in a co-production with the Chichester Festival. The play, which stars Patrick Stewart, looks at Shakespeare’s last weeks of life.

Ian Rickson discusses his Michael Sheen Hamlet

19 December 2011

in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET The director Ian Rickson talks to Heather Neill about his current production of Hamlet (Young Vic), which stars Michael Sheen and has a controversial modern-day setting inside a secure wing of a psychiatric hospital.

David Lan, Jude Kelly and Richard Eyre on the arts

25 March 2011

in Directors, Theatre People

WHAT NEXT…? Excerpt from the Young Vic’s two-hour seminar, attended by 500 members of the arts industry, exploring the future of arts funding in the face of the new era of cut-backs. Keynote speeches from Young Vic artistic director David Lan, Jude Kelly, artistic director of the South Bank Centre, and Sir Richard Eyre, former artistic director of the National Theatre. Recorded at the Young Vic by Carole Woddis. www.whatnextarts.com

Director Joe Hill-Gibbins revives Martin McDonagh

29 July 2010

in American Drama, Directors, Irish Drama

INTERVIEW: JOE HILL-GIBBINS The director talks to Philip Fisher about his cracking revival of Martin McDonagh’s 1996 debut, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic). He also looks back at his controversial debut, Wallace Shawn’s A Thought in Three Parts, and forwards to his upcoming production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Recorded at the Young Vic.

Director Polly Findlay explores Caryl Churchill

23 July 2010

in 1970s Drama, Directors, New Writing

INTERVIEW: POLLY FINDLAY The director talks to Carole Woddis about her current revival of Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Arcola), her 1976 play about the radical ideas that surfaced during the English Revolution of the 1640s, as well as about the James Menzies-Kitchin Young Director Award, which she won in 2007. Recorded at the Young Vic.

David Lan on August Wilson, and the Young Vic

20 May 2010

in American Drama, Directors, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: DAVID LAN The Artistic Director of the Young Vic talks to Philip Fisher about reviving legendary American playwright August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1984), which is currently at this venue, as well as about his career, and the mission and future of the Young Vic. Recorded at the Young Vic.

Regional theatre: election 2010 roundtable

30 April 2010

in Directors, Regional Theatre, Reviews and Roundtables

REGIONAL THEATRE SPECIAL On the eve of the election, Patrick Sandford (artistic director of the Nuffield, Southampton), Simon Stokes (artistic director of the Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and Rachel Tackley (director of English Touring Theatre) join Dominic Cavendish to discuss the state of play in theatre outside London. Recorded at the Young Vic, London.

Che Walker on Been So Long and The Frontline

24 June 2009

in Directors, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: CHE WALKER The playwright-turned-lyricist and director talks to Aleks Sierz about his new version of Been So Long, a raunchy play with music by Arthur Darvill (Young Vic), and about his The Frontline, which was the first contemporary story to be staged at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Matthew Dunster on writing, directing and acting

24 March 2009

in Directors, New Writing, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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INTERVIEW: MATTHEW DUNSTER The playwright, director and actor talks to Philip Fisher about the return to the Young Vic of his 2008 play, You Can See the Hills (Royal Exchange, Manchester), and his Globe productions of Troilus and Cressida and Che Walker’s The Frontline (which also returns this summer).

Director Sacha Wares on Random

20 March 2008

in Black Voices, Directors, New Writing

INTERVIEW: SACHA WARES The director talks to Aleks Sierz about her production of debbie tucker green’s latest, Random (Royal Court), and about her other stagings of this innovative and provocative playwright’s work.

Director Dominic Hill on A Prayer for My Daughter

5 February 2008

in American Drama, Directors, New Writing

INTERVIEW: DOMINIC HILL The new artistic director of Edinburgh’s Traverse talks to Aleks Sierz about his revival of Thomas Babe’s 1978 psycho-thriller, A Prayer for My Daughter (Young Vic), and about his plans for new writing at the Traverse.

Director Bijan Sheibani on The Brothers Size

19 November 2007

in American Drama, Directors, New Writing

INTERVIEW: BIJAN SHEIBANI The new head of the ATC (Actors Touring Company) talks to Aleks Sierz about his imaginative staging of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, a hit for the Young Vic, and explains some of the Yoruba cosmology that underpins the play.

Review of Simply Heavenly

29 October 2004

in American Drama, Musicals, Reviews and Roundtables

SIMPLY HEAVENLY A West End transfer for Josette Bushell-Mingo’s revival of Langston Hughes’ Harlem-set musical. John Nathan, Adam Scott and Mark Shenton discuss it.

Artistic director of Young Vic David Lan

14 May 2004

in Directors, International, Producers, Theatre People

INTERVIEW: DAVID LAN With the Young Vic coming to the end of an era this summer, Heather Neill hears about the theatre’s past, present and future from its artistic director.

Playwright Martin Crimp rare interview (1/2)

11 May 2004

in Greek Drama, International, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: MARTIN CRIMP (1/2) The playwright talks to Dominic Cavendish about Cruel and Tender, his radical reworking of Sophocles’ Trachiniae.

Review of The Skin of Our Teeth

12 March 2004

in American Drama, Reviews and Roundtables

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH David Benedict, Rhoda Koenig and Heather Neill chew over Thornton Wilder’s neglected apocalyptic comedy, revived now at the Young Vic. Dominic Cavendish hosts.

Review of Skellig

5 December 2003

in Children's Theatre, Reviews and Roundtables

SKELLIG David Almond’s award-winning children’s book hits the Young Vic stage. Heather Neill, Patrick Marmion and Mark Shenton cheer. David Benedict, however, boos.