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Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar talks about his debut play Disgraced
ASIAN VOICES: AYAD AKHTAR The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, script-writer and actor talks to Amardeep Sohi about his debut play, Disgraced, which is currently being staged at the Bush Theatre, and which explores the experience of American Muslim professionals in the wake of 9/11.
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Award-winning actor Richard McCabe talks about his role in The Audience
INTERVIEW: RICHARD McCABE The Olivier winning actor talks to Heather Neill about playing Harold Wilson in The Audience, Peter Morgan’s superb new play about the Queen’s audiences with her Prime Ministers (Gielgud Theatre), and which stars Helen Mirren as Her Majesty.
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Actor Hattie Morahan discusses A Doll’s House for today at the Young Vic
INTERVIEW: HATTIE MORAHAN The award-winning actress tells Sophie Reynolds about the Young Vic’s recent production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, directed by Carrie Cracknell, in which she starred as Nora.
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Director David Byrne: the New Diorama and The Universal Machine (1/2)
INTERVIEW: DAVID BYRNE (1/2) The Artistic and Executive Director of the New Diorama theatre talks to Heather Neill about his career, the ethos of and plans for the venue, and about The Universal Machine, their musical about Alan Turing, which is written and directed by PIT and Byrne, with music composed by Night Engine’s Dominic Brennan, and movement from Gecko Theatre’s Associate Director Rich Rusk.
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Director David Byrne: the New Diorama and The Universal Machine (2/2)
INTERVIEW: DAVID BYRNE (2/2) The Artistic and Executive Director of the New Diorama theatre talks to Heather Neill about his career, the ethos of and plans for the venue, and about The Universal Machine, their musical about Alan Turing, which is written and directed by PIT and Byrne, with music composed by Night Engine’s Dominic Brennan, and movement from Gecko Theatre’s Associate Director Rich Rusk.
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Royal Shakespeare Company special: Maria Ahberg on As You Like It
DIRECTOR’S TALK: MARIA AHBERG The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of As You Like It in conversation with RSC Events Coordinator Nicky Cox, discusses her approach to the production, including working with singer-songwriter Laura Marling, and how her cast deployed condoms and cous cous in rehearsals.
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A Thousand Shards of Glass by the Jane Packman Company
INTERVIEW: JANE PACKMAN COMPANY Director Jane Packman, writer Ben Pacey and performer Lucy Ellinson talk to Diana Damian about their surround sound action adventure show A Thousand Shards Of Glass, dystopias, political theatre, graphic novels, Bourne films and insurrectionist texts. The show is currently touring the UK.
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Blanche McIntyre gives a director’s-eye-view of The Seagull
INTERVIEW: BLANCHE MCINTYRE The director of John Donnelly’s radical new version of The Seagull, for Headlong and The Nuffield Southampton, talks to Judi Herman about her extraordinary staging, with designer Laura Hopkins, of Chekov’s great exploration of artistic creativity, unrequited love and the clashes between the generations.
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Julia Pascal and Ailin Conant: war crimes, guilt and trauma in Nineveh
INTERVIEW: JULIA PASCAL and AILIN CONANT The writer and director of Nineveh (Riverside Studios) talk to Judi Herman about Theatre Témoin’s powerful play, born of Conant’s year speaking to ex soldiers about the trauma of guilt, explored by Pascal through the Biblical story of Jonah, the prophet swallowed by a whale in punishment for not taking God’s word to Nineveh.
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Edward Petherbridge and Paul Hunter examine My Perfect Mind
INTERVIEW: EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE and PAUL HUNTER The two performers of My Perfect Mind, a Told by an Idiot show, written by Kathryn Hunter, Paul Hunter and Edward Petherbridge, and currently at the Young Vic, talk to Heather Neill about the story behind the play, Petherbridge’s stroke and how he remembered the entire role of King Lear despite his illness.