The Archive
Recordings under the letter C
Total Number of Recordings under this letter: 10
- CALICO David Benedict, James Joyce expert Dr Finn Fordham, Heather Neill and Charles Spencer tear apart Michael Hastings' new play about Lucia Joyce and Samuel Beckett, at the Duke of Yorks.
“The problem is that he links all these interesting features of Lucia Joyce's life by using a set of theatrical cliches.”
- Recording Date: 06-Mar-2004
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- CHEKHOV SPECIAL Actor Michael Pennington talks to Heather Neill about A Jubilee for Anton Chekhov (Hampstead Theatre), a week-long event hosted by him and Chekhov specialist Rosamund Bartlett which celebrates the playwright's 150th anniversary and aims to raise money to save the White Dacha in Yalta, where he wrote some of his greatest plays.
“Chekhov married Olga Knipper without telling his sister Masha - he was full of all the usual male cowardice.”
- Recording Date: 13-Jan-2010
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- CLEAN BREAK SPECIAL Playwright Chloe Moss, author of This Wide Night (Soho and tour), and its director Lucy Morrison, head of new writing at Clean Break, talk to Aleks Sierz about their work with women prisoners.
“I wasn't quite prepared for that feeling of claustrophobia you get when the prison door closes behind you.”
- Recording Date: 01-Aug-2008
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- CLOACA Kevin Spacey's eagerly awaited directorial debut at the Old Vic with Maria Goos's Dutch hit gets a reluctant panning from Aleks Sierz, Sam Marlowe and Matt Wolf. Mark Shenton hosts.
“It is laudably bold - it's just a real shame that it's simply not the piece of writing we all hoped for.”
- Play: Cloaca
- Theatre: Old Vic
- Recording Date: 08-Oct-2004
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- COMEDY: COUNT ARTHUR STRONG The eccentric stage legend, in town with a new lecture-show, The Greatest Story Ever Told, tells Dominic Cavendish about his distinguished career.
“I could tell you a thing or two about Laurence Olivier but we don't want to go into that.”
- Play: Count Arthur Strong
- Theatre: Soho Theatre
- Recording Date: 20-Feb-2004
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- COMEDY: ROBIN SEBASTIAN The actor who plays Kenneth Williams in the first theatrical staging of Round the Horne, the cult 1960s radio series, talks to Dominic Cavendish.
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“I really do feel that I'm becoming Kenneth Williams.”
- Play: Round the Horne... Revisited!
- Theatre: The Venue
- Recording Date: 09-Jan-2004
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- CONTINENTAL DIVIDE Lecturer Richard Noble joins Rachel Halliburton, Carole Woddis and Matt Wolf to discuss David Edgar's two-play examination of US politics. Recorded live.
“There are bits of irony I agree, but the whole thing has a crushing earnestness about it.”
- Play: Continental Divide
- Theatre: Barbican Centre
- Recording Date: 26-Mar-2004
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- CRITICAL DIVERSITY: STATEMENT OF REGRET An in-depth discussion of Kwame Kwei-Armah's new play, running at the National's Cottesloe theatre; hosted by Uchenna Izundu, with Anneesh Newby Wright and Darren Thomas. Recorded at the National Theatre. First in a new 'critical diversity' initiative.
“I am very confident that there is a new breed being raised right now - a lot of the current discussions will be put on the back-burner.”
- Play: Statement of Regret
- Theatre: National Theatre, Cottesloe
- Recording Date: 28-Nov-2007
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- CULTURAL LEADERSHIP Professor Robert Hewison, a theatre critic who also teaches cultural leadership at City University, talks to Dominic Cavendish about this growing area of skills development.
“Leadership is about heart, about vision, and it's also about taking an organisation to a new place.”
- Recording Date: 10-Oct-2006
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- CYRANO DE BERGERAC David Benedict, Mark Shenton, Carole Woddis and Matt Wolf turn their noses up at the National Theatre's revival. Dominic Cavendish hosts. Recorded live.
“Is it or isn't it meant to be a big production? It doesn't really seem to be able to make up its own mind.”
- Play: Cyrano de Bergerac
- Theatre: National Theatre, Olivier
- Recording Date: 23-Apr-2004
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