The Archive
Recordings under the letter L
Total Number of Recordings under this letter: 8
- LIFEGAME Jane Edwardes, Heather Neill and Mark Shenton show differing degrees of enthusiasm for the improvisation show that turns life into art on-the-spot. Dominic Cavendish hosts.
“Even ordinary lives have extraordinary moments and that's exactly what this show is all about.”
- Play: Lifegame
- Theatre: National Theatre, Cottesloe
- Recording Date: 07-May-2004
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- LIFT 2004 Romeo Castellucci, the controversial Italian director, talks to Rachel Halliburton about his European-wide exploration of modern tragedy, one of the highpoints of the festival. Bilingual discussion.
“There is the possibility of a different world which only lasts for the time of the performance.”
- Play: Tragedia Endogonidia
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- Recording Date: 16-Mar-2004
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- LIFT 2004 The co-founders of the London International Festival of Theatre, Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal, share their memories of the past 25 years with Dominic Cavendish.
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“We funded ourselves by being waitresses in the evening. There was a great deal of bluff involved.”
- Recording Date: 05-Apr-2004
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- LIFT 2004 The co-founders of the London International Festival of Theatre, Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal, talk to Rachel Halliburton about the current five-year 'LIFT Enquiry'.
“Back to basics: we just wanted to question what theatre is, and what theatre can be.”
- Recording Date: 11-Mar-2004
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- LIFT ENQUIRY 2004 In the first of a series of testimonies about what theatre means, Olu Alake, Senior Officer for Cultural Diversity, Arts Council England, takes the stand.
“Theatre is life in West Africa, especially in the Nigerian towns where I spent my formative years.”
- Recording Date: 28-May-2004
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- LIFT ENQUIRY 2004 Michael Boyd, artistic director of the RSC, gives a 50-second resume of what theatre means to him; part of the London International Festival of Theatre.
“We call ourselves ice sculptors in the theatre because our work only lives on in people's memories.”
- Recording Date: 28-May-2004
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- LIFT ENQUIRY 2004 The writer and broadcaster Shyama Perera responds to the question posed by the London International Festival of Theatre: 'What is theatre to you?'
“I grew up with no expectation that drama had relevance beyond spectacle.”
- Recording Date: 01-Jun-2004
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- LOYAL WOMEN Gary Mitchell's new Royal Court play about Belfast's diehard women loyalists gets assessed by David Benedict, Jane Edwardes and Aleks Sierz. Patrick Marmion hosts.
“Gary Mitchell's problem is that he's really great at plots, but he tends to sacrifice depth of character.”
- Play: Loyal Women
- Theatre: Royal Court Downstairs
- Recording Date: 14-Nov-2003
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