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Recordings under the letter M

Total Number of Recordings under this letter: 26

MACBETH DOUBLE Simon Russell Beale at the Almeida; Danny Sapani at Wilton's. David Benedict, Charles Spencer and Heather Neill compare and contrast. Rachel Halliburton hosts.
“I have never seen a less tense, exciting Macbeth than this... I think it was close to a disgrace.”
Play: Macbeth
Theatre: Almeida Theatre
Recording Date: 21-Jan-2005
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MARY POPPINS David Benedict, Jane Edwardes and Mark Shenton love every minute of the long-awaited Poppins premiere, the final big musical opening of the season. Matt Wolf hosts.
“It could have been an absolute disaster, but instead it's just so fantastically fluid and fluent.”
Play: Mary Poppins
Theatre: Prince Edward Theatre
Recording Date: 17-Dec-2004
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MASTERCLASS: CAN ACTING BE TAUGHT? (1/3) In conjunction with the Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass series, Geoffrey Colman, Patricia Hodge and Steve Larcher tackle the big question. David Benedict hosts. Recorded live.
“If you learn how to be a person, you can learn how to be an actor. Fundamental to that is self-knowledge.”
Recording Date: 23-Jul-2004
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MASTERCLASS: CAN ACTING BE TAUGHT? (2/3) Masterclass alumni Geoffrey Colman, Patricia Hodge and Steve Larcher continue to ponder drama teaching past and present. David Benedict hosts. Recorded live.
“If you do an audit of acting providers today, what's emerging is far more target-specific than it used to be.”
Recording Date: 23-Jul-2004
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MASTERCLASS: CAN ACTING BE TAUGHT? (3/3) Q&A: Masterclass alumni Geoffrey Colman, Patricia Hodge and Steve Larcher offer some final words of advice. David Benedict hosts. Recorded live.
“We weren't told until we'd got in there how many of us - out of the 40 - were going to survive in jobs.”
Recording Date: 23-Jul-2004
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MASTERCLASS: NANCY MECKLER The artistic director of Shared Experience offers advice as part of the Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass series. Recorded live. Excerpt.
“There weren't many role models of women directors so I didn't think people would take me seriously.”
Recording Date: 22-Apr-2005
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MEASURE FOR MEASURE David Benedict, Alastair Macaulay, Sam Marlowe and Charles Spencer assess Simon McBurney's first stab at directing Shakespeare. Dominic Cavendish hosts it live.
“What was really exciting was that it was about how desire has become fetishised in the modern world.”
Play: Measure for Measure
Theatre: National Theatre, Olivier
Recording Date: 28-May-2004
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MESSIAH Judgement day for Steven Berkoff's account of Christ's crucifixion; Rachel Halliburton and Mark Shenton disagree. Patrick Marmion mops their fevered brows.
“It just made me want to gouge my eyes out. I really thought it was excruciatingly self-indulgent.”
Play: Messiah - Scenes From a Crucifixion
Theatre: Old Vic
Recording Date: 05-Dec-2003
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with choreographer/performer Kitt Johnson and composer Sture Ericson of Denmark’s Kitt Johnson X-Act about their show, Rankefod, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the ICA Theatre. Hosted by Donald Hutera, Theatre and Dance Critic for The Times. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“I like to give myself tasks that are impossible in order to stretch myself to the absolute limits of what I can do.”
Recording Date: 22-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with Dimitri De Perrot and Martin Zimmermann of Switzerland's Zimmermann & De Perrot, about their show, Oper Opis (Someone, Something), performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Barbican Theatre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“Who cares what it is called now? Visual theatre, physical theatre? It is some of the best theatre that I see in the year.”
Recording Date: 14-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with director Adrian Schvarstein and performers Teresa San Juan Gonzalez, Emiliano Sanchez, Cristina Sole, Joan Catala, Petra Rochau, Rebecca Macauley, Nigel Haywood and Angel Estevez of Spain’s Circus Klezmer, which performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“Street theatre, and circus, is more alive than opera but you make less money - we come from lots of different places and schools.”
Recording Date: 24-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with director Dimitry Aryupin of Russia’s BlackSkyWhite about their show, USSR Was Here, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the ICA. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“I'm not really fond of the regime of the former USSR, but I was born there so the best time of my life was spent there.”
Recording Date: 19-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with director Leandre Ribera and performers Emma Norin, Lina Johansson and Silvia Fratelli of Mimbre about their show, Until Now, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“We work really well together as friends, and we complement each other very well, and so it was quite natural for us to work together as three women.”
Recording Date: 26-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with director Patrick Bonté, director/performer Nicole Mossoux and composer Thomas Turine of Belgium's Mossoux-Bonté, about their show, Kefar Nahum, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Barbican. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“Through improvisation we match up the sound to the object, and surprise and not knowing is the key.”
Recording Date: 21-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with director Toby Sedgwick, producer Alison King, and performers Charlotte Mooney, Alex Harvey, Tina Koch, Paul Evans, Stefano Di Renzo, and Phil Supple (lighting designer), of Ockham's Razor, about their show, The Mill, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Linbury Studio. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“We played around with the stage machinery, and we came up with the idea of the big wheel, a clear metaphor for work.”
Recording Date: 20-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with directors Jean-Pierre Larroche and Marion Lefevbre of France’s Les Ateliers du Spectacle about their show, A Distances, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the ICA Theatre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“There is no reason why Marion is dressed as an 18th-century page, but it pleases me, and it is a wink to the audience.”
Recording Date: 29-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with performer Jeanne Mordoj of France’s Comagnie Bal/Jeanne Mordoj about her show, Eloge Du Poil, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Barbican. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian: variable quality.
“The beard provoked existential questions: I wondered what would happen if a normal woman went to a bar wearing a beard.”
Recording Date: 28-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with performers Daniel Blanga Gubbay and Paola Villani of Italy’s Pathosformel about their show, Timidity of Bones, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the ICA Theatre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“What we wanted to do was to hide behind the screen, to make a gift to the audience's imagination and to surprise them with a sight of our bodies.”
Recording Date: 25-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with performers Jonathan Guichard and Fnico Feldmann of France’s Compagnie Ieto about their show, Ieto, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“We created the benches first to see how interesting they would be to use, and second to get the maximum comedy from them.”
Recording Date: 30-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with performers Julien Clément, Denis Fargeton, Nicholas Mathis and Aline Piboule (music) of France’s Collectif Petit Travers, about their show, Pan Pot, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“Sometimes we started with the music, and sometimes with silence, using just the rhythm of the juggling to guide us.”
Recording Date: 22-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with performers Renana Raz and Yuval Fingerman of Israel’s Etgar Theatre about their show, Eshet, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“To work with a biblical text is very challenging because it is very concise and economic so you have to fill in the gaps with your imagination.”
Recording Date: 18-Jan-2010
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MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with performers Xavier Bouvier and Benoit Devos of Belgium's Okidok, about their show, Slips Inside, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian.
“We met at school, and we were both bad at soccer so we both went to a circus workshop during the holidays.”
Recording Date: 23-Jan-2010
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MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA Eugene O'Neill's epic is revived at the National. Dominic Cavendish asks David Benedict, Rhoda Koenig and Mark Shenton the simple question: why the fuss?
“It's overwrought and overwritten, but it's staged with such conviction that it makes for a powerful evening.”
Play: Mourning Becomes Electra
Theatre: National Theatre, Lyttelton
Recording Date: 05-Dec-2003
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING There's little to cheer and much to irk Kate Bassett, David Benedict and Carole Woddis in the all-female revival at Shakespeare's Globe. Heather Neill hosts.
“Josie Lawrence was amazingly awful - I wouldn't have given her the part in a school production.”
Play: Much Ado About Nothing
Theatre: Shakespeare's Globe
Recording Date: 11-Jun-2004
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MUSICALS: BRIDEWELL THEATRE The Bridewell Theatre faces imminent closure. Artistic director Carol Metcalfe and executive director Tim Sawers appeal for support.
“It won't function as a theatre beyond March 2004 unless we can find some money to move forward.”
Recording Date: 19-Nov-2003
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MUSICALS: MAURY YESTON The composer who contributed additional music and lyrics to Grand Hotel talks about his involvement in-depth to David Benedict.
“In many ways, the Donmar version is far more electric than the same show in a larger venue.”
Play: Grand Hotel
Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
Recording Date: 01-Dec-2004
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