Audio: Backstage
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Ita O’Brien
24th March 2026
INTERVIEW: ITA O’BRIEN Ita O’Brien has fundamentally reshaped the way we approach intimacy, consent, and storytelling on stage and screen. Bri...
Listen nowin Actors and Performers, Backstage, Ballet, Choreography, Consent, Intimacy, Intimacy coordinator, Performance, Rehearsals
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Paule Constable
12th March 2026
INTERVIEW: PAULE CONSTABLE Paule Constable is one of the most successful and influential lighting designers in the UK if not the world. She has shaped...
Listen nowin Backstage, Collaboration, Design, Design development, Discrimination, Diversity, Freelance, Lighting, Lighting Design, New talent, Nostalgia, Nurturing talent, Oliver!, Pandemic, Sustainability, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Warhorse
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David Sabel
7th February 2024
INTERVIEW: DAVID SABEL. Fifteen years ago the National Theatre had its first live cinema broadcast, Nicholas Hytner’s production of Racine’...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Backstage, Bridge Theatre, Digital Theatre, Education, Immersive Theatre, Producers, Theatre Buildings
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Jessica Hung Han Yun
11th January 2024
INTERVIEW: JESSICA HUNG HAN YUN. What makes good lighting design in theatre? Jessica Hung Han Yun explains all – and talks through some of her a...
Listen nowin Backstage, Lighting Design, Olivier Awards, Puppetry, Theatre People
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Sustainability in Theatre
11th October 2023
In April 2023 a group of leading theatre practitioners and campaigners came together for a panel talk about sustainability in theatre as part of the V...
Listen nowin Backstage, Climate Crisis, Criticism, Design, Digital Theatre, Directors, Education, Outdoors
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Giuseppe Cannas
16th April 2020
INTERVIEW: GIUSEPPE CANNAS. Sam Marlowe sits down with Giuseppe Cannas, Head of Wigs, Hair and Make-up at the National Theatre, to find out about the ...
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Interview: Tony Ramsey, master carpenter at the Globe (now Gielgud Theatre), 1961-1994, part 1
26th May 2016
INTERVIEW: TONY RAMSEY. (Part 1 of 2). At the Gielgud Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, the former master carpenter at the theatre (when it was the Globe...
Listen nowin Backstage
