Audio tagged with: Greek tragedy
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Director Nick Bagnall introduces Lily Cole as Helen and The Last Days of Troy
1st July 2014
INTERVIEW: NICK BAGNALL The director of Simon Armitage’s new play, the Last Days of Troy, performed at Manchester Royal Exchange and Shakespeare’s...
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A new radical spin on The Odyssey in Oxford
7th April 2012
INTERVIEW: MADELEINE HYLAND and JAMES ERSKINE A performer with The Factory and the executive director of Creation Theatre talk to Ella Parry-Davies ab...
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Samuel West talks about TS Eliot
11th November 2008
INTERVIEW: SAMUEL WEST Heather Neill talks to the actor and director about his career, his passion for verse drama and his approach to playing the par...
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Declan Donnellan on Troilus and Cressida
12th June 2008
SHAKESPEARE: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Declan Donnellan, the artistic director of Cheek by Jowl, talks to Heather Neill in detail about his production of T...
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Review of Hecuba
15th April 2005
HECUBA David Benedict, Patrick Marmion and Charles Spencer bewail this new RSC version by Tony Harrison starring Vanessa Redgrave. Heather Neill presi...
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Review of Hecuba
17th September 2004
HECUBA Nice translation, shame about the set... David Benedict, Jane Edwardes and Heather Neill mull over a new spin on a Euripides classic. Mark Shen...
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Playwright Frank McGuinness explores Greek tragedy
13th August 2004
INTERVIEW: FRANK McGUINNESS The Irish playwright talks about his adaptation of Euripides' Hecuba - the successor to his acclaimed rendition of Electr...
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Review of Iphigenia at Aulis
25th June 2004
IPHIGENIA AT AULIS Euripides - as directed by Katie Mitchell. David Benedict, Heather Neill and Charles Spencer pass judgment. Kate Bassett hosts. Rec...
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Director Erica Whyman on Electra
17th October 2003
ELECTRA Erica Whyman, artistic director of the Gate, Notting Hill, tells Rachel Halliburton why ancient Greek tragedies chime with our contemporary ti...
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