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Shakespeare’s First Acts series: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Shakespeare’s First Acts: Love’s Labour’s Lost. Barrie Rutter, artistic director of Northern Broadsides, talks about some of the challenges and the pleasures of the first act of Love’s Labour’s Lost, as part of theatrevoice’s new series, for Olympics year 2012, looking at the beginning of each of Shakespeare’s plays.
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Sound & Fury talk about their latest show, Going Dark
Interview: Mark Espiner and Dan Jones, two of the three co-directors of the pioneering company Sound & Fury talk about their follow-up to their hit show “Kursk” – a new piece about astronomy, eyesight and the way we perceive the world: “Going Dark”, on tour from Wed 8 February, beginning in Plymouth and coming to the Young Vic from 6 March. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.
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Playwright Howard Brenton on a revival of his Bloody Poetry
INTERVIEW: HOWARD BRENTON The playwright and screen writer talks to Aleks Sierz about Bloody Poetry, his 1984 play about Shelley, Byron and the loves of these Romantic poets, which is currently being revived by Tom Littler at the Jermyn Street Theatre in the West End.
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London International Mime Festival: No Fit State Circus
MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with No Fit State Circus hosted by Dick McCaw about their show, Mundo Paralelo, performed as part of the 2012 London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre.
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Playwright Ishy Din and director Iqbal Khan get Snookered
ASIAN VOICES: ISHY DIN and IQBAL KHAN The playwright and director of Snookered (Oldham Coliseum Theatre/Bush Theatre) talk to Suman Bhuchar about the genesis and staging of this new play, produced by Tamasha, which examines British Muslim life today.
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London International Mime Festival: Theatre Ad Infinitum
MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with Theatre Ad Infinitum hosted by Mike Tweddle with performers George Mann, Deborah Pugh, Kim Heron and Nir Paldi about their show, Translunar Paradise, performed as part of the 2012 London International Mime Festival, at the Barbican Pit.
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London International Mime Festival: Blind Summit
MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with Blind Summit hosted by Dorothy Max Prior with performers Mark Down, Nick Barnes, Sean Garratt, Sarah Calver and Ivan Thorley about their show, The Table, performed as part of the 2012 London International Mime Festival, at the Soho Theatre.
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Playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan explores love and death
INTERVIEW: ABI MORGAN The playwright and writer of the film The Iron Lady talks to Aleks Sierz about Lovesong, her latest collaboration with Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett of Frantic Assembly, currently at the Lyric Hammersmith as part of a nationwide tour.
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Award-winning playwright Joe Penhall discusses Haunted Child
INTERVIEW: JOE PENHALL The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest Royal Court play, Haunted Child, which is about a man who suddenly walks out on his wife and child and then returns as a cult member, and about his upcoming play, Birthday, which will be at the same venue in June.
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Co-authors of the powerful new play Fog speak out
INTERVIEW: TASH FAIRBANKS and TOBY WHARTON The co-authors of Fog, which is currently playing at the Finborough Theatre, tell Aleks Sierz about their unique cross-generational collaboration, which produced a powerful and disturbing drama, in which Wharton also plays the lead.