The Archive
Recordings from January 2007
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 4
- NEW YORK SPECIAL Philip Fisher talks to Dan Wackerman, the artistic director of New York's Peccadillo theater company, responsible for the hit revival of 1930s screwball comedy Room Service at the Bank Street Theater, NYC.
“It's about a producer who's holed up in a hotel with 19 starving actors - taking advantage of the hotel's room service.”
- Recording Date: 04-Jan-2007
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- INTERVIEW: PAUL ROBINSON and TIM ROSEMAN The new artistic directors of Theatre 503 in Battersea talk to Culture Wars critic Andrew Haydon about life on the London fringe, and how the search for new political plays might lead to a questioning of the liberal consensus.
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“We don't want dogmatic, preachy or worthy agitprop, and we don't want something we've all seen before.”
- Recording Date: 19-Jan-2007
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- INTERVIEW: DAVID JUBB The artistic director of BAC - the Battersea Arts Centre - talks to Dominic Cavendish about the dire threat of closure hanging over this south London creative powerhouse in the wake of a proposed funding cut by Wandsworth Council.
“Because we're in this funny old, faintly awkward Victorian town hall, it's created this enormous energy.”
- Recording Date: 23-Jan-2007
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- THE DAVID BENEDICT EXPERIENCE Ian Rickson's The Seagull (Royal Court) and Deborah Warner's Happy Days (National) reviewed, plus discussion of the upcoming Olivier Awards and what to look out for in February. Critics Kate Bassett and Michael Coveney join David Benedict.
“Mackenzie Crook looks the part, all wired and manic, but his acting was quite flat and took a while to lift off.”
- Recording Date: 29-Jan-2007
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