The Archive
Recordings from October 2006
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 6
- CULTURAL LEADERSHIP Professor Robert Hewison, a theatre critic who also teaches cultural leadership at City University, talks to Dominic Cavendish about this growing area of skills development.
“Leadership is about heart, about vision, and it's also about taking an organisation to a new place.”
- Recording Date: 10-Oct-2006
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- REGIONAL THEATRE: BASINGSTOKE John Adams, the artistic director of the Haymarket, Basingstoke, tells Dominic Cavendish about the campaign against the theatre's imminent closure.
“I'm sure there is an antagonism by the Arts Council towards the smaller regional producing theatres.”
- Recording Date: 11-Oct-2006
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- ASIAN VOICES: JATINDER VERMA (2/2) The artistic director of Tara Arts considers the failures of multiculturalism, Enoch Powell, the difficulties of faith schools, and contemplates the future. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.
“How do we talk across cultures? The one thing we have to let go of is notions of authenticity and to do that boldly.”
- Recording Date: 16-Oct-2006
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- ASIAN VOICES: JATINDER VERMA (1/2) The artistic director of Tara Arts, marking its 30th anniversary with a revival of Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro, talks to Dominic Cavendish about the production's cross-cultural rationale.
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“We often come across the cliche in the theatre: Do the text as written! But what does that actually mean?”
- Recording Date: 16-Oct-2006
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- INTERVIEW: KAY ADSHEAD The political playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her new play, Bones, and argues that theatre is a great place for poetry and dreaming, as well as issues and debates.
“It's a political piece, but it's also a psychological thriller and a really chilling ghost story.”
- Recording Date: 20-Oct-2006
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- SOAP BOX DEBATE: THEATRE IS BETTER THAN FILM Critic Michael Billington and director Rupert Goold propose the motion while film producer Nik Powell and ICA chief Ekow Eshun oppose. Rachel Halliburton and Patrick Marmion host at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Excerpt.
“'Theatre has an absolutely unique capacity for ecstacy' vs 'Cinema is really the only art form of our age'.”
- Recording Date: 27-Oct-2006
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