The Archive
Recordings from October 2007
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 8
- SHAKESPEARE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Nicholas Hytner, artistic director of the National Theatre talks to Heather Neill in detail about Much Ado About Nothing, his new revival starring Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanamaker.
“In the Elizabethan imagination you could come back from a quick skirmish and do a comedy... the play is a haven, a party.”
- Recording Date: 05-Oct-2007
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- INTERVIEW: JANIE DEE The actress, currently playing Joy Gresham to Charles Dance's CS Lewis in William Nicholson's Shadowlands at Wyndham's Theatre, talks frankly to Philip Fisher about the challenge of the role - and her Olivier-winning career.
“I sought a singing teacher in Rome, learnt to sing - and came back to England with a 'voice'. ”
- Recording Date: 11-Oct-2007
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- THE MARK SHENTON WEST END SPECIAL This month, Mark Shenton and his guests - critics Charles Spencer and Matt Wolf plus producers Sonia Friedman and Nick Frankfort - examine the future of straight plays in London's Theatreland, and compare the state of the West End with that of Broadway.
“New York is more fertile at the moment - the audience is more eager, there's a bigger buzz and there's more money.”
- Recording Date: 12-Oct-2007
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- REGIONAL THEATRE: COLCHESTER Dee Evans, the artistic director of the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, talks briefly about an all-male Coriolanus and an all-female Julius Caesar, running in rep there this autumn. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.
“There has to be this type of theatre alongside the lighter, more jolly stuff - otherwise I don't want to do it.”
- Recording Date: 19-Oct-2007
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- INTERVIEW: DAVID HAIG The actor chats to Philip Fisher about his role as Pinchwife in William Wycherley's Restoration comedy, The Country Wife, as well as upcoming productions in Jonathan Kent's new company at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
“The Country Wife is the only piece of drama in the English language which is exclusively about sex.”
- Recording Date: 19-Oct-2007
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- INTERVIEW: ROBERT TANITCH The critic and writer talks to Philip Fisher about his latest, lavishly illustrated book, The London Stage in the Twentieth Century (Haus Publishing), his other publications about the stars of screen and stage, and his own plays.
“I sometimes chose to quote two critics who disagreed - especially when they represented two extremes.”
- Recording Date: 23-Oct-2007
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- SHAKESPEARE: MACBETH Rupert Goold, artistic director of Headlong theatre company, talks to Heather Neill about his highly praised Macbeth, which stars Patrick Stewart and has transferred from Chichester to the Gielgud Theatre.
“The play is about masculinity: the trope of an older man corrupted by a young harridan is something we all plug into.”
- Recording Date: 25-Oct-2007
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- INTERVIEW: ADRIAN KOHLER The designer who created the horses in the National Theatre's spectacular adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse speaks to Heather Neill about the show and his work for Handspring, the South African puppetry company.
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“The look of the horses is determined by the movement room of two puppeteers, plus flexibility and expressiveness.”
- Recording Date: 25-Oct-2007
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