The Archive
Recordings from December 2005
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 7
- ROYAL COURT SPECIAL (4/4) Bill Gaskill, Max Stafford-Clark and Ian Rickson conclude their insiders' assessment of the Court's 50-year success story. Aleks Sierz hosts. Recorded live.
“We used to stay up all night and wait for the notices - as if we were on Broadway. ”
- Recording Date: 01-Dec-2005
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- ROYAL COURT SPECIAL (3/4) Bill Gaskill, Max Stafford-Clark and Ian Rickson field questions about the Court's past, present, legacy and future. Aleks Sierz hosts. Recorded live.
“The Court places the writer at the centre in a way that no other theatre does. It's worth fighting for.”
- Recording Date: 01-Dec-2005
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- ROYAL COURT SPECIAL (2/4) Bill Gaskill, Max Stafford-Clark and Ian Rickson reflect on their experiences as artistic directors and on differing development processes. Aleks Sierz hosts. Recorded live.
“Dramatic changes were happening in women's lives... and Caryl Churchill was a very important model.”
- Recording Date: 01-Dec-2005
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- ROYAL COURT SPECIAL (1/4) Aleks Sierz gets artistic directors Bill Gaskill, Max Stafford-Clark and Ian Rickson to look back and ponder the task of running Britain's new writing powerhouse. Recorded live.
“Regime change is always very healthy because you get new energy, and the Court is a narrative.”
- Recording Date: 01-Dec-2005
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- WEST END REVIEW Edward Scissorhands (Sadler's Wells), Once in a Lifetime (National), and Sunday in the Park with George (Menier) discussed by David Benedict, Alastair Macaulay, Mark Shenton and Matt Wolf.
“You think: Matthew Bourne does this so much better - why isn't it as strong as it could be?”
- Recording Date: 16-Dec-2005
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- REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2005 David Benedict gets Jane Edwardes, Alastair Macaulay, Mark Shenton and Matt Wolf to nominate the highs and lows of the theatre year.
“No secret ballots, no horse-trading just the unfettered passions of five of London's finest.”
- Recording Date: 17-Dec-2005
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- NEW YORK SPECIAL The actor John Patrick Shanley, who's currently wowing Broadway with Doubt, talks to Philip Fisher in New York about his work in film and his passion for theatre.
“I was never particularly interested in Broadway as a venue, but when Doubt moved there it improved.”
- Recording Date: 31-Dec-2005
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