The Archive
Recordings from December 2009
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 11
- Urban Scrawl: Oakwood, a musical by Nathan Taylor. Cast: Stephen Weller (Him); Eloise Secker (Her); Emma Gates (Girl in Bar); Veronica Lewis (Maddie); Anton Thompson (Bouncer 1); Oliver Mott (Bouncer 2/Man in Bar). Directed by David Blount; Musical Director: Nathan Taylor. Assistant Musical Director: Jo Yoxall. Musical Supervisor/Guitar: David Hewson; Bass: Mike Slader; Acoustic Guitar: Malin Mork. Technical recording manager: Elayne Hall. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Sound engineer: Matt Knowles. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“It's only 15 stops and then the world's my oyster! I'm walking tall and nobody can ever bring me down. Look at me, I guarantee I will have the pick of this town.”
- Recording Date: 04-Dec-2009
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- INTERVIEW: MICHAEL WYNNE The playwright chats to Aleks Sierz about his latest comedy, The Priory (Royal Court), which depicts a group of old friends who gather to celebrate New Year's Eve, and about one of his previous hits, The People Are Friendly (2002). Recorded at the Royal Court.
“It's about the thirtysomething generation who used to party a lot and who now see themselves as still being very young.”
- Recording Date: 09-Dec-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Heathrow Terminal Four, a musical by Julian Woolford (play, book and lyrics) and Richard John (music). Cast: Gemma Sutton (Jackie); Dougal Irvine (Ahmed). Directed by Lisa Spirling. Musical Director: Richard John. Musical Supervisor: David Hewson. Bass: Mike Slader. Technical recording manager: Tom Cassidy. Studio manager: Matt Knowles. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Do you believe in 77 virgins, rewarding you for urgently purging the earth of infidels?”
- Recording Date: 11-Dec-2009
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- INTERVIEW: MICHAEL PUNTER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his sensational ghost story, Darker Shores (Hampstead), a seasonal Victorian tale featuring spiritualism, seances and haunting, which raises questions about belief and about Darwinism. Recorded at Hampstead Theatre.
“There are still 300 spiritualist churches in the UK - it was a bizarre movement sparked off by a pair of sisters in New York state.”
- Recording Date: 16-Dec-2009
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- FOCUS ON VIDEO Jill Evans, producer of the V&A's National Video Archive of Performance, and Kate Dorney, curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance, tell Aleks Sierz about the V&A's extensive collection of video recordings of theatre performances, and discuss the hazards as well as the joys of creating them.
“Technology is changing all the time and getting better - as of yesterday, we've discovered a way of making excellent quality small-scale recordings.”
- Recording Date: 17-Dec-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Cockfosters, by Alexis Zegerman. Cast: Nicholas Goode (Alex); Johna Ash (Whitey); Hayley Michaels (Tube Announcer); Ruth Jennings (Pregnant Woman); Philip Fox (Mad Hatter); Josh Alward (Policeman and Big Issue Seller). Directed by Teunkie van der Sluijs. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Michael Jackson spotted in Bromley shopping centre - the FBI is currently reviewing security tapes which allegedly show the singer exiting the Bromley branch of Marks and Spencer.”
- Recording Date: 18-Dec-2009
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- WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss the latest West End and off-West End openings: Red (Donmar Warehouse), The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre), Rope (Almeida), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello) and Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory). Recorded at the V&A.
“We really haven't had a theatrical event like this in London in quite a while - where the player is the thing and not the play.”
- Recording Date: 18-Dec-2009
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- REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2009 Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) look back over the year in British theatre and select the highs and the lows, the sought-after golden geese and the wringable turkeys. Recorded at the V&A. Expletives not deleted.
“Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem is a play out there on its own. It tackles present-day rural England, a subject more or less entirely forgotten by contemporary dramatists.”
- Recording Date: 24-Dec-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Baron's Court, a sound play by Maura Korhonen and Malin Mork. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Please report any unattended items to a member of staff or a police officer. For your safety and security CCTV is in use throughout London Underground - thank you.”
- Recording Date: 25-Dec-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Boston Manor, by Samuel Adamson. Cast: Nina Sosanya (Alison), Sian Phillips (Mother), Tom Mothersdale (London Man), Gillian Mackie (Tannoy). Directed by Tim Roseman. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Broadcast assistant: Michelle Gilmore. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“That man who just asked about your passport is fascinated by you. No, no, no don't look, don't look, don't look not yet. Now, look! Look at his repulsive, elephantine, rapist hands!”
- Recording Date: 31-Dec-2009
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- NEW YORK SPECIAL Scott Morfee, Artistic Director of Off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre, talks to Philip Fisher about his latest long-running hit, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, running a theatre during the recession and his Chicago connections, including Tracy Letts and David Cromer.
“About 65 percent of our audience is actually from the metro New York area and so we don't rely as heavily on tourists as Broadway does.”
- Recording Date: 31-Dec-2009
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