The Archive
Recordings from February 2006
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 6
- WEST END REVIEW Gem of the Ocean (Tricycle Theatre), The Late Henry Moss (Almeida), The Andersen Project (Barbican), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Apollo) discussed. Mark Shenton hosts.
“Here you have to look to African-American playwrights to get a taste of the black experience.”
- Recording Date: 03-Feb-2006
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- INTERVIEW: LAURA WADE The winner of the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award, talks to Aleks Sierz about her Breathing Corpses, Colder than Here and Other Hands.
“I hadn't quite grasped that you could know things that you hadn't directly experienced.”
- Recording Date: 16-Feb-2006
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- INTERVIEW: PAM GEMS Now 80, the author of Piaf talks about her career and her latest biodrama, Mrs Pat, about the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell, to Dominic Cavendish.
“I walk out of plays nowadays. When you've been round the block, you can't be fooled anymore.”
- Recording Date: 17-Feb-2006
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- INTERVIEW: TREVOR GRIFFITHS The radical playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his past work and three short plays - Thermidor, Apricots and Camel Station - now being staged at the Theatre Museum.
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“Nearly everything I did in the 1970s was meant to resonate with stuff that was going on at the time.”
- Recording Date: 21-Feb-2006
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- INTERVIEW: JESSICA BLANK The co-writer of The Exonerated, the verbatim drama about six innocent survivors of death row, talks to Philip Fisher in London.
“A lot of wonderful actors are scheduled to come on. Brian Dennehy, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins...”
- Play: The Exonerated
- Theatre: Riverside Studios
- Recording Date: 25-Feb-2006
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- SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET Stephen Unwin, artistic director of English Touring Theatre, talks to Heather Neill about the play and his current production, starring Ed Stoppard.
“Why do we expect Shakespeare to be all things for all people at all times?”
- Play: Hamlet
- Theatre: New Ambassadors
- Recording Date: 28-Feb-2006
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