The Archive
Recordings from February 2010
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 6
- INTERVIEW: ROGER REES The Welsh actor, who has made his return to the London stage as Vladimir in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Haymarket) opposite Ian McKellen's Estragon, talks about the role, his days at the RSC and his more recent work. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.
“I think Vladimir gets very near the point of giving into the anarchy. He holds himself back but he knows it's there and he's changed forever.”
- Recording Date: 11-Feb-2010
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- SPANISH GOLDEN AGE SPECIAL Director Simon Evans talks to Heather Neill about his production of Lope De Vega's Madness in Valencia (which has just transferred to the Trafalgar Studios from the White Bear), a revival of a classic from 16th-century Spain by a contemporary of Shakespeare. Recorded at the Trafalgar Studios.
“The treatment of insanity was very barbaric at the time. But madness was also equated with love, which gives it a warm sheen.”
- Recording Date: 12-Feb-2010
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- NEW WRITING SPECIAL Lecture entitled Blasted and After: New Writing in British Theatre Today, about in-yer-face theatre in 1990s and its aftermath, given by Aleks Sierz (Visiting Research Fellow, Rose Bruford College) at a meeting of the Society for Theatre Research, at the Art Workers Guild, London. Expletives not deleted.
“It is worth noting that British theatre in the Noughties had little to say about some of the topics that people actually argue about.”
- Recording Date: 16-Feb-2010
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- WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick), Really Old, Like Forty-Five (Cottesloe, RNT), Peter Brook's 11 and 12 (Barbican), Serenading Louie (Donmar); plus the transfers of Enron (Noel Coward) and Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“One very odd thing about 'Really Old, Like 45' is that it's the third play at the National in the last 18 months to have a scene set at the National...”
- Recording Date: 19-Feb-2010
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- WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss Judi Dench as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Measure for Measure (Almeida), An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Crucible), Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith), The Caretaker (Trafalgar Studios) and Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“I don't think you can say Peter Hall's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is banal, that's absurd! I think it's very true to the spirit of the play...”
- Recording Date: 19-Feb-2010
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- INTERVIEW: IAN RICKSON The director of Jez Butterworth's smash-hit, mythic extravaganza Jerusalem (currently at the Apollo Theatre) talks to Aleks Sierz about his long relationship with the work of this playwright, including The Night Heron, The Winterling and Parlour Song. Recorded at the Young Vic.
“Jez accords articulacy and eloquence to each and every character of his plays, regardless of class, gender or empowerment.”
- Recording Date: 22-Feb-2010
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