The Archive
Recordings from May 2006
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 6
- WEST END REVIEW Hay Fever (Haymarket) and The Voysey Inheritance (National) assessed by Kate Bassett, Charles Spencer and Matt Wolf. David Benedict hosts.
“Judi Dench's Judith Bliss is a living paradox, all artifice and pretence and yet absolutely truthful.”
- Recording Date: 05-May-2006
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- WEST END REVIEW Phaedra (Donmar), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (National) and The Crucible (Gielgud). Kate Bassett, David Benedict, Charles Spencer and Matt Wolf talk.
“The Royal Hunt of the Sun set looked like a tequila sunrise cocktail... anthropologically inauthentic.”
- Recording Date: 05-May-2006
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- INTERVIEW: MIKE BRADWELL The artistic director of the Bush theatre in West London looks back on 10 years at the helm of London's small but mighty new writing venue with Philip Fisher. He also gives a thumbnail sketch of his 40-year career.
“Theatre has to be a nuisance but it also has to be entertaining... I like our plays to have jokes.”
- Recording Date: 05-May-2006
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- SHAKESPEARE: MEASURE FOR MEASURE Heather Neill talks to Sir Peter Hall about the play, which he is directing for the first time in the UK, at the Theatre Royal, Bath.
“It's very much a director's obsession play... it's about something very popular and very worrying: lust.”
- Recording Date: 08-May-2006
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- INTERVIEW: CHRISTOPHER SHINN The playwright discusses his latest play, Dying City, at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs - about America, Iraq and New York now - with Aleks Sierz.
“We have the Vietnam syndrome all over again, and that's what I wanted to dramatise psychologically.”
- Recording Date: 18-May-2006
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- SHAKESPEARE: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, talks to Heather Neill about the play and his first season.
“We do tend to glamorise Shakespeare's working process... at times he was just an ordinary hack.”
- Recording Date: 31-May-2006
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