The Archive
Recordings from June 2008
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 9
- INTERVIEW: STEVE WATERS (2/2) The playwright tells Aleks Sierz about his running of the MPhil in Playwriting at Birmingham University, and discusses the state of new writing in Britain today.
“There is an eclecticism and diversity, and a real desire to tell quite big stories, which I find particularly refreshing.”
- Recording Date: 03-Jun-2008
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- INTERVIEW: STEVE WATERS (1/2) The playwright tells Aleks Sierz about his new play, Fast Labour (Hampstead/West Yorks Playhouse), which is about Victor, a migrant worker from the Ukraine.
“If the play is seen as being just about East Europeans in Britain, it's failed - it's about how we now live and work.”
- Recording Date: 03-Jun-2008
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- INTERVIEW: CATHERINE JOHNSON The mega-successful playwright/ creative force behind the international smash-hit Abba musical Mamma Mia! talks to Philip Fisher ahead of the show's big-screen release.
“As I read along with the lyrics I could feel the story somehow coming to life - if it hadn't been for the lyrics, the story wouldn't have that shape.”
- Recording Date: 05-Jun-2008
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- INTERVIEW: ANDY ARNOLD The artistic director of the Tron, in Glasgow, talks to Mark Brown about his ambitions for the theatre, his long stewardship of The Arches and thoughts on the Scottish theatre scene.
“It's not 'out of the woods' in terms of there being a more secure base for the development of Scottish arts. It's got a long way to go.”
- Recording Date: 09-Jun-2008
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- SHAKESPEARE: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Declan Donnellan, the artistic director of Cheek by Jowl, talks to Heather Neill in detail about his production of Troilus and Cressida - presented as part of his company's residency programme at the Barbican.
“There's a marvellous essay by Nuttall in a book called Shakespeare the Thinker, where he makes the brilliant observation that Hamlet wrote Troilus and Cressida.”
- Recording Date: 12-Jun-2008
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- INTERVIEW: MELLY STILL The award-winning director and designer talks to Heather Neill in detail about Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, currently being revived at the National Theatre with Rory Kinnear as Vindice.
“He is satirising male-assumed supremacy. You get the feeling with Middleton that he thinks justice is a woman.”
- Recording Date: 13-Jun-2008
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- INTERVIEW: MIKE ALFREDS (2/2) The legendary director talks to Aleks Sierz about his new book on acting, Different Every Night (Nick Hern), and remembers his experiences of heading Shared Experience from 1975 until 1988.
“In rehearsal, instead of asking, what is that actor doing?, you should ask, what is that character doing?”
- Recording Date: 27-Jun-2008
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- INTERVIEW: MIKE ALFREDS (1/2) The legendary director talks to Aleks Sierz about his new book on acting, Different Every Night (Nick Hern), and remembers his experiences of heading Shared Experience from 1975 until 1988.
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“Without actors, there is no theatre - the actors are what give theatre life, and my big thing is that theatre is live.”
- Recording Date: 27-Jun-2008
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- WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) invites his guests Charles Spencer (Telegraph), David Benedict (Variety) and John Nathan (Jewish Chronicle) to assess The Revenger's Tragedy (National), Afterlife (National), The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse) and Black Watch (Barbican). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Michael Grandage is now our best director it seems to me - he so rarely puts a foot wrong. Will The Chalk Garden transfer? If it doesn't there's something really sick in the West End.”
- Recording Date: 27-Jun-2008
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