The Archive
Recordings from July 2005
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 4
- TALKBACK ON TERROR Rising playwright Dennis Kelly talks to Aleks Sierz about Osama the Hero and his new one, After the End, set in the wake of a terrorist nuclear strike. Expletives not deleted.
“It's very difficult from the political realities of the 1980s - you knew where you stood. Now we're just confused.”
- Recording Date: 08-Jul-2005
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- TALKBACK ON TERROR Ian Brown, artistic director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds gives Dominic Cavendish his thoughts on homegrown extremism and the way forward for theatre.
“I'm very fearful at the moment, the whole thing could just catch fire very easily round here.”
- Recording Date: 13-Jul-2005
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- TALKBACK ON TERROR The Anglo-Kuwaiti director and writer Sulayman al-Bassam talks to Dominic Cavendish about bringing a Middle Eastern slant to Shakespeare and confronting fanaticism.
“We've got to expand our education process, and to continue to educate the eye of the citizen.”
- Recording Date: 14-Jul-2005
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- TALKBACK ON TERROR Mehmet Ergen, artistic director of the Arcola Theatre, Dalston, on creating theatre for a multicultural London in the wake of the 7/7 attacks. Dominic Cavendish asks the questions.
“The war began and it's here to stay... and while we're doing theatre we simply can't ignore it.”
- Recording Date: 15-Jul-2005
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