The Archive
Recordings from July 2007
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 5
- EDINBURGH FRINGE 2007 What's in store for audiences this year, and what's it like for the creatives who make it happen? Aleks Sierz assesses the state of the fringe with performer and Perrier winner Will Adamsdale; Anthony Alderson, director of the Pleasance; Culture Wars critic Andrew Haydon; and Kate McGrath, producer of Fuel.
- 8 recommendations
“It's all about fun in the end, isn't it? Or about changing the world. Or maybe about both.”
- Recording Date: 04-Jul-2007
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- INTERVIEW: JOHN GODBER Cited as the third most performed British playwright after Shakespeare and Ayckbourn, he talks to Dominic Cavendish about the 30th anniversary revival of his mega-hit Bouncers, the past and future of Hull Truck Theatre, and the recent floods.
- 5 recommendations
“If there is that sense of visceral adrenalin, the theatre can say to the club next door, we have as much right to be here as you.”
- Recording Date: 17-Jul-2007
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- TAKE FLIGHT SPECIAL (2/2) The new musical about pioneer aviators by Richard Maltby and David Shire, with book by John Weidman, receives its world premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory this month. Here is a sample of three numbers, recorded in concert: Equilibrium; Papua; Before the Dawn.
- 13 recommendations | 2 comments
“Nice to know that while we argue here, some college grad genius in Europe is getting there first.”
- Recording Date: 18-Jul-2007
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- TAKE FLIGHT SPECIAL (1/2) A brief roundtable chat involving the composer David Shire, Menier Chocolate Factory producer David Babani, director Sam Buntrock and designer David Farley about the forthcoming world premiere of Take Flight.
- 3 recommendations | 1 comment
“When we fall in love we say we're floating on air, it seems there's a universal human urge to overcome gravity.”
- Recording Date: 18-Jul-2007
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- INTERVIEW: DAVID GREIG The Scottish playwright talks to Dominic Cavendish about Damascus (Traverse), one of his three Edinburgh Festival plays this year, and about his other explorations of the imaginary borderlands between fact and fiction.
- 13 recommendations | 1 comment
“We have a problem with authenticity in British theatre. We value writing about what we know so we distrust writing about foreign characters.”
- Recording Date: 30-Jul-2007
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