The Archive
Recordings from July 2009
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 13
- INTERVIEW: CLARE HIGGINS Currently starring as Countess Rossillion in All's Well That Ends Well at the National, the award-winning actress tells Philip Fisher about her life and work, including Vincent in Brixton, and reveals her designs on Macbeth. Recorded at the National Theatre.
“I'm really gobsmacked about how fortunate I am. Every time you do a play you think that 'nobody will ever ask me again'. Judi Dench once told me that she still feels that.”
- Recording Date: 01-Jul-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Hillingdon, by Gene David Kirk. Cast: Richard Attlee (Man). Directed by Paul Robinson. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section. Content warning: explicit material.
“My head is going to burst, my chest is going to burst. Oh no, he's coming over. Gosh!... Who says 'gosh'?”
- Recording Date: 03-Jul-2009
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- INTERVIEW: DAVID EDGAR The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his new book, How Plays Work (Nick Hern), which discusses the role of the audience and the importance of genre, as well as examining the elements that make up a piece of written theatre. Plus: the insider view of the All Together Now? British Theatre after Multiculturalism conference at Warwick University.
“Knowledge should never be damaging. The book is like a toolkit - and how you use the tools is up to you.”
- Recording Date: 06-Jul-2009
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- FOCUS ON YOUTH THEATRE Heather Neill talks to three contributors to this year's NT Connections series, the National Theatre's annual festival of new writing devoted to young people: Nick Drake (Success), Georgia Fitch (Dirty Dirty Princess) and Lisa McGee (The Heights) compare notes.
“Writing for this age group is both liberating and also a challenge - there can sometimes be difficulties about language too.”
- Recording Date: 07-Jul-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Park Royal, by Effie Woods (Time Out competition winner). Cast: Gillian Mackie (Tannoy); Toni Kanal (Anna); Brooke Hender (Paul); Andy Dowbiggin (Billy). Directed by Claudia Jazz Haley. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Broadcast assistant: Michelle Gilmore. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Let's sit down on this bench. I'd just like to sit on this bench. You can sit with me if you like...”
- Recording Date: 10-Jul-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Knightsbridge, by Natalia Savvides (Time Out competition winner). Cast: Viv Parry (Joan); Henry Devas (Peregrine); Jermaine Dominique (Raz). Directed by Gene David Kirk. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“This is my right. This is my freedom, innit, as a citizen of this city. I can stand outside Harrods and stop people like you getting inside.”
- Recording Date: 17-Jul-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Sudbury Hill, by Patti Hogan Coyle. Cast: David Carlyle (Him/ Drunk/ Station Attendant); Hannah Pierce (Her); Roy Macready (Man on Train); Toni Kanal (Woman on Train). Directed by Hanna Wolf. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section. Content warning: explicit material.
“Down this way... See there's the place, hidden.' 'It's locked. It says: Danger of Death.' 'I'm in danger of death, you're killing me...”
- Recording Date: 24-Jul-2009
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- FOCUS ON THEATRE BUILDINGS Mhora Samuel, Director of the Theatres Trust, talks to Aleks Sierz about this organisation's work in promoting the value of theatre buildings and championing their future. Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Barbara Follett, the culture minister, raised awareness about facilities in the West End, although some theatres have recently improved.”
- Recording Date: 24-Jul-2009
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- WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss Jerusalem (Royal Court), The Mountaintop (Trafalgar Studios) and Sister Act (Palladium). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Mark Rylance should get the best actor award for Jerusalem and, if not, it will only be because Sam West gets it for Enron.”
- Recording Date: 24-Jul-2009
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- WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss Phedre (National), The Cherry Orchard and The Winter Tale's (Old Vic) and Hamlet (Wyndhams). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Phedre is a play that I hitherto admired rather than enjoyed, and yet I loved this magisterial production by Nick Hytner.”
- Recording Date: 24-Jul-2009
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- INTERVIEW: STELLA FEEHILY (2/2) The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her 2003 debut, Duck (Out of Joint/Royal Court), a play about two teenagers in Dublin, and about her plans for the future. Recorded at Out of Joint, London.
“It is about young women finding their power in the world, whether through education or through sex.”
- Recording Date: 29-Jul-2009
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- INTERVIEW: STELLA FEEHILY (1/2) The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her current play, Dreams of Violence (Out of Joint/Soho), a comedy about family life and the politics of the banking crisis, directed by Max Stafford-Clark. Recorded at Out of Joint, London.
“The only thing that I think about when I am writing is that I want to surprise myself as much as I want to surprise the audience.”
- Recording Date: 29-Jul-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Heathrow Terminal Five, by Simon Stephens. Cast: Vicky Kerr (Clare); Tom Lorcan (James). Directed by Paul Robinson. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Look, you've got yourself all agitated, haven't you? You have, I know you have. I can tell just to look at you. You always look like that. And you know how it helps you, to be tested...”
- Recording Date: 31-Jul-2009
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