The Archive
Recordings from August 2008
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 10
- CLEAN BREAK SPECIAL Playwright Chloe Moss, author of This Wide Night (Soho and tour), and its director Lucy Morrison, head of new writing at Clean Break, talk to Aleks Sierz about their work with women prisoners.
“I wasn't quite prepared for that feeling of claustrophobia you get when the prison door closes behind you.”
- Recording Date: 01-Aug-2008
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- FOCUS ON ACTING (2/2) Actor and teacher Bella Merlin, author of The Complete Stanislavski Toolkit (Nick Hern, 2007), talks to Aleks Sierz about how to recognise honest acting both on stage and on film. Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“You can watch an hour-long play and if the actors aren't listening to each other it will feel like three hours.”
- Recording Date: 08-Aug-2008
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- FOCUS ON ACTING (1/2) Actor and teacher Bella Merlin, author of The Complete Stanislavski Toolkit (Nick Hern, 2007), talks to Aleks Sierz about the importance of the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavski for performance today. Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“In the studios around the Moscow Art Theatre, there were a lot of yogic practices and spiritual things.”
- Recording Date: 08-Aug-2008
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- EDINBURGH FRINGE 2008 Mark Watson, who is appearing on the Fringe with All the Thoughts I've Had Since I Was Born at the Pleasance, talks to Philip Fisher about his life in comedy.
“I am quite a twitchy hyperactive personality - it would be impossible to lose that without ceasing to be creative, but I'm trying to balance that with not having a heart attack.”
- Recording Date: 08-Aug-2008
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- EDINBURGH FRINGE 2008 Playwright and performer Owen O'Neill talks to Philip Fisher about his Fringe hit in the making - Absolution at the Assembly Rooms on George Street; a monologue about paedophilia, the priesthood and vigilante vengeance.
“It's about the psychological journey of a man who has had a terrible experience when he was a child.”
- Recording Date: 08-Aug-2008
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- RIGHT TO REPLY Director Katie Mitchell answers criticisms of her current multimedia work, ...some trace of her (National) and Waves (National/Broadway), as well as of her 2006 production of Chekhov's The Seagull (National), and explains her working methods to Aleks Sierz. Recorded at the National Theatre.
“I began to wonder whether a neat linear narrative is the best way of communicating the experience of life.”
- Recording Date: 12-Aug-2008
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- EDINBURGH 2008 Jonathan Mills, the director of the Edinburgh International Festival, talks to Philip Fisher about this year's programme and especially its embrace of Europe's expanded frontiers, including the Polish revival of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis.
“It's a very exciting time to live in Europe, it's a challenging time - but it's certainly a time worth focusing on in the programme.”
- Recording Date: 16-Aug-2008
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- EDINBURGH 2008 REVIEW Philip Fisher joins guests Dominic Cavendish and Mark Fisher to weigh up the highs and lows of the Edinburgh Fringe (and International festival) towards the end of the final week.
“The understated quality of Charlie Victor Romeo is reflected in the other stand-out verbatim pieces.”
- Recording Date: 19-Aug-2008
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- SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET Gregory Doran, who directs David Tennant in Hamlet at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon now and in London this autumn, talks to Heather Neill about the play and his production.
“David Tennant has charisma - you want a Hamlet you're glad to see when he comes back on the stage.”
- Recording Date: 19-Aug-2008
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- EDINBURGH FRINGE 2008 Ed Bartlam and Charlie Wood, co-directors of the Underbelly venues, give their overview of 2008's underperforming Fringe - and outline what needs to be done to improve the state of play. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.
“No one ever says 'sorry' any more - there's a lot of anger out there... the Fringe was very nearly a disaster.”
- Recording Date: 22-Aug-2008
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