The Archive
Recordings from September 2005
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 6
- WEST END REVIEW The Philanthropist (Donmar), Romance (Almeida) and 2000 Years (National). David Benedict, Charles Spencer and Matt Wolf discuss all three. Mark Shenton hosts.
“I just cannot believe that Romance was written by the same man who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross.”
- Recording Date: 16-Sep-2005
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- INTERVIEW: DANIEL KRAMER The rising young American director talks to Philip Fisher about reviving and reshaping Hair for the Iraq War era, at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London.
“Hair is unique - it's not like doing Oklahoma! or The Woman in White. It's abstract, it's young.”
- Recording Date: 19-Sep-2005
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- INTERVIEW: EDWARD KEMP (2/2) The playwright and dramaturg continues to talk to Dominic Cavendish about adapting Gottold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise.
“It goes back to the debate about which is greater: Look Back in Anger or Waiting for Godot?”
- Recording Date: 19-Sep-2005
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- INTERVIEW: EDWARD KEMP (1/2) The playwright and dramaturg talks to Dominic Cavendish about adapting Nathan the Wise (1779), now at Hampstead Theatre.
“Faith is one of the issues that fascinates me most, it's one of the itches I have to scratch.”
- Recording Date: 19-Sep-2005
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- WEST END REVIEW Kate Bassett, David Benedict and Alastair Macaulay discuss Playing with Fire (National), Nathan the Wise (Hampstead) and Epitaph for George Dillon (Comedy Theatre). Heather Neill hosts.
“Joseph Fiennes has got more self-conscious and that's doing weird things to his stage presence.”
- Recording Date: 30-Sep-2005
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- SOAP BOX DEBATE: IS SHAKESPEARE A MILLSTONE AROUND THE NECK OF BRITISH CULTURE? Playwright Adriano Shaplin and journalist Miranda Sawyer v director Michael Boyd and playwright Kwame Kwei Armah. Rachel Halliburton hosts. Volume: loud.
“We're only now beginning to understand how much courage it took him to carve coherence from chaos.”
- Recording Date: 30-Sep-2005
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