The Archive
Recordings from September 2006
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 9
- THE SINGER AND THE SONG (2/2) A home live art discussion involving Orlando Gough, Christopher Green and Kazuko Hohki. Critic Louise Gray hosts. Excerpts.
“One of the Japanese papers once said that Frank Chickens were a national embarrassment... ”
- Recording Date: 08-Sep-2006
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- THE SINGER AND THE SONG (1/2) A home live art discussion involving Orlando Gough, Christopher Green and Kazuko Hohki. Critic Louise Gray hosts. Excerpts.
“There really is a slight sense of panic about the fact that we don't sing together anymore.”
- Recording Date: 08-Sep-2006
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- REGIONAL THEATRE: SALISBURY Joanna Read, the artistic director of the Salisbury Playhouse, talks to Dominic Cavendish about running a regional rep and the musical Two Cities.
“My intention was always to work in regional theatre, it's where the best work is done.”
- Recording Date: 11-Sep-2006
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- BLACK VOICES: MICHAEL BUFFONG Steven Luckie interviews the director about his To Kill a Mockingbird at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
“The way I've developed my career is to literally go and knock on doors and keep on knocking.”
- Recording Date: 12-Sep-2006
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- INTERVIEW: COLIN TEEVAN The playwright talks to Dominic Cavendish about his controversial new Iraq play, How Many Miles to Basra?, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds.
“I don't think a single one of the last 10 pieces I've had on would have been produced in Ireland.”
- Recording Date: 14-Sep-2006
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- ASIAN VOICES: AMIT SHARMA The Actor, currently starring in Tamasha's touring production of The Trouble with Asian Men, talks to Dominic Cavendish about the trouble with stereotypes.
“To say, as one review does, that Asian men want to blow themselves up is disappointing and offensive.”
- Recording Date: 20-Sep-2006
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- INTERVIEW: SIMON RUSSELL BEALE The ever-popular British actor chats to Philip Fisher about his early career, appearing as Face in The Alchemist and starring in Spamalot.
“I've come to regard the National as my second home: it's the most amazingly creative place.”
- Recording Date: 25-Sep-2006
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- INTERVIEW: NICHOLAS HYTNER The National’s artistic director talks to Heather Neill about his modern-dress version of Jonson's The Alchemist, and also has a punchy message for Shakespeare-deniers.
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“The notion that Shakespeare didn't write his own plays is just as absurd as Holocaust Denial.”
- Recording Date: 29-Sep-2006
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- WEST END REVIEW The Alchemist (National), Moon for the Misbegotten (Old Vic), Piano/Forte (Royal Court) and Wicked (Apollo). Mark Shenton (Sunday Express), Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Aleks Sierz (Tribune) and Matt Wolf (Bloomberg) discuss.
“London theatre this autumn is suddenly ablaze with a series of double-star turns.”
- Recording Date: 29-Sep-2006
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