The Archive
Recordings from September 2008
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 8
- INTERVIEW: GLYN MAXWELL The poet and novelist talks to Heather Neill about his latest play, Liberty (Shakespeare's Globe), a verse adaptation of Anatole France’s 1912 novel Les Dieux Ont Soif (The Gods Are Thirsty), set during the Terror in the French Revolution.
“I was shocked after 9/11 by the reflex knee-jerk anti-Americanism, because that can easily turn into tacit support for what was attacking western civilisation.”
- Recording Date: 08-Sep-2008
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- PETER NICHOLS SPECIAL (2/2) Q&A. The playwright answers questions from the audience at the British Library conference, The Golden Generation? New Light on British Theatre between 1945 and 1968, held on 8-9 September 2008. Part of the AHRC-sponsored Theatre Archive Project, a collaboration between the British Library and the University of Sheffield. Recorded live.
“In the 1950s, the curtain rose on middle-class rooms with French windows - any variation on that was considered avant-garde.”
- Recording Date: 09-Sep-2008
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- PETER NICHOLS SPECIAL (1/2) The playwright interviewed by Jamie Andrews and Alec Patton at the British Library conference, The Golden Generation? New Light on British Theatre between 1945 and 1968, held on 8-9 September 2008. Part of the AHRC-sponsored Theatre Archive Project, a collaboration between the British Library and the University of Sheffield. Recorded live.
“I'm largely an autobiographical writer, and I say, This is more or less me. But my plays are also very much a collage.”
- Recording Date: 09-Sep-2008
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- INTERVIEW: IDINA MENZEL The American Tony Award-winning actress, singer and songwriter, and star of Wicked and Rent, is on the way to becoming a pop diva. She talks to Philip Fisher about her career to date.
“I used to be so ambitious and meticulous about every choice - as you get older you realise you've got to let go.”
- Recording Date: 24-Sep-2008
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- INTERVIEW: ALECKY BLYTHE The theatre-maker talks to Aleks Sierz about her current verbatim piece, The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court), which is set in a seaside brothel, and about how her company, Recorded Delivery, developed its unique techniques.
“The woman who owned the parlour said, Yeah, put our story out - we're sick of being seen as junkies or Belle de Jour types.”
- Recording Date: 25-Sep-2008
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- WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) invites guests Charles Spencer (Telegraph), David Benedict (Variety) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to chew over London's big autumnal productions: Ivanov (Wyndham's), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Gielgud), Now or Later (Royal Court), Riflemind (Trafalgar Studios), Rain Man (Apollo) and in-i (National Theatre). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Without Pirandello we wouldn't have had Pinter or Beckett, all sorts of people. This is the missing link play.”
- Recording Date: 26-Sep-2008
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- GOLDEN GENERATION SPECIAL (2/2) The British Library's Jamie Andrews, Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts, and co-curator Alec Patton continue their discussion of The Golden Generation: British Theatre 1945-1968, with Aleks Sierz. Recorded at the British Library.
“Pinter's first play, The Room, was put on in a disused squash court - which is still there - at Bristol University.”
- Recording Date: 29-Sep-2008
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- GOLDEN GENERATION SPECIAL (1/2) The British Library's Jamie Andrews, Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts, and co-curator Alec Patton discuss their current exhibition, The Golden Generation: British Theatre 1945-1968, with Aleks Sierz. Recorded at the British Library.
“In those days, very few plays were published, so the copies in the Lord Chamberlain's archive are sometimes unique.”
- Recording Date: 29-Sep-2008
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