Interview: The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning. John McGrath, director of National Theatre Wales, and Tom Beardshaw – multi-platform designer – discuss The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, a play by Tim Price exploring the case of the US soldier accused of leaking classified US diplomatic cables along with half a million army reports.They focus on the livestreamed production, a new departure for UK theatre. Interview by Ella Parry-Davies.
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The Young Vic’s David Lan on staging Wild Swans
INTERVIEW: DAVID LAN The artistic director of the Young Vic talks to Mary Mazzilli about the making of Wild Swans, the first stage adaptation of the 1991 best-selling autobiography by Chinese-born writer Jung Chang. The stage version — part of World Stage season — is written by Alexandra Wood and directed by Sacha Wares.
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Director Ned Bennett revives Philip Ridley’s masterpiece
INTERVIEW: NED BENNETT The director talks to Aleks Sierz about his current revival of Philip Ridley’s visionary 2005 play, Mercury Fur, in a powerful production for the new Greenhouse Theatre Company at the Old Red Lion fringe venue in London.
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Interview: David Edgar on the King James Bible
INTERVIEW: DAVID EDGAR The playwright, whose play about the making, 400 years ago, of the King James Bible, Written on the Heart, will premiere at the RSC’s Swan Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon in the autumn, talks to Heather Neill about its story – the story of the English Reformation.
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George Perrin and James Grieve of Paines Plough plan the future
INTERVIEW: GEORGE PERRIN and JAMES GRIEVE The new joint artistic directors of Paines Plough, talk to Dominic Cavendish about their plans for the touring new writing company on the eve of the UK premiere of Love Love Love by Mike Bartlett at the Drum, Theatre Royal, Plymouth.
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V&A National Video Archive of Performance
FOCUS ON VIDEO Jill Evans, producer of the V&A’s National Video Archive of Performance, and Kate Dorney, curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance, tell Aleks Sierz about the V&A’s extensive collection of video recordings of theatre performances, and discuss the hazards as well as the joys of creating them.
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Playwright Simon Stephens on Pornography
INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS (1/2) The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest play, Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse), which was a major hit at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, but had its first production in Germany, directed by Sebastian Nubling.
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The War Horse puppet-master speaks
INTERVIEW: ADRIAN KOHLER The co-founder, with Basil Jones, of Handspring, the South African puppetry company, talks to Heather Neill about creating the horses in the National Theatre’s spectacular adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, and discusses adult puppetry.