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- Shakespeare: Measure for Measure. Director Michael Attenborough talks to Heather Neill about his modern-dress production of Shakespeare's problem play, currently on at the Almeida, and starring Rory Kinnear and Anna Maxwell Martin. Recorded at the Almeida.
“There must be part of Isabella that is thinking: surely I could commit a small sin and thus save a human life.”
- Recording Date: 01-Mar-2010
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- Interview: Ian Rickson. The director of Jez Butterworth's smash-hit, mythic extravaganza Jerusalem (currently at the Apollo Theatre) talks to Aleks Sierz about his long relationship with the work of this playwright, including The Night Heron, The Winterling and Parlour Song. Recorded at the Young Vic.
“Jez accords articulacy and eloquence to each and every character of his plays, regardless of class, gender or empowerment.”
- Recording Date: 22-Feb-2010
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- Asian Voices: Actor and playwright Rani Moorthy talks to Suman Bhuchar about her career and her latest play, Handful of Henna (Rasa with Oxfordshire Theatre Company), a touring production which examines the magical powers of henna in the context of a wedding story. Recorded at Watermans.
“For the first time, here in Britain, I could explore ideas that I could not touch on because of censorship in Malaysia or Singapore.”
- Recording Date: 29-Jan-2010
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- West End Review: Revivals Special. Judi Dench as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Measure for Measure (Almeida); An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Crucible); Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith); The Caretaker (Trafalgar Studios); Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic). David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) & Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss. Hosted by Mark Shenton (Sunday Express). Recorded at Dewynters, London. Edited by Dominic Cavendish.
“I don't think you can say Peter Hall's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is banal, that's absurd! I think it's very true to the spirit of the play...”
- Recording Date: 19-Feb-2010
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- West End Review: New Plays Special. Reviews of The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick); Really Old, Like Forty-Five (Cottesloe, RNT); Peter Brook's 11 and 12 (Barbican); Serenading Louie (Donmar); plus the transfers of Enron (Noel Coward) & Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre). David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss. Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) hosts. Recorded at Dewynters, London. Edited by Dominic Cavendish.
“One very odd thing about 'Really Old, Like 45' is that it's the third play at the National in the last 18 months to have a scene set at the National...”
- Recording Date: 19-Feb-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with director Leandre Ribera and performers Emma Norin, Lina Johansson and Silvia Fratelli of Mimbre about their show, Until Now, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“We work really well together as friends, and we complement each other very well, and so it was quite natural for us to work together as three women.”
- Recording Date: 26-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with performers Daniel Blanga Gubbay and Paola Villani of Italy’s Pathosformel about their show, Timidity of Bones, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the ICA Theatre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“What we wanted to do was to hide behind the screen, to make a gift to the audience's imagination and to surprise them with a sight of our bodies.”
- Recording Date: 25-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with performers Jonathan Guichard and Fnico Feldmann of France’s Compagnie Ieto about their show, Ieto, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“We created the benches first to see how interesting they would be to use, and second to get the maximum comedy from them.”
- Recording Date: 30-Jan-2010
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- Interview: Roger Rees. The Welsh actor, who has made his return to the London stage as Vladimir in Waiting for Godot opposite Ian McKellen, talks about the role, his days at the RSC and more recent work. Dominic Cavendish quizzes. www.waitingforgodottheplay.com
“I think Vladimir gets very near the point of giving into the anarchy. He holds himself back but he knows it's there and he's changed forever.”
- Recording Date: 11-Feb-2010
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- New writing special: Lecture entitled Blasted and After: New Writing in British Theatre Today, about in-yer-face theatre in 1990s and its aftermath, given by Aleks Sierz (Visiting Research Fellow, Rose Bruford College) at a meeting of the Society for Theatre Research, at the Art Workers Guild, London. Expletives not deleted.
“It is worth noting that British theatre in the Noughties had little to say about some of the topics that people actually argue about.”
- Recording Date: 16-Feb-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with directors Jean-Pierre Larroche and Marion Lefevbre of France’s Les Ateliers du Spectacle about their show, A Distances, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the ICA Theatre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“There is no reason why Marion is dressed as an 18th-century page, but it pleases me, and it is a wink to the audience.”
- Recording Date: 29-Jan-2010
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- Spanish Golden Age Special: Director Simon Evans talks to Heather Neill about his production of Lope De Vega's Madness in Valencia (which has just transferred to the Trafalgar Studios from the White Bear), a revival of a classic from 16th-century Spain by a contemporary of Shakespeare. Recorded at the Trafalgar Studios.
“The treatment of insanity was very barbaric at the time. But madness was also equated with love, which gives it a warm sheen.”
- Recording Date: 12-Feb-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with director Adrian Schvarstein and performers Teresa San Juan Gonzalez, Emiliano Sanchez, Cristina Sole, Joan Catala, Petra Rochau, Rebecca Macauley, Nigel Haywood and Angel Estevez of Spain’s Circus Klezmer, which performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“Street theatre, and circus, is more alive than opera but you make less money - we come from lots of different places and schools.”
- Recording Date: 24-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with performer Jeanne Mordoj of France’s Comagnie Bal/Jeanne Mordoj about her show, Eloge Du Poil, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Barbican. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian: variable quality. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“The beard provoked existential questions: I wondered what would happen if a normal woman went to a bar wearing a beard.”
- Recording Date: 28-Jan-2010
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- Mime Fest Special: Postshow discussion with performers Xavier Bouvier and Benoit Devos of Belgium's Okidok, about their show, Slips Inside, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the Southbank Centre. Hosted by Dr Dick McCaw, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recorded by Diana Damian. More info: www.mimefest.co.uk
“We met at school, and we were both bad at soccer so we both went to a circus workshop during the holidays.”
- Recording Date: 23-Jan-2010
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- Interview: Ursula Martinez. Ahead of a new show at the Barbican Centre, My Stories Your Emails, Ursula Martinez, best-known now for her involvement in cabaret sensation La Clique, talks to Carole Woddis about her work and why she was dismayed to find her subversive strip-tease act laid bare on the web. http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=9943
“It found its way on the internet and thereafter I started receiving emails from fans from all over the world, most of it innocuous and charming, some of it not so charming.. quite inappropriate and somewhat delusional...”
- Recording Date: 25-Jan-2010
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