The Archive
Recordings from April 2010
Total Number of Recordings from this month: 6
- NEW DIORAMA SPECIAL On the eve of its inaugural show, David Byrne, Programming Manager of the New Diorama Theatre (a newly built 80-seat venue in central London), and Robert Gillespie, author of Love, Question Mark, the venture's first show, tell Aleks Sierz about the thrill of opening a new theatre.
“I think that there's a gap which I want to fill - to help all those companies who are doing exceptional work but are being overlooked by subsidised theatres.”
- Recording Date: 06-Apr-2010
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- ASIAN VOICES: SANJEEV BHASKAR The actor and comedian talks to Suman Bhuchar about his role in Joe Penhall's Dumb Show (2004), which is currently being revived at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, and is a black comedy about celebrity. He also discusses his roles in Art, Spamalot and his early career. Recorded at the Rose Theatre.
“I have a recurring dream in which I am offered a great role - then I wake up and it's just a dream. Dumb Show was an offer, but it very rarely happens!”
- Recording Date: 10-Apr-2010
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- INTERVIEW: JONATHAN HARVEY The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest play, Canary, an epic which charts gay history over 50 years, in an ambitious co-production between the Liverpool Playhouse, Hampstead Theatre and the English Touring Theatre. Recorded at the ETT.
“Historically, gay people don’t have children to pass stories down to, so what happens to those stories when you’re dead and don’t have kids?”
- Recording Date: 12-Apr-2010
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- FOCUS ON NON ZERO ONE Founder members Iván Gonzales, Cat Harrison, Fran Miller and Alex Turner talk to Matt Boothman about their site-specific debut show, Would Like To Meet, in which the audience explore a series of environments in the Barbican Centre while led by a voice heard through a pair of headphones. With excerpts from this audio-guided work. Recorded at the Barbican.
“We discovered that the minutes and seconds on our recorders were slightly different from those on our stop watches - which seems impossible!”
- Recording Date: 15-Apr-2010
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- ASIAN VOICES: GURPREET KAUR BHATTI The playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about her latest play, Behud (Beyond Belief) (Soho), which is an imaginative take on her own controversial play, Behzti (Dishonour), which was stopped by a riot outside the theatre on its first production at Birmingham Rep in December 2004. They also explore other aspects of Asian theatre, including Bhatti's earlier career.
“I'm writing a play and not my autobiography, so it's got to work as a piece of fiction which comes from my imagination.”
- Recording Date: 29-Apr-2010
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- REGIONAL THEATRE SPECIAL On the eve of the election, Patrick Sandford (artistic director of the Nuffield, Southampton), Simon Stokes (artistic director of the Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and Rachel Tackley (director of English Touring Theatre) join Dominic Cavendish to discuss the state of play in theatre outside London. Recorded at the Young Vic, London.
“I don't think there is a fortress mentality, a competitiveness, but there is a lot more swapping of creative ideas and impulses and personnel.”
- Recording Date: 30-Apr-2010
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