Audio: 19th-Century Drama
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Simon Stokes makes us shudder at the gory thrills of Grand Guignol
17th November 2014
INTERVIEW: SIMON STOKES The Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Plymouth talks to Judi Herman about his production of Karl Grose’s Grand Guignol, whi...
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Director Declan Donnellan talks about Ubu Roi and much more
22nd August 2014
INTERVIEW: DECLAN DONNELLAN The artistic director of Cheek by Jowl, currently riding high with his hit West End staging of Shakespeare in Love, talks ...
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Mike Poulton talks about his career as an adaptor of neglected classics
17th December 2013
INTERVIEW: MIKE POULTON The playwright responsible for the adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool currently impressing the critics at the Old Vi...
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Actor Michael Pennington talks about playing Strindberg
14th June 2013
INTERVIEW: MICHAEL PENNINGTON The star actor, celebrating his 70th birthday, talks to Heather Neill about his role as Edgar, opposite Linda Marlowe's ...
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Actor Hattie Morahan discusses A Doll’s House for today at the Young Vic
5th May 2013
INTERVIEW: HATTIE MORAHAN The award-winning actress tells Sophie Reynolds about the Young Vic’s recent production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s Hou...
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Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens rewrites Jarry’s King Ubu
7th February 2012
INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS The award-winning playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his new play, The Trial of Ubu, which is currently at the Hampstead ...
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West End Theatre: past plays, posters and passions
7th June 2010
NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATRE SPECIAL While walking around the exhibition of West End Theatre in the 19th Century at the National Theatre, which features...
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Poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell on Liberty
8th September 2008
INTERVIEW: GLYN MAXWELL The poet and novelist talks to Heather Neill about his latest play, Liberty (Shakespeare's Globe), a verse adaptation of Anato...
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Actor Bella Merlin on acting
8th August 2008
FOCUS ON ACTING (2/2) Actor and teacher Bella Merlin, author of The Complete Stanislavski Toolkit (Nick Hern, 2007), talks to Aleks Sierz about how to...
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