Audio: Actors and Performers
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Anastasia Hille on playing Titania at the Young Vic
14th March 2017
INTERVIEW: ANASTASIA HILLE. Anastasia Hille tells Heather Neill about preparing to play Titania and Hippolyta in Joe Hill-Gibbins’ controversial...
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Actor Oliver Cotton on performing in John Cleese farce
6th March 2017
INTERVIEW: OLIVER COTTON. The actor talks to Heather Neill about his early career in Olivier’s National Theatre company in the 1960s, his writin...
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Glenda Jackson on playing King Lear at the age of 80
16th January 2017
INTERVIEW: GLENDA JACKSON. Glenda Jackson tells Heather Neill about returning to the theatre after 23 years, acting on the Old Vic stage and working o...
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Actor David Horovitch talks about his role in Miller’s All My Sons at the Rose Theatre
14th November 2016
INTERVIEW: DAVID HOROVITCH. The actor talks to Judi Herman about playing Joe Keller in Arthur Miller’s first big hit, All My Sons, at the Rose Thea...
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Sir Alan Ayckbourn remembers his days with Sir Donald Wolfit
13th October 2016
INTERVIEW: SIR ALAN AYCKBOURN. On the eve of the latest West End revival of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, inspired by Harwood’s years work...
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Belarus Free Theatre’s Maria Alyokhina and Natalia Kaliada discuss Burning Doors
12th October 2016
INTERVIEW: MARIA ALYOKHINA. The performer and activist, Maria Alyokhina, talks to Judi Herman about the difference between taking people by surprise ...
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Kathryn Hunter talks about playing eleven characters in The Emperor
29th September 2016
Kathryn Hunter plays eleven of the faithful servants of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in The Emperor, Colin Teevan’s adaptation of Polish j...
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Ron Cook shares his thoughts about Brian Friel’s Faith Healer
3rd August 2016
INTERVIEW: RON COOK. The actor talks in-depth to Heather Neill about starring as Teddy in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, as revived at the Donmar W...
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Tony Jayawardena on The Invisible Hand; terrorism and capitalism today
12th June 2016
INTERVIEW: TONY JAYAWARDENA. The actor talks to Suman Bhuchar about playing an Islamic religious leader in The Invisible Hand, a political thriller...
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