Audio: Actors and Performers
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Queen Lear: Ursula Mohan discusses a new production with a woman in the title role
23rd June 2014
SHAKESPEARE: LEAR Ursula Mohan tells Sophie Reynolds about the challenges and rewards of playing Shakespeare’s troubled sovereign. Mohan is currentl...
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Director Jonathan Munby casts Eve Best in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
16th June 2014
SHAKESPEARE: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Director Jonathan Munby talks to Heather Neill about his very well-received version of this Roman play, currently at...
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Research with Reach: how university-based research can affect arts and culture
9th June 2014
INTERVIEW: CASSIE BRADLEY and PENNY NEWELL The actor (in Sam Mendes's King Lear) and the doctoral researcher at King's College London, who are co-conv...
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Theatre historian Jonathan Croall reveals the story behind his biography of Gielgud
21st May 2014
INTERVIEW: JONATHAN CROALL The theatre writer, journalist and editor talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest book, In Search of Gielgud (Herbert Adler),...
Listen nowin 20th-Century Drama, Actors and Performers, Books, Theatre People
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Actor Leesa Gazi on Birangona: Women of War, stories of female survivors
9th May 2014
ASIAN VOICES: LEESA GAZI Suman Bhuchar talks to the actor, translator and a founder of Komola Collective, a new theatre company whose debut production...
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Director and cast of the RSC First Encounters Taming of the Shrew share their views
23rd April 2014
SHAKESPEARE: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Director Michael Fentiman, actors Katy Stephens (Petruchio) and Forbes Masson (Katherina) talk to Judi Herman abo...
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The Two Worlds of Charlie F: from tour of duty to tour de force
21st March 2014
INTERVIEW: BRAVO 22 COMPANY Three members of Bravo 22 Company, Cassidy Little, Dan Shaw and Darren Swift join director Stephen Rayne to talk to Domini...
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Actor Joy Fernandes on The Merchants of Bollywood and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
16th February 2014
ASIAN VOICES: JOY FERNANDES The Indian actor talks to Suman Bhuchar about appearing in the international smash-hit extravaganza The Merchants of Bolly...
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Mark Leipacher and David Byrne lay bare the Faction at the New Diorama
8th February 2014
INTERVIEW: MARK LEIPACHER AND DAVID BYRNE With the Faction’s third rep season at the New Diorama now underway, Matt Trueman talks to artistic direct...
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