Audio: Political Theatre
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Headlong’s Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan talk Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
18th October 2013
INTERVIEW: ROBERT ICKE and DUNCAN MACMILLAN The director and playwright talk to Dominic Cavendish about their much acclaimed adaptation of George Orwe...
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fanSHEN theatre company, and friends, discuss how theatre changed the world
6th October 2013
DEBATE: HOW THEATRE CHANGED THE WORLD — OR DID IT? — A DISCUSSION AROUND ART AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE Dramaturg Carissa Hope Lynch chairs the discussi...
Listen nowin Criticism, Directors, New Writing, Political Theatre, Site Specific
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Actor Lyndsey Marshal looks at Othello through Emilia’s eyes
23rd August 2013
SHAKESPEARE: OTHELLO Actor Lyndsey Marshal talks to Heather Neill about her role as Emilia in Nicholas Hytner’s superb modern-day version of Othello...
Listen nowin Actors and Performers, Political Theatre, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
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Award-winning actor Richard McCabe talks about his role in The Audience
6th May 2013
INTERVIEW: RICHARD McCABE The Olivier winning actor talks to Heather Neill about playing Harold Wilson in The Audience, Peter Morgan’s superb new pl...
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A Thousand Shards of Glass by the Jane Packman Company
1st May 2013
INTERVIEW: JANE PACKMAN COMPANY Director Jane Packman, writer Ben Pacey and performer Lucy Ellinson talk to Diana Damian about their surround sound ac...
Listen nowin Directors, Participatory and Interactive, Political Theatre, Regional Theatre
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Canadian playwright Arthur Milner discusses his controversial Facts
6th March 2013
INTERVIEW: ARTHUR MILNER The Canadian Jewish playwright and theatre practitioner talks to Judi Herman about his play Facts (Finborough Theatre). Set i...
Listen nowin International, London Fringe, Playwrights, Political Theatre
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Activist playwright Anders Lustgarten challenges the ideology of austerity
2nd March 2013
INTERVIEW: ANDERS LUSTGARTEN The playwright and political activist talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest play, If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let...
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Michael Walling’s Border Crossings investigate sex, money and the internet
25th February 2013
INTERVIEW: MICHAEL WALLING The artistic director of Border Crossings theatre company talks to Suman Bhuchar about their latest show, Consumed (touring...
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Royal Shakespeare Company special: Roxana Silbert on A Life of Galileo
22nd February 2013
DIRECTOR’S TALK: ROXANA SILBERT The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s A Life of Galileo in conversation with journalist Paul Allen. They...
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