Audio tagged with: history plays
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Blanche McIntyre tours her production of Tom Stoppard’s classic Arcadia
3rd March 2015
INTERVIEW: BLANCHE McINTYRE The award-winning director talks to Heather Neill about her new production of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 masterpiece Arcadia fo...
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RSC Special: the writer and director of Oppenheimer both discuss the play
19th February 2015
WRITER AND DIRECTOR'S TALK: TOM MORTON-SMITH AND ANGUS JACKSON The writer and the director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Oppenheimer in convers...
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Tom Morton-Smith discusses his RSC bio-play Oppenheimer
17th February 2015
INTERVIEW: TOM MORTON-SMITH The playwright tells Matt Trueman about Oppenheimer, his new bio-play of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man behind the Manhat...
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Actors William Hope and Burt Caesar chat about Jefferson’s Garden
13th February 2015
INTERVIEW: WILLIAM HOPE and BURT CAESAR Two actors (Hope plays the title role and Caesar plays James, his cook, born into slavery) in Timberlake Werte...
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Hilary Mantel and Mike Poulton discuss putting Wolf Hall on stage for the RSC
3rd January 2014
INTERVIEW: HILARY MANTEL AND MIKE POULTON The multi-award-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies joins the experienced theatre adapter to...
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Director David Byrne: the New Diorama and The Universal Machine (1/2)
3rd May 2013
INTERVIEW: DAVID BYRNE (1/2) The Artistic and Executive Director of the New Diorama theatre talks to Heather Neill about his career, the ethos of and ...
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Director David Byrne: the New Diorama and The Universal Machine (2/2)
3rd May 2013
INTERVIEW: DAVID BYRNE (2/2) The Artistic and Executive Director of the New Diorama theatre talks to Heather Neill about his career, the ethos of and ...
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Playwright Amanda Whittington investigates the life of 1950s hostess Ruth Ellis
10th April 2013
INTERVIEW: AMANDA WHITTINGTON The playwright tells Aleks Sierz about her fascination with the case of Ruth Ellis, who in 1955 became the last woman to...
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Playwright James Graham talks about his hit, This House
13th December 2012
INTERVIEW: JAMES GRAHAM The prolific young playwright talks to Dominic Cavendish about his politically minded career to-date and This House, his back...
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