Audio tagged with: history plays
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Angus Jackson directs Edward Bond’s flinty study of the bard
10th March 2012
INTERVIEW: ANGUS JACKSON The director talks to Aleks Sierz about his sellout revival of Edward Bond's Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death (1973), which i...
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Playwright Howard Brenton on a revival of his Bloody Poetry
31st January 2012
INTERVIEW: HOWARD BRENTON The playwright and screen writer talks to Aleks Sierz about Bloody Poetry, his 1984 play about Shelley, Byron and the loves ...
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Howard Brenton on Anne Boleyn, and more
28th June 2010
INTERVIEW: HOWARD BRENTON The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about his three current productions: his new play, Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare's Globe), ...
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Adriano Shaplin of the Riot Group talks science
23rd November 2008
INTERVIEW: ADRIANO SHAPLIN The American playwright and director talks about his first commission for the Royal Shakespeare Company: The Tragedy of Tho...
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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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Roger Allam: the acting life
9th July 2008
INTERVIEW: ROGER ALLAM The actor who plays German impressario Max Reinhardt in Michael Frayn's Afterlife (National Theatre) talks to Philip Fisher abo...
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RSC chief Michael Boyd battles with Shakespeare’s Histories (2/2)
1st May 2008
SHAKESPEARE: THE HISTORY PLAYS (2/2) As the RSC's monumental Histories cycle nears the end of its run at the Roundhouse in London, its master-planner ...
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RSC chief Michael Boyd battles with Shakespeare’s Histories (1/2)
25th April 2007
SHAKESPEARE: THE HISTORY PLAYS (1/2) Michael Boyd, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, talks to Heather Neill about the great cycle of...
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Acclaimed Irish playwright Tom Murphy (2/2)
16th June 2006
THEATRE FORUM IRELAND 2006: TOM MURPHY (2/2) The acclaimed Irish playwright continues his address about his life and work. Sound quality: moderate.
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