Rachel O’Riordan
in Directors, Theatre Buildings
24th October 2019
INTERVIEW: RACHEL O’RIORDAN. The new artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith tells Lyn Gardner about her route to and plans for one of London’s largest subsidised theatres. They discuss her successful tenure at the Sherman Theatre, and the importance of thinking locally as a springboard to theatre of national importance. Recorded at the Lyric Hammersmith, September 2019.
“This building itself is a funny combination of old and new. The auditorium is 1890. The building around it is only five years old”