Soap Box Debate: Theatre Is Better Than Film

27th October 2006

 

SOAP BOX DEBATE: THEATRE IS BETTER THAN FILM

Critic Michael Billington and director Rupert Goold propose the motion while film producer Nik Powell and ICA chief Ekow Eshun oppose. Rachel Halliburton and Patrick Marmion host at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Excerpt.

‘Theatre has an absolutely unique capacity for ecstacy’ vs ‘Cinema is really the only art form of our age’.