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West End Review: revivals special

editor@theatrevoice.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:25:03 +0000

WEST END REVIEW: MAY 2012 Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) convene to assess Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (Apollo), Robert Holman's Making Noise Quietly (Donmar Warehouse), Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw (Vaudeville) and Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (Savoy).

West End Review: new plays

editor@theatrevoice.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:50:48 +0000

WEST END REVIEW: MAY 2012 Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) convene to assess Lisa D'Amour's Detroit (National), David Hare's South Downs, paired with Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version (Harold Pinter), Mike Bartlett's Love, Love, Love (Royal Court) and Bartlett's adaptation of the 1981 film Chariots of Fire (Hampstead), and the new musical version of Top Hat (Aldwych).

Director Polly Findlay explores the tragedy of Antigone

editor@theatrevoice.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:29:27 +0000

INTERVIEW: POLLY FINDLAY The director talks to Matt Trueman about her new modern-dress production of Sophocles's Antigone, which stars Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittaker and is currently on at The National Theatre. She also talks about her career and current opportunities for young directors.

Shakespeare’s First Acts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

editor@theatrevoice.com — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:12:23 +0000

SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST ACTS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Sean Holmes, artistic director of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, discusses the first act of the play, which he has recently directed with Filter Theatre, with Sophie Reynolds. This interview is part of theatreVOICE’s new series for Olympics year 2012, looking at the beginning of each of Shakespeare’s plays.

The Taming of the Shrew in Urdu at the Globe

editor@theatrevoice.com — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:31:09 +0000

ASIAN VOICES: NADIA JAMIL and OMAIR RANA The Lahore screen and stage star, who plays Katherine (Qurat ul Aine), and the actor who plays Petruchio (Rustam), chat to Suman Bhuchar about the Theatre Wallay-KASHF production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare's Globe), which is performed in Urdu as part of this theatre's epic Globe to Globe season.

Uninvited Guests on their interactive Make Better Please

editor@theatrevoice.com — Mon, 28 May 2012 07:13:48 +0000

INTERVIEW: RICHARD DUFTY and PAUL CLARKE The co-artistic directors of Uninvited Guests talk to Matt Trueman about their latest show, Make Better Please, which — under the slogan of "We will make things better!" — involves the audience in the news stories of the day and exorcises their demons.

Hamish Jenkinson travels deep into the Old Vic Tunnels

editor@theatrevoice.com — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:50:54 +0000

INTERVIEW: HAMISH JENKINSON The Director of the Old Vic Tunnels tells Sophie Reynolds about how this extraordinary performance space underneath Waterloo Station was discovered, and the way in which it allows the Old Vic Theatre to try out more experimental work.

Three British-Nigerian playwrights discuss their latest work

editor@theatrevoice.com — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:16:04 +0000

BLACK VOICES: BOLA AGBAJE, JANICE OKOH and ADE SOLANKE Three British-Nigerian playwrights talk to Aleks Sierz about their latest plays — Belong (Royal Court/Tiata Fahodzi), Egusi Soup (Soho) and Pandora's Box (Arcola) — and how their work tells stories that are new to most audiences.

Digital theatre: The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, livestreamed

editor@theatrevoice.com — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:55:28 +0000

INTERVIEW: JOHN McGRATH and TOM BEARDSHAW The director of National Theatre Wales and the multi-platform designer discuss The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, a play by Tim Price exploring the case of the US soldier accused of leaking 250,000 classified US diplomatic cables along with half a million army reports about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They focus on the livestreamed production, a new departure for UK theatre.

Director and writer Lisa Goldman breaks the rules

editor@theatrevoice.com — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:49:17 +0000

INTERVIEW: LISA GOLDMAN The director and writer talks to Aleks Sierz about her new book, The No Rules Handbook for Writers (Oberon), which is an antidote to prescriptive writing guides, and also recalls her site-specific walkabout play, Hoxton Story (2005).