West End Review: June 2011 (2/2)
West End Review (II): London Road, by Alecky Blythe and others (National Theatre), One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, after Goldoni (National Theatre) & Acid Test by Anya Reiss (Royal Court...
View ArticleThe Young Vic’s David Lan on staging Wild Swans
INTERVIEW: DAVID LAN The artistic director of the Young Vic talks to Mary Mazzilli about the making of Wild Swans, the first stage adaptation of the 1991 best-selling autobiography by Chinese-born...
View ArticleActor Cesar Sarachu plunges into Complicite’s latest
INTERVIEW: CESAR SARACHU The Spanish actor and performer chats to Ziortza Fernandez about his role in Complicite's The Master and Margarita (Barbican), a stage version of the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov...
View ArticleGareth Machin, artistic director of Salisbury Playhouse, on William Golding’s...
INTERVIEW: GARETH MACHIN The new artistic director of Salisbury Playhouse talks to Dominic Cavendish about the challenges of running a regional theatre, and about his bold new project to bring to the...
View ArticleA Christmas Carol adapted by Dominic Gerrard and directed by Tim Carroll
INTERVIEW: TIM CARROLL and DOMINIC GERRARD The director and actor talk to Heather Neill about their bicentennial one-man production of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, which will be performed at the...
View ArticlePanel discussion about Anthony Burgess and A Clockwork Orange (2/2)
THE GENIUS OF ANTHONY BURGESS (2/2) Panel discussion about A Clockwork Orange (Soho Theatre), chaired by Soho's artistic director Steve Marmion, with Alexandra Spencer-Jones, the director of the...
View ArticlePanel discussion about Anthony Burgess and A Clockwork Orange (1/2)
THE GENIUS OF ANTHONY BURGESS (1/2) Panel discussion about A Clockwork Orange (Soho Theatre), chaired by Soho's artistic director Steve Marmion, with Alexandra Spencer-Jones, the director of the...
View ArticleBroadcaster and comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli adapts Moliere’s The Miser
ASIAN VOICES: HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI The co-adapter, with director Jatinder Verma, of Moliere's The Miser, now renamed as Kanjoos (Tara Arts, currently touring), talks to Suman Bhuchar about this...
View ArticlePlaywright Simon Stephens on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS The award-winning playwright chats to Aleks Sierz about his superb adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Apollo Theatre), which...
View ArticleActor Paul Rhys explores Complicite’s The Master and Margarita
INTERVIEW: PAUL RHYS After seven years away from the stage, Olivier award nominee Paul Rhys returned as the Master and Professor Woland in Complicite’s staging of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and...
View ArticleFourth Monkey’s Steve Green discusses Project Colony
INTERVIEW: STEVE GREEN Ella Parry-Davies meets the artistic director of theatre company and training institution Fourth Monkey, along with performers Lauren Young, Abbey Gorton and Euan Forsyth. The...
View ArticleAyub Khan-Din adapts the classic To Sir, with Love for the Royal & Derngate
ASIAN VOICES: AYUB KHAN-DIN The playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about his adaptation of To Sir, with Love, based on the 1959 novel by E R Braithwaite (which was made into a film in 1967 starring...
View ArticleMike Poulton talks about his career as an adaptor of neglected classics
INTERVIEW: MIKE POULTON The playwright responsible for the adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool currently impressing the critics at the Old Vic darts out of the final stages of rehearsals for...
View ArticleHilary Mantel and Mike Poulton discuss putting Wolf Hall on stage for the RSC
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 discuss the process of bringing 1,000-odd pages of...
View ArticleRoyal Shakespeare Company special: Jeremy Herrin on Wolf Hall and Bring Up...
DIRECTOR’S TALK: JEREMY HERRIN The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s productions of Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, talks to RSC Events Coordinator...
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