Actor Bella Merlin on acting
FOCUS ON ACTING (2/2) Actor and teacher Bella Merlin, author of The Complete Stanislavski Toolkit (Nick Hern, 2007), talks to Aleks Sierz about how to recognise honest acting both on stage and on film....
View ArticleWest End Review: July 2009 (1/2)
WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss Phedre (National), The...
View ArticleMichael Pennington talks Chekhov
CHEKHOV SPECIAL Actor Michael Pennington talks to Heather Neill about A Jubilee for Anton Chekhov (Hampstead Theatre), a week-long event hosted by him and Chekhov specialist Rosamund Bartlett which...
View ArticleLondon International Mime Festival 7
MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with director Dimitry Aryupin of Russia's BlackSkyWhite about their show, USSR Was Here, performed as part of the 32nd London International Mime Festival, at the...
View ArticleDirector Howard Davies on The White Guard
INTERVIEW: HOWARD DAVIES The director talks to Carole Woddis about his current production of Mikhail Bulgakov's The White Guard (National), a play about Russia during the revolution which was Stalin's...
View ArticleDirector Lucy Bailey on her rejuvenated Uncle Vanya
INTERVIEW: LUCY BAILEY The director talks to Heather Neill about her revival of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, in a new version by Mike Poulton, which has enjoyed such a successful, sell-out season at The...
View ArticleStar actor Simon Russell Beale on playing Stalin
INTERVIEW: SIMON RUSSELL BEALE To mark the transfer to the National's Olivier Theatre of John Hodge's Olivier Award-winning play, Collaborators, about Stalin and Bulgakov, we're sharing this short...
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 ArticleBlanche McIntyre gives a director’s-eye-view of The Seagull
INTERVIEW: BLANCHE MCINTYRE The director of John Donnelly’s radical new version of The Seagull, for Headlong and The Nuffield Southampton, talks to Judi Herman about her extraordinary staging, with...
View ArticleWest End Review: Children of the Sun, Disgraced & more
West End Review, May 2013, part 2. Mark Shenton hosts a session looking at Gorky's Children of the Sun (National Theatre), Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) and Ayad...
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