Asylum and refuge: Theatre of Sanctuary from SBC
Mark Smith talks to producer John Tomlinson about SBC Theatre, the company he co-created and which has recently become the UK's first "Theatre Company of Sanctuary". This status recognises the company...
3 Nov 201719min
Vanya comes HOME to Manchester for Revolution centenary
As part of its A Revolution Betrayed? spring and summer season across its film, art and theatre programmes, commemorating the centenary of the Russian Revolution, HOME Manchester will present a new pr...
25 Okt 20170s
TakeOver Festival at York Theatre Royal
Mark Smith talks to emerging director Julia Levai and York Theatre Royal Associate Director Juliet Forster about the theatre's TakeOver Festival. The festival pairs Theatre Royal staff with emerging a...
17 Okt 201727min
Adam Penford on taking over Nottm Playhouse
Adam Penford has taken over as artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse. The 37-year-old had been working as a freelance director and replaces Giles Croft who had been at the helm of the Playhouse fo...
14 Okt 201724min
Hear from Rita, Sue and Bob Too: Out of Joint tours Andrea Dunbar revival
Director Max Stafford-Clarke has revived for his theatre company Out of Joint Andrea Dunbar's play Rita, Sue and Bob Too, which he directed originally while Artistic Director of the Royal Court in Lon...
4 Okt 201739min
Great Expectations: Dickens in Derby
Derby Theatre is to produce Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations directed by artistic director Sarah Brigham. BTG's Midlands editor Steve Orme spoke during rehearsals to ...
29 Sep 201728min
Investigating Calderdale's relationship with water with 509 in Halifax
Mark Smith interviews Jenny Harris, creative producer for 509 Arts, about their production Calderland. Forming the centrepiece of the Landlines & Watermarks project, this "people's opera" aims to inve...
26 Sep 201718min
Gilly Roche on new work at West Yorkshire Playhouse
Mark Smith talks to Gilly Roche, the West Yorkshire Playhouse's New Work Producer, as she launches this year's Furnace Festival celebrating a range of new work in the north. Roche has been part of a r...
21 Sep 201717min
