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
For Love or Money: Blake Morrison and Northern Broadsides
Northern Broadsides theatre company's For Love or Money, directed by and featuring company founder Barrie Rutter, has been adapted from a French play, Turcaret by Alain-Rene Lesage, by regular Broadsi...
18 Sep 201720min
Kevin Fegan on The Ruck, The Shed Crew and 30 years as a playwright
Playwright Kevin Fegan talks to BTG editor David Chadderton about his 30-year career as a playwright and, more specifically, about his new plays opening soon: The Ruck opens on the main stage at the ...
13 Sep 201727min
Edinburgh 2017: Richard Jordan, Joyce McMillan and Mark Fisher
Producer Richard Jordan and BTG's Philip Fisher talk about trends in Edinburgh and discuss the best shows to see. Philip Fisher also chairs a critics panel with Joyce McMillan of The Scotsman and free...
8 Sep 20171h 5min
Graeme Macrae Burnet at the Book Festival and Milly Thomas at the Fringe
This year's Edinburgh International Book Festival featured a series of events subtitled "a theatrical exploration", in which well-known Scottish novels were partly staged by a director, scriptwriter a...
4 Sep 201759min
