Alex Wright of The Flanagan Collective on The Great Gatsby at The Fleeting Arms in York
Alex Wright is a Yorkshire-based theatre-maker who as a founder member of Belt Up Theatre reached national audiences with a series of immersive, free-form adaptations of well-known works. Since then h...
19 Des 201520min
Inkheart: HOME Manchester's first Christmas
The first Christmas production at HOME Manchester will be the English language stage première of Cornelia Funke's best-selling children's fantasy novel Inkheart. In this episode, we speak to Irish act...
3 Des 201520min
A tale of two Snow Whites: Natasha Holmes of Tell Tale Hearts and Liv Lorent of balletLORENT
In this episode, we look at two very different non-pantomime versions of the Snow White story that can be seen this Christmas. Natasha Holmes is artistic director of Yorkshire-based Tell Tale Hearts, ...
23 Nov 201552min
Playwright Emma Reeves on Snow Child for tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal
Leeds-based children's theatre company tutti frutti has teamed up with York Theatre Royal and playwright Emma Reeves, Olivier-nominated for her adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's Hetty Feather, on a ne...
1 Okt 201523min
Pilot Theatre's Outsiders, re-imagining Camus
York-based Pilot Theatre is currently in rehearsals for Outsiders, a new re-imagining of Albert Camus' novel L'Etranger. The play is written by Emteaz Hussain and staged by the Australian director Fra...
25 Sep 201520min
Robert Powell on playing King Charles III and his 50-year career
BTG Midlands editor Steve Orme talks to actor Robert Powell, who has taken over the title role in Mike Bartlett's King Charles III from Tim Pigott-Smith for a UK tour which began in September 2015. Po...
20 Sep 201533min
Michael Billington on his career and new book The 101 Greatest Plays
Michael Billington has been theatre critic of The Guardian since 1971 and of Country Life since 1986, but began reviewing for The Times in 1965. He is the author of biographies of Harold Pinter and Pe...
8 Sep 201540min
Conrad Nelson on The Winter's Tale for Northern Broadsides
Northern Broadsides resident director Conrad Nelson is directing the company's first production in its 23-year history of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale as well as appearing as jealous Sicilian King ...
2 Sep 201530min
