Andrew Quick of Imitating the Dog on The Zero Hour and 6 Degrees Below the Horizon
Andrew Quick of Imitating the Dog talks about the company's methods and interests, and gives some details about the forthcoming tours of its two new productions: The Zero Hour and 6 Degrees Below the Horizon. The tour dates are: Wednesday 30th - Thursday 31st January: Live at LICA, Lancaster (The Zero Hour) Wednesday 6th - Thursday 7th February: Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, UK (6 Degrees Below the Horizon) Friday 8th - Saturday 9th February: Warwick Arts Centre (The Zero Hour) Tuesday 12th February: Axis Arts Centre, Crewe (6 Degrees Below the Horizon) Thursday 14th - Saturday 16th February: West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds (The Zero Hour) Tuesday 26th - Wednesday 27th March: Exeter Northcott Theatre (6 Degrees Below the Horizon) Thursday 9th May: Contact, Manchester (6 Degrees Below the Horizon)
23 Jan 201319min
Ben Roddy on playing panto dame for the first time at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury
Ben Roddy is an experienced pantomime performer and, in his 15th season, he takes on the role of Dame for the first time. Simon Sladen speaks to him about his theatrical career and playing Nurse Nellie in this year's Sleeping Beauty at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury.
13 Jan 201315min
Barrie Rutter of Northern Broadsides on the forthcoming tour of Rutherford and Son
David Chadderton talks to Barrie Rutter, artistic director of Northern Broadsides Theatre Company in Halifax, about the forthcoming national tour of Rutherford and Son by Githa Sowerby directed by Jonathan Miller in which Rutter plays the title role.
11 Jan 201312min
Philip Fisher talks to The Village Voice's Michael Feingold in New York City
Philip Fisher talks to The Village Voice's chief theatre critic Michael Feingold on New Year's Eve 2012 about the past year's theatre in New York.
8 Jan 201322min
Susannah Flood talks about playing Sylvia in Nina Raine's Tribes in New York
Susannah Flood stars in Nina Raine’s Tribes—originally produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2010—at Barrow Street Theatre, New York and talks about the difficulties of playing a character losing her hearing and learning sign language in three weeks.
6 Jan 201321min
Simon Fielding on panto at the Towngate Theatre Basildon
2012 marks Simon Fielding's sixth pantomime for the Towngate Theatre, Basildon. A pantomime producer, performer, director and choreographer, Fielding speaks to Simon Sladen about his pantomime career.
5 Jan 201312min
Playwright Richard Vergette on American Justice at the Arts Theatre in London
Richard Vergette's play American Justice, set in an American prison against the backdrop of the Obama administration, began life as an hourlong piece called As We Forgive Them as part of Manchester's annual new writing event 24:7 Theatre Festival. Under its new title and with a cast of three—Peter Tate, Ryan Gage and David Schaal—the play opens for a limited run at the Arts Theatre in London's West End in January 2013. Vergette talks to David Chadderton about the background to the play's development and the issues that it tries to highlight. For more information, see www.americanjusticetheplay.com or www.artstheatrewestend.co.uk.
21 Des 201217min
David Chadderton talks to the principal cast members of The Lion King tour in Manchester
On the day of its opening at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, David Chadderton speaks to some of the principal cast members of Disney's The Lion King, currently on its first ever UK tour. We speak to Carole Stennett who plays Nala, Nicholas Nkuna who plays Simba, Stephen Carlile who plays Scar and Gugwama Dlamini who plays Rafiki.
5 Des 201217min
