TheatreVoice

INTERVIEW: VICKI MORTIMER. The Olivier Award-winning theatre designer talks to David Benedict about creating the set and costumes for the National Theatre’s big-budget revival of Follies. They discuss how her design differs from the usual stagings of Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical and examine the processes for creating large-scale designs. Recorded at the National Theatre on […]

INTERVIEW: DAVID ELDRIDGE. As his latest play Beginning prepares for a West End transfer, the Romford-born playwright tells Luke Jones about how he came to write the real-time romcom, in which two tentative Londoners inch their way together in the aftermath of a house-warming party. Talking through the mechanics and politics of realism as a […]

INTERVIEW: MICHAEL BUFFONG. Talawa Theatre’s artistic director tells Matt Trueman about the 30-year history of Britain’s first all-black theatre company, and why it still has to be all things to all people. Looking ahead to Talawa’s new staging of Frank Loesser’s musical Guys and Dolls, relocated up Broadway to Harlem, he discusses the importance of […]

INTERVIEW: HOWARD DAVIES. One of the most respected directors in British theatre, Howard Davies passed away at the end of 2016. In this archive interview, he spoke to the critic Carole Woddis about his acclaimed production of Mikhail Bulgakov’s play The White Guard, one of a number of Russian classics he staged during his 27 […]

INTERVIEW: TERENCE FRISBY. Critic Dominic Cavendish meets the playwright behind one of the biggest hit plays of the 20th Century, There’s a Girl in My Soup. An anti-rom-com about a swish television chef who falls for a younger woman, There’s a Girl in My Soup ran in the West End for almost seven years, racking […]

INTERVIEW: JUDE CHRISTIAN. The young director talks to Catherine Love about her latest production, James Fritz’s Bruntwood Award winning play Parliament Square – a piece asking questions about the possibilities of political protest in Britain today. In a wide-ranging discussion, they cover her career to date, her approach to theatrical representation and the politics of […]

INTERVIEW: NINA RAINE. Award-winning playwright and director Nina Raine talks to Matt Trueman about her most recent play, Consent, a big hit for the National Theatre in spring 2017. A look at the private lives of London lawyers, it opens out into a dense enquiry about human relationships, the nature of consent and the possibility […]

INTERVIEW: NICK STARR. As the Bridge Theatre opens its doors on the banks of the River Thames, its co-founder Nick Starr talks to Matt Trueman about the ways it will change London’s theatrical landscape. Looking back over his time as executive director of the National Theatre – 12 years that saw great organisational change including […]

INTERVIEW: MARK RYLANCE. In the autumn of 2016, Shakespeare’s Globe announced that it was parting ways with Artistic Director, Emma Rice. This provoked vigorous debate about the theatre’s role and function. In the wake of these discussions, this week’s TheatreVoice podcast delves back into the archives and revisits a 2004 interview with the first director […]

INTERVIEW: NANCY MECKLER. Shared Experience’s artistic director tells Heather Neill about her production King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe and how it connects to her wider body of work, from iconic literary adaptations to physical and collaborative practices. Recorded at Shakespeare’s Globe, 30 August and 25 September 2017. “It was so rare for a woman to […]