INTERVIEW: ANGUS WRIGHT. Robert Icke’s thrilling production of Hamlet starring Andrew Scott supplements the Folio from the Quartos and makes familiar lines seem new-minted. Angus Wright tells Heather Neill about playing the murderous Claudius, besotted with Juliet Stevenson’s Gertrude. The interview took place on 23 June 2017 at the Harold Pinter Theatre. “There is nothing in Hamlet’s […]

INTERVIEW: JOHN MCGRATH.  Ahead of the opening of the 2017 Manchester International Festival (MIF), artistic director John McGrath talks to Catherine Love about this year’s programme. The conversation touches on the festival’s relationship with its host city; the challenges and opportunities of programming a multi-art form festival; and the ways in which MIF artists are […]

PANEL DISCUSSION: MARK BALL, MIGUEL OYARZUN, ROWAN RUTTER. Mark Ball, outgoing Artistic Director of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT); Miguel Oyarzun, Co-director, Birmingham European (BE) Festival; Rowan Rutter, Creative Producer at Hull Truck Theatre; and Helen Gush, Assistant Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, discuss the potential opportunities and challenges presented by […]

PANEL DISCUSSION: MARTINA PUCHBERGER, KATRIN SOHNS, DAVID LAN, RAMIN GRAY, TIM SUPPLE. Martina and Katrin from the Goethe Institut; Artistic Directors David Lan (Young Vic), Ramin Gray (Actors Touring Company), and Tim Supple (Dash Arts); and Dr. Duška Radosavljević from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama discuss what Brexit might mean for the future relationship […]

CONCLUSIONS: PROFESSOR MARIA DELGADO. Maria Delgado, Director of Research at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, reflects on the discussions at the conference ‘Brexit the Stage: What Next for British Theatre and Europe?’, which was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Saturday 22 April as part of the V&A Performance Festival. Recorded on 22 […]

INTERVIEW: STEPHEN UNWIN. Writer and director Stephen Unwin talks to TheatreVOICE about his new and intensely personal play All Our Children, which is showing at the Jermyn Street Theatre until 3 June 2017. This play turns the spotlight on a lesser-known Nazi atrocity – the mass killings of disabled children and focuses on one of the so-called […]

INTERVIEW: RALPH KOLTAI. Theatre designer Ralph Koltai has been a leader in his field for 67 years, influencing generations of designers in theatre and opera. In this interview with TheatreVOICE’s Heather Neill, Koltai looks back over a distinguished career, encompassing innovation and controversy. This is Part One of a two-part interview recorded at the Victoria […]

INTERVIEW: RALPH KOLTAI. Theatre designer Ralph Koltai has been a leader in his field for 67 years, influencing generations of designers in theatre and opera. In this interview with TheatreVOICE’s Heather Neill, Koltai looks back over a distinguished career, encompassing innovation and controversy. This is Part Two of a two-part interview recorded at the Victoria […]

INTERVIEW: TIM MCMULLAN. Tim McMullan is an original Sir Toby Belch in a National Theatre production of Twelfth Night, which has many unusual features, not least a female Malvolio, renamed Malvolia, played by Tamsin Greig. At the heart of Simon Godwin’s riotously funny production, McMullan and Daniel Rigby as Sir Andrew make a hilarious double act, […]

INTERVIEW: PAUL MASON. The former economics editor of Newsnight and Channel 4 News, author of Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future and Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere talks to Dominic Cavendish about bringing the latter to the stage at the Young Vic in a unique experiment with the BBC, and his playwriting debut Divine Chaos […]