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The Seagull
Director Stephen Unwin talks about Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull
The Painter of Signs
Discussion of the play of the novel by RK Narayan - The Painter of Signs
People are Living There
South African playwright Athol Fugard talks about his play People are Living There
Mosquitoes
The play Mosquitoes recalls the story of Ronald Ross who discovered malaria transmission
Looking For Mr Big
A discussion of the play Looking for Mr Big
The Job of the Repetiteur
John Shea talks about the piano at rehearsals of an opera
Brief Lives
Michael Williams plays John Aubrey, a diarist/gossip living in the 17th Century
An Enemy of The People
Ian McKellen talks about playing Dr Tomas Stockmann in the play by Henrik Ibsen
Jane Eyre
Polly Teale's adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel Jane Eyre
My Boy Jack
Jack is Rudyard Kipling's son, David Haig discusses Kipling's role in Jack's death
Playing Juliet
Zoe Waites talks about playing Juliet in the RSC production of Romeo and Juliet
Orpheus
Nick Philippou discusses Orpheus and its themes of loss, grief, mourning - and joy
The Chairs
Director Simon McBurney discusses the play The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco
Pierce Brosnan on Being James Bond
"He can't be the Bond we had in the '60s... but he does like women enormously"
Pantomime - Cinderella
Prince Charming is a guest on a chat show when the glass slipper is given to Cinderella
Little Eyolf
Joanne Pearce on being Rita Allmers in Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf
The Speculator
Stephen Wyatt on his adaptation of The Speculator
Peter Pan
John Caird's stage adaptation of JM Barrie's Peter Pan
Amadeus
"He adores Mozart's music and realises his own mediocrity. And there lies the pain"
Play Not Known
Two characters battle over the legacy of Che Guevara, 20 years after his death
Signing for Deaf Audiences
Peter Llewellyn-Jones discusses his approach to signing plays for deaf audiences
An International Radio Playwriting Competition winner talks about her work and characters
The Front Page
Actor Alun Armstrong discusses his character, an editor at the Chicago Examiner
Death by Heroine
Playwright and director Mehrdad Seyf talks about his play Death by Heroine
Flight
Ron Hutchinson on Mikhail Bulgakov's play
Bernard Kops
Bernard Kops talks about the Holocaust poet Paul Celan and his own writing
Norman Rodway talks about his character Alfred, a foreign secretary
Salzburg in London
Stage dramatist Marcy Kahan talks about her thriller Salzburg in London
Cause Célèbre
Amanda Harris talks about her role as Alma Rattenbury in Terence Rattigan's Cause Célèbre
Modern Opera
"The newsreader is the closest thing we've got to a storyteller today"
Art
Yasmina Reza talks about her play about the breakup of a friendship