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Directors, performers and theatre staff discuss their work

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Playing Juliet
Zoe Waites talks about playing Juliet in the RSC production of Romeo and Juliet
11 Nov 1997,4 mins
My Boy Jack
Jack is Rudyard Kipling's son, David Haig discusses Kipling's role in Jack's death
31 Oct 1997,4 mins
Jane Eyre
Polly Teale's adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel Jane Eyre
27 Oct 1997,4 mins
An Enemy of The People
Ian McKellen talks about playing Dr Tomas Stockmann in the play by Henrik Ibsen
22 Oct 1997,4 mins
Brief Lives
Michael Williams plays John Aubrey, a diarist/gossip living in the 17th Century
15 Oct 1997,4 mins
The Job of the Repetiteur
John Shea talks about the piano at rehearsals of an opera
02 Oct 1997,4 mins
Looking For Mr Big
A discussion of the play Looking for Mr Big
01 Oct 1997,4 mins
Mosquitoes
The play Mosquitoes recalls the story of Ronald Ross who discovered malaria transmission
23 Sep 1997,4 mins
People are Living There
South African playwright Athol Fugard talks about his play People are Living There
12 Sep 1997,3 mins
The Painter of Signs
Discussion of the play of the novel by RK Narayan - The Painter of Signs
07 Sep 1997,3 mins
The Seagull
Director Stephen Unwin talks about Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull
04 Sep 1997,4 mins
Grace Note
Playwright Samuel Adamson gives some background on his play Grace Note
26 Aug 1997,3 mins
The Herbal Bed
"She's a free-thinking spirit" Kate Duchêne on playing Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna
20 Aug 1997,4 mins
Voices on The Wind
Tanika Gupta describes the actions of Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary Dinesh Gupta, as outlined in her book, Voices On The Wind.
12 Aug 1997,4 mins
Uncle Vanya vs The Wood Demon
Director Anthony Clark discusses Anton Chekhov's plays Uncle Vanya and The Wood Demon
04 Aug 1997,3 mins
Opera Singer Sally Burgess
Mezzo soprano Sally Burgess talks about opera, concerts and jazz caberet
30 Jul 1997,5 mins
Damn Yankees
Joe Boyd sells his soul to the devil for becoming the world's greatest baseball player
22 Jul 1997,4 mins
Marlene
Siân Phillips talks about playing Marlene Dietrich in Pam Gems's play Marlene
09 Jul 1997,4 mins
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ian Talbot on producing A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare at the Open Air Theatre
19 Jun 1997,4 mins
The Monkey King
The legend of The Monkey King set in 1950s Hong Kong
13 Jun 1997,4 mins
The Goodbye Girl
Gary Wilmot talks about the musical by Neil Simon, David Zippel and by Marvin Hamlisch
06 Jun 1997,4 mins
Anna Karenina
David Hitchinson talks about his four part adaptation of Anna Karenina. How did he do it?
05 Jun 1997,4 mins
Way Upstream
Russell Dixon who is starring in the Alan Ayckbourn play Way Upstream talks about the play
03 Jun 1997,4 mins
Alby James
The scriptwriter Alby James discusses a story about a young Muslim Somali girl
22 May 1997,4 mins
A Very Rare Bird Indeed
Actress Judi Dench discusses her latest role in Peter Tinniswood's A Very Rare Bird Indeed
15 May 1997,4 mins
Animal Farm
Actors talking about the stage show production of George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm
15 May 1997,4 mins
Mirad - A Boy from Bosnia
Ad de Bont talks about his play Mirad - A Boy from Bosnia about the refugees of war
29 Apr 1997,4 mins
The Glass Menagerie
Discussion of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams with Laura Taylor
28 Apr 1997,3 mins
Lady in the Dark
The Broadway musical written by Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin and Moss Hart
24 Apr 1997,4 mins
Caryl Churchill
The non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes of dramatist Caryl Churchill
11 Apr 1997,4 mins