Director Sam Yates on the political dimension of Shakespeare’s late plays and making his debut in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Q&A and Interviews
8 December 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Sara Pascoe: “Christmas gigs are horrible for stand-up comedians.”
By Andrew Youngson
Sara Pascoe talks to Andrew Youngson about bringing her Christmas Assembly to the Battersea Arts Centre and why Christmas time is crap for comedians.
7 December 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
David Wood: “Children have not lost their sense of wonder.”
By Miriam Gillinson
David Wood on adapting Roald Dahl for the stage, talking tigers, and the lack of critical engagement with children’s theatre.
1 December 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Will Adamsdale: “Sometimes it’s hard to be this guy because he’s so crazy”
By Andrew Youngson
Andrew Youngson speaks to Perrier Award winner Will Adamsdale about bringing his manic motivational speaker, Chris John Jackson, to the BAC for a special Christmas seminar.
25 November 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Clive Judd: “All my work is about men in crisis.”
By Tim Bano
Tim Bano talks to the director about role-swapping, Simon Stephens, career paths and the full experience of being human.
25 November 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
James Garnon: “You can’t sit back, you have to sit forward. What’s the point otherwise?”
By Tim Bano
On Pericles and the particular magic of performing at the Globe and in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
10 November 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Matt Berry: “There’s always another idea round the corner.”
By Tim Bano
Tim Bano talks to actor, writer and musician, Matt Berry, about the ethics of voiceover work, the London Dungeons and Stephen Toast.
6 November 2015
Features • Performance • Q&A and Interviews
Accidental Collective: “It’s a million miles away from what we thought we were making.”
By David Ralf
Accidental Collective’s Daisy Orton and Pablo Pakula discuss their new show about hope.
3 November 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Deborah Pearson: “We are all on this merry go round made of time together”
By Catherine Love
Catherine Love talks to the co-founder of Forest Fringe about time, mortality and being ‘here.’
2 November 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Jon Brittain & Vinay Patel: “More Stories, Told Well”
By Jon Brittain
A discussion of identity politics, appropriation, trans narratives & the ownership of stories.
26 October 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Alistair McDowall: “I Spend a Lot of Time on the Internet.”
By Andrew Haydon
Andrew Haydon talks to the playwright about the inspiration behind Pomona, the influence of the internet on his work, and the changing face of Manchester.
19 October 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Stewart Lee: “The most controversial thing you can do is be sincere in a world of irony.”
By Andrew Haydon
Talking journalism, live art, the comedy circuit, The Fall, and access to education, among other things.
17 October 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Tim Casson: “Letters give you insights into someone’s psyche”
By Andrew Youngson
London dancer-choreographer Tim Casson is up in Aberdeen to turn correspondence into dance.
15 October 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Jen Malarkey: “I enjoy a lack of moderation.”
By Billy Barrett
Billy Barrett talks to the director about the “gritty wrongness” of I Heart Catherine Pistachio.
12 October 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
In League with Reece Shearsmith
By Tim Bano
Tim Bano talks writing, acting and reinventing with the Inside No 9 creator and Hangmen actor at the Royal Court.