NT Talks
Summary: Welcome to our collection of conversations recorded live from the National Theatre stages, including interviews with actors, directors and playwrights.
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Podcasts:
Fiona Shaw talks to Al Senter about her iconic roles at the National Theatre, directing opera, working on True Blood and her Irish roots.
Playwright Howard Barker talks to Mark Brown about his career and the National Theatre's 2012 production of Scenes From an Execution.
Philip Glenister talks to Al Senter about his role in the 2012 production of This House and his career. This is a recording of a live event from October 2012.
Simon Russell Beale talks to Al Senter about his career, including his role in Nicholas Hytner's Timon of Athens and playing Falstaff in Richard Eyre's The Hollow Crown.
Una Stubbs talks to Al Senter about her fifty-year career in film, television and on stage. She talks about her diverse projects including Sherlock, Summer Holiday, Till Death Us Do Part, Worzel Gummidge and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. This is a recording of a live event from October 2012.
Film historian Christopher Frayling talks to Joel Finler about the early Hollywood film-makers - including the Eastern Europeans Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, and Louis B Mayer - as depicted in the National Theatre play, Travelling Light. This is an archive recording of a live Platform event from April 2012.
Playwright Frank McGuinness and Dr Giles Fraser - priest-in-charge at St Mary's Newington, London and Religious Advisor on the production - discuss the representation of Christian morality in Damned by Despair. Damned by Despair opens on October 10 and runs until December 17 2012.
Stephen Beresford talks to Matt Wolf about his career and The Last of the Haussmans, his playwriting debut at the National Theatre. This is a recording of a Platform event from August 2012.
Malcolm Sinclair talks to Al Senter about his acting career, his role as President of British Actor's Equity Association and performing in George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma. This is a live recording of a Platform event from September 2012.
Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory talk to Al Senter about playing siblings in The Last of the Haussmans an their careers in film, television and on stage.
Recorded in May 2012, this Platform event celebrates the Astaire siblings who transformed musical theatre on both sides of the Atlantic at the peak of the Jazz Age. Theatre historian Kathleen Riley, author of a book on the Astaires, talks about their partnership and its legacy with Fred’s daughter, Ava Astaire McKenzie, and choreographer Matthew Bourne.
From our Archive collection, Ian McDiarmid talks to Al Senter about his time as Artistic Director of the Almeida theatre, his acting career and his role in Star Wars. This is a live recording of a Platform event from August 2011.
To mark his 80th birthday, Peter Hall discusses his career, modern theatre and his latest production of Twelfth Night, with Nicholas Hytner. This interview is a recording of a live Platform event in the Cottesloe Theatre from January 2011.
Lenny Henry talks to Al Sent about his career, his relationship with Shakespeare and his in Dominic Cooke's The Comedy of Errors. This is a video recording of a live Platform event in the Olivier Theatre from January 2012.
The actor, author and artist Antony Sher talks to Sue MacGregor about his career, and his latest role in Travelling Light. This is a recording of a live Platform event from February 2012.
