Random National Theatre Podcasts

Taken from the National Theatre Archive of Platform events. In 2004 a conversation took place between Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, and Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury about religious education and the representation of religion in drama and entertainment, at the National Theatre, in front of a live audience. This is an audio recording of that event.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, drama, Entertainment, National Theatre, philip pullman, Platform, religion

Running alongside Jonathan Miller’s extraordinary career in revue, television, the theatre and opera has been a fascination with the visual arts. As a practitioner, Miller has concentrated on assemblages – of discarded metal, which he beats and welds into sculpture, or of old and tattered posters, which he photographs, or reconstitutes as montages. This collection of films was made to support his exhibition at the National Theatre in 2011. In these films he talks candidly about his work and fertile preoccupation with the negligible.

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Tags: Jonathan Miller, National Theatre, One Thing and Another exhibition

Arthur Miller’s plays, The Crucible, All My Sons, A View from the Bridge and Death of a Salesman, have been embraced all around the world. His work embodies the public issues of his day, translating them into terms of the private conscience. In this audio podcast from 1984 Arthur Miller reads from his log of Death of a Salesman in Beijing. Taken from the National Theatre Archive of Platform events.

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Tags: A View from the bridge, All My Sons, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, National Theatre, platforms, The Crucible

This is a collection of short films looking at current and upcoming National Theatre productions, including The James Plays by Runo Munro and Here Lies Love, a revolutionary musical experience from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Ballyturk, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Cillian Murphy, David Hare, Enda Walsh, Helen McCrory, James Plays, Katherine Boo, Lesley Sharp, Medea, Meera Syal, National Theatre, Othello, Polly Stenham, Sean O'Casey, Shakespeare, The James Plays, theatre

Welcome to our collection of conversations recorded live from the National Theatre stages, including interviews with actors, directors and playwrights.

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Tags: London, National Theater, National Theatre, theater, theatre

A podcast about reading plays.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: book, Books, Broadway, caryl churchill, chicago theatre, come and see, Comedy, commentary, criticism, drama, eugene o'neil, goodman, harold pinter, ike holter, National Theatre, new, new plays, new work, Off-Broadway, Philosophy, play writing, plays, Playwright, playwrighting, read, Reading, review, royal court, sean dance, sean dance fannin, steppenwolf, theater, theatre, writing

To mark his 80th birthday, the director Peter Hall discusses his career, modern theatre and his latest production of Twelfth Night, with Nicholas Hytner. This interview was a platform event and took place in the Cottesloe Theatre in January 2011.

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Tags: National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, Peter Hall, theater, Twelfth Night

Lenny Henry talks to Al Senter about his career, his relationship with Shakespeare and his role 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.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Lenny Henry, National Theatre, Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors