Podcasts about drama christian burgess

Actors Oscar Batterham, Alex Knox, Rebecca Lee, Amber James and Alice Winslow join us in the studio to talk about suffragette-based play Her Naked Skin, including meeting the writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz, working with Director of Drama Christian Burgess, and recreating what was called 'the most horrific incident on a London stage' by a 2008 National Theatre review.

Director of Drama Christian Burgess directs the world premiere of Badenheim 1939, Arnold Wesker's adaptation of the Aharon Appelfeld novel, opening on 26 November. He talks about this major project featuring Guildhall actors & musicians in collaboration. First published 22 November 2010.

Director of Drama Christian Burgess discusses his upcoming production, a devised piece of theatre called ...think only this of me... featuring a multi-disciplinary cast of Guildhall musicians and actors. He talks about the challenges of rehearsing a devised piece, and what students will take away from it. First published 29 November 2011.

Director of Drama Christian Burgess introduces the first play of the year, Lorca’s classic Blood Wedding, and describes why he chose it for this year’s cohort of actors. Cast members Sophie Khan Levy, Alex Large, Ben Schnetzer and Evelyn Miller discuss their roles and how they’ve approached them in this critical final year of their training. First published 25 September 2012.

With John Wilson. David Hare's 2011 TV film Page Eight starred Bill Nighy as idealistic MI5 officer Johnny Worricker. Now Hare has written and directed two follow up films, Turks and Caicos and Salting the Battlefield, beginning where the last film left off with Johnny on the run from the British government after stealing an incriminating document. Ralph Fiennes, Winona Ryder and Helena Bonham Carter co-star. Folk musician Sixto Rodriguez released a couple of albums in the 1970s and then drifted into obscurity. Unbeknownst to him his music, and especially his song Sugarman, went on to become iconic in South Africa as anthems for the anti-apartheid struggle. The award-winning 2012 documentary Searching for Sugarman, which traced his revelatory trip to South Africa to meet his legion of fans, brought his music to global attention. Now 72 and touring the UK, Rodriguez discusses the impact of the rediscovery on his life since. Stage Kiss is Sarah Ruhl's play examining the onstage and offstage ramifications of locking lips night after night in front of an audience. She discusses why the subject fascinated her, with contributions from Guildhall's Director of Drama Christian Burgess and actor Jimmy Akingbola. After a week in which Amnesty International levied criticism at the Globe theatre for its decision to take a production to Hamlet to North Korea, John speaks to the theatre's Artistic Director, Dominic Dromgoole. They discuss the world tour of the play, whether cultural organisations have a moral responsibility as well as an artistic one, and whether the North Korean government have asked for any part of the play to be edited or censored.

Director of Drama Christian Burgess, Director of Acting Wyn Evans and final year actors Kate Phillips, Ben Wainwright, Jay Saighal, Joe Eyre and Jacob Fortune Lloyd discuss the first two productions in the Milton Court theatres, two of Chekhov’s finest plays: The Seagull and The Three Sisters. The group also discuss what Milton Court provides to the Drama department, how it affects their training, and how they’ve approached their roles in these productions.