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It's hard to believe it is finally here, but we are wrapping up our Romeo and Juliet series this week by watching and discussing two productions. First, we will discuss Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the title roles. Then, we will move into the National Theatre at Home production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Simon Godwin and starring Jessie Buckley and Josh O'Connor.  Not enough Romeo and Juliet? Paid Patreon members can access our bonus episodes on Gnomeo & Juliet and the 2022 film Rosaline and suggest other adaptations we should watch for future Patreon bonus episodes! Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com You can support the podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/shakespeareanyone  or by shopping our bookshelves at bookshop.org/shop/shakespeareanyonepod Works referenced: Godwin, Simon, director. Romeo and Juliet. National Theatre at Home, National Theatre, 2021, https://www.ntathome.com/romeo-juliet. Accessed 2024. Luhrmann, Baz, director. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1996.    

In Act II of Jonny's chat with Simon they discuss the difference between immersion and identification; how much mystery Simon leaves in his understanding of a play; the director's 3am thinks; why Simon has no problem with leaving a show; how directing can be like working in HR, his love of first days; Shakespeare's school of life; what Simon fears most in the theatre- and why A Christmas Carol at The Tabard theatre is so special to him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's guest is Simon Godwin, one of the finest directors on either side of the Atlantic. Simon sits down with Jonny in majestic surroundings (work with me here) and they discuss how Simon (and Hamlet) came to Jonny's aid when he was trying to buy a house; how Simon assembled the site-specific Macbeth that is currently playing; his three play collaboration with its star, Ralph Fiennes; the difference between certainty and confidence; why he suddenly stopped his directing career to go and train his body- and what Rupert Goold said to him as he was leaving; the moment that sticks in Jonny's memory when he was directed by Simon - and Simon's lockdown Romeo and Juliet starring Josh O'Connor and Jessie Buckley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for an enthralling conversation, as esteemed Welsh actor Steffan Rhodri takes centre stage in this week's episode. From his latest role in Simon Godwin's adaptation of Macbeth to his iconic portrayal of Dave Coaches in Gavin and Stacey, Steffan is truly one of our most versatile and talented actors. In this episode, he zones in on a particularly memorable time at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, sharing anecdotes of Terry Hands' sonnet sessions and Nicol Williamson walking off-stage mid-show. Together with Lucy, he explores timeless themes explored in Shakespeare's works and explains why it was so important that his Dad got to see him play Edgar.Hear Me Out is hosted by Lucy Eaton, a theatre producer and West End / screen actress best known for her role as Lucy in hit BBC comedy ‘Staged'. Other episodes of Hear Me Out include Toby Stephens, J. Smith Cameron, Patricia Hodge and Freddie Fox.Follow us on TikTok, Instagram and X at @PodHearMeOut.** Join the family by subscribing on iTunes or becoming a Hear Me Out Patreon! www.patreon.com/podhearmeout **Now in the Top 10 theatre podcasts on Feedspot: https://blog.feedspot.com/theatre_pod...A Lucy Eaton Productions podcast. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Broadway and off-Broadway veteran who has starred in dozens of productions, Patrick Page is currently performing in the hit play All the Devils Are Here at the DR2 Theatre. Directed by Simon Godwin, this riveting show explores Shakespeare's most fascinating villains. A Tony nominee for his portrayal of Hades in Hadestown, some of Patrick's other credits include Saint Joan, Casa Valentina, A Time to Kill, Spring Awakening, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, A Man for All Seasons, Julius Caesar, The Lion King and on and on. This Grammy-winning gifted actor has also appeared on TV and film in The Gilded Age, Elementary, Spirited, In the Heights, Estella Scrooge, and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William Shakespeare started writing plays in an era when popular theater was exploding and cementing its place in culture. Audiences spanned economic classes, professions and educational backgrounds, and he was keenly aware of the need to write for all attendees. He frequently wrestled with topics that retain relevance for society across centuries, such as power struggles, relationships, politics, and love. Not only are Shakespeare's plays still performed constantly, but his storylines and themes are also frequently borrowed for contemporary entertainment. The Scottish actor Brian Cox has performed classic Shakespeare roles, including King Lear, hundreds of times on stage. Most recently he played the iconic patriarch Logan Roy on HBO's “Succession,” a modern King Lear story. Simon Godwin, the artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C., is tasked with keeping Shakespeare's work fresh with every new season and reaching a broad cross-section of audience members. Both joined entertainment leader and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner for a conversation at the festival about Shakepeare's timeless messages and storylines. aspenideas.org

Welcome back to the 124th episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. With the theatres on a come back we offer a mix of both reviews of live shows we've seen and continued reviews of prophet productions! For our 124th episode we discuss the National Theatre's 2017 production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by Simon Godwin, and starring Tamsin Greig in the role of Malvolia. Watch the play on NTatHome (subscription needed): https://www.ntathome.com/twelfth-night  Follow our panelists: Mackenzie Horner (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: BeforetheDownbeat Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAu Dewey Stewart – Instagram: @deweystew YouTube: @dewystew56   Jillian Robinson – Instagram: @jillian.robinson96 Ryan Borochovitz – [Just send all that love to CoH instead; he won't mind!] Follow Cup of Hemlock Theatre on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: @cohtheatre --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cup-of-hemlock-theatre/support

You might recognize Patrick Page from films like Spirited, or shows like The Gilded Age, or from his Broadway roles as Hades in Hadestown for which he was nominated for a Tony. But Page is also an accomplished Shakespearean, with a long relationship with Washington, DC's Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he's played Prospero, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Iago, and now King Lear. Page talks with Barbara Bogaev about getting inside Lear's head and his long fascination with Shakespeare's villains. King Lear, starring Page and directed by Simon Godwin, is onstage at Shakespeare Theatre Company through April 16. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published March 14, 2023. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This episode was produced by Matt Frassica. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer. Leonor Fernandez edits a transcript of every episode, available at folger.edu. We had technical help from Ellen Rolfes in Washington, D.C. and Evan Marquart at Voice Trax West in Studio City, California. Final mixing services provided by Clean Cuts at Three Seas, Inc.

Imagine this: you've spent months, years even, working on a show. Now it's press night. Sat in a silent row, or peppered around the theatre, are the people whose life's work is to criticise yours - the critics. So what's it like when your lovingly crafted new play opens and you see them out there, ready to tell the world what they think of it? Top theatre director Simon Godwin, who's worked at the National Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic and is now at Washington DC's Shakespeare Theatre Company, bares his soul about how it really feels when the lights go down and the little notebooks come out. Presenter: Luke Jones Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton

In a classic riches-to-rags story, the wealthy and generous Timon goes from commissioning artwork and giving interest free loans to subsisting on roots and railing against humanity in Shakespeare's bleak comedy. The atmosphere is lightened somewhat by how he seeks revenge on his faithless creditors and his city as a whole through practical jokes, the machinations of a dishonored general, and a cadre of women working in the world's oldest profession. Will and James discuss just how sorry we should actually feel for Timon, how to deal with bosses that don't want to hear bad news, and what the Bard can teach us about the National Security Council. // Credits // Intro Music: Jon Sayles, "The Witches' Dance" (composed by anonymous); Outro Music: Jon Sayles, “Saltarello” (composed by anonymous); Illustrative Excerpts: Al Jolson, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” NBC (1932); "Timon of Athens," dir. Robert B. Loper, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1955); Nia Gwynne, "Timon of Athens," dir. Simon Godwin, Royal Shakespeare Company (2018)

New company is coming to Northern Virginia! Starkist, the tuna company, is relocating its headquarters from Pittsburgh to Reston, VA in April 2022. On Friday, June 18, the Ceremonial First Pitch will be thrown by U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, the local hero that diverted rioters away from lawmakers during the storming of the Capitol. Georgetown's Crumbs & Whiskers cat cafe is reopening for business; shut down over a year ago, patrons will be able to get a coffee and hang out with some kittens. Capital Pride weekend in DC officially kicks off this weekend with their theme Colorful. Emma Coronel Aispuro, aka the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded guilty to multiple drug and money laundering charges as part of a plea deal. She has been in detention in Northern Virginia since being picked up at Dulles Airport in February. Simon Godwin, Artistic Director of the DC Shakespeare Company, joins us to share details about the new Britney Spears themed production, Once Upon a One More Time, coming this fall. From Real.Fun.DC. “The Tommy + Kelly Show” is produced in Washington, DC providing news, culture, playful conversation, positive energy, and a dose of morning fun any time. Download the Real.Fun.DC. APP to check out our wide array of programming Follow Kelly Collis Instagram and Twitter: @CityShopGirl LinkedIN: Kelly Collis Follow Tommy McFLY Twitter: @TommyMcFLY Instagram: @MrTommyMcFLY LinkedIN: Tommy McFLY

When the pandemic hit London, director Simon Godwin's National Theatre production of “Romeo & Juliet” shut down before it could open. So Godwin shot the play as a movie — never mind that he had never picked up a camera and couldn’t film outside the theater. Even without a trip to fair Verona, Godwin shot his movie, starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley, in a mere 17 days. 

The National Theatre’s new production of "Romeo and Juliet" was meant to premiere in the summer of 2020. But when the COVID-19 pandemic began, Simon Godwin, the production’s director, was tasked with turning it into a 90-minute film shot entirely in the National’s Littleton Theatre. Now, as the film approaches its United States premiere, Godwin sees "Romeo and Juliet" as a play uniquely suited to our pandemic moment. We spoke with him about how the pandemic affected the production logistically and thematically, as well as about learning how to direct a film and working with actors like Josh O’Connor, Jessie Buckley, and Tamsin Grieg. Godwin is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. "Romeo and Juliet" airs in the United States at 9 pm EDT on April 23—Shakespeare’s birthday—on PBS Great Performances. Simon Godwin is the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published Tuesday, April 13. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, “Never Was a Story of More Woe,” was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer. Leonor Fernandez edits a transcript of every episode, available at folger.edu. We had technical help from Andrew Feliciano and Paul Luke at Voice Trax West in Studio City, California.

...what can one say about the Melancholy Dane that hasn’t already been said? It’s the big one, the work that casts the longest shadow in all of English literature outside of the King James Bible. We quote it without thinking. It helped inspire The Lion King. And its most famous soliloquy has launched a thousand parodies. Will and James break down the epic monologues, the bloody action, the meditations on mortality, depression, mental illness, tortured love affairs, murder, suicide, conspiracy, invasion, and a savagely bloody denouement in which (spoiler alert!) everyone dies. // CREDITS // Intro Music: Jon Sayles, "The Witches' Dance" (composed by anonymous); Outro Music: Jon Sayles, “Saltarello” (composed by anonymous); Illustrative Excerpts: “Tales from the Public Domain,” The Simpsons, dir., Mike B. Anderson (2002); “Hamlet,” feat. Kenneth Branagh, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1996); John Gielgud,“Ages of Man,” Caedmon Records (1959); “Hamlet,” feat. Clarence Smith, dir. Simon Godwin, Royal Shakespeare Company (2016); “Hamlet,” feat. Bill Murray, dir. Michael Almereyda (2000); “Hamlet,” feat. Andrew Scott, dir. Robert Icke (2017); “Hamlet,” feat. David Tennant, dir. Gregory Doran (2009)

Arts Minister Caroline Dinenage on the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis. We put questions to her from arts organisations around the country. Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birthday. To celebrate, actor Paapa Essiedu performs the iconic “To Be or Not To Be” soliloquy from Hamlet for us live from his home. Paapa played Hamlet in Simon Godwin’s highly acclaimed 2016 production at the RSC, which transplanted the action from Denmark to West Africa. It will be available to watch on iPlayer from tomorrow as part of the BBC’s Culture in Quarantine series. How can personal tragedy inspire comedy? Alice Fraser and Darren Harriott discuss talking about the death of a parent on stage – why do it, how do they make it work, and what has been the audience’s reaction. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Simon Richardson Studio Manager: Tim Heffer

Director Simon Godwin (Antony & Cleopatra, Man + Superman) and writer Simon Woods reflect on their new production of Hansard

In the final episode of the series, Ben Lawrence chairs a discussion with Simon Godwin and Dr Sarah Dustagheer about what Timon of Athens says about our current credit culture and how its cynical tone reflects the troubled state of early 17th-century England.     For more, visit www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-shakespeare-company/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Join the director as he reflects on his production of Antony & Cleopatra, with Fiona Mountford.

In this week's program, I tell you why this didn't post on Thursday and why it has to do with Theresa Rebeck & my day job. Four theatres announce their upcoming seasons. Two theatres choose new ADs. The Horton Foote prizes for plays are announced. Theresa Rebeck, Theresa Rebeck, Theresa Rebeck which is also Something I Had To Share With You... JOIN THE MAILING LIST SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS Red Bull Theater, NYC Soho Rep, NYC Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, MO Washington Stage Guild, DC WHO'S IN AND WHO'S OUT Shakepeare Theatre Company in DC chooses Simon Godwin as new AD Johanna Pfaelzer will be the new AD at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in CA ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS Lauren Yee & Jaclyn Backhaus win Horton Foote Prize for Plays NYTimes.com article about Theresa Rebeck, "She's not revered, and she should be." SOMETHING I HAD TO SHARE WITH YOU... I discuss seeing Theresa Rebeck's new play, Bernhardt/Hamlet and provide an additional article about Sarah Bernhardt from BBC.COM  THANKS FOR LISTENING AND HAVE A CREATIVE DAY!!!  

In this episode, we finish our discussion of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2016 production of Hamlet directed by Simon Godwin and starring the 25-year-old Paapa Essiedu. This is part 2/2 of our discussion of the production, and it focuses on Essiedu's superlative performance and the curated information loss from recording the production. 0:00–4:20 What to do about the much-hated Osric/Reynaldo 4:20–7:12 Ophelia's death 7:12–20:32 Paapa Essiedu's dirtbag teenage Hamlet 20:32–35:52 How the production was recorded Host: Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) Guests: Noemi Berkowitz (@noemiola), Mary Angela Rowe (@lapsedvictorian), and Lesley Peterson Editor and Producer: Cam White (@JediDusk) Follow us on Twitter @21stFolio and find us online at 21stFolio.com. The 21st Folio is a subsidiary of Seventh Row (@SeventhRow), seventh-row.com

"Love me / Not your idea of me! / Release me / From your fantasy." - Silvia in the 1971 rock musical 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'   We explore the critical and popular history of 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' from the Elizabethan age to the 1970s counter-culture, by way of light opera, Machiavelli, and the British Invasion! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or by email at podcastshakespeare@gmail.com. You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, or download direct from Libsyn. We also have a brand spanking new Spotify playlist, which will be updated each week as we work through the plays. The website for the podcast is https://podcastshakespeare.com/. On the website, you can find an evolving bibliography, Contents: 00:00 The play in Shakespeare's time 18:40 A critical history 40:05 Some literary moments 44:03 A stage history 1:07:23 Staging the final scene 1:13:48 Two Gentlemen: The Musical 1:22:36 A screen history 1:28:04 Music and art Links mentioned: Diana, pastoral romance by Jorge de Montemayor Ovid, Metamorphoses David Bergeron, "Wherefore Verona in ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’?", Comparative Drama vol. 41 (JSTOR access required) Two Gentlemen in the film Shakespeare in Love Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) and the Nurse (Imelda Staunton) discussing the play in Shakespeare in Love Elizabeth Rivlin, "Mimetic Service in The Two Gentlemen of Verona", ELH vol. 72 (Project Muse access required) W.E. Stephenson, "The Adolescent Dream-World of the Two Gentlemen of Verona", Shakespeare Quarterly vol. 17 (JSTOR access required) Joan Crawford and Ann Blyth in Mildred Pierce, 1945 Kate Winslet and Evan Rachel Wood in Mildred Pierce, 2011 Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare, 1807 Machiavelli on wolves and lions Henry Rowley Bishop's gorgeous music for Frederick Reynolds’ 1821 operatic version Stanley Wells’ 'Shakespeare For All Time', since I’m going to quote this super legend so often Peter Hall's 1960 RSC production Robin Phillips' 1970 RSC production David Thacker's 1991 RSC production Joe Dowling's 2009 Guthrie Theatre production Simon Godwin's 2014 RSC production on DVD A fantastic website on the 1971 rock musical China's A Spray of Plum Blossoms, 1931 The BBC production at the fantastic BBC Shakespeare blog Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Barbra Streisand - An Silvia A history of Sir Eglamour William Holman Hunt's Valentine Rescuing Silvia Miscellaneous artworks at Wikimedia   Clips: The Honeycombs, Who is Sylvia, 1966 Fionnuala Ward, Who is Sylvia (from 5 Shakespeare Songs), Les Sirènes Female Chamber Choir  Mark Stone / Stephen Barlowe, performing Roger Quilter's Who is Silvia  Nino Rota's "Love theme from Romeo and Juliet" C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective performing Jaakko Mäntyjärvi's Who is Sylvia from More Shakespeare Songs (1997)   Elisabeth Schwarzkopf performing Schubert’s An Silvia The 1971 rock musical with Raúl Julia (Proteus), Jonelle Allen (Sylvia), Clifton Davis (Valentine), Diana Davila (Julia), Sheila Gibbs, Signa Joy, Kenneth Lowry, Sakinah Mahammud (Quartet)

"He after honour hunts, I after love" - Proteus We begin our three-episode investigation of 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', arguably the Bard's first play, circa 1589. Join me for a journey through the highs and lows of the plot, by way of Greek mythology, why the Ancients liked green honey, and our first casual bigotry alerts! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or by email at podcastshakespeare@gmail.com. You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, or download direct from Libsyn. We also have a brand spanking new Spotify playlist, which will be updated each week as we work through the plays. The website for the podcast is https://podcastshakespeare.com/. On the website, you can find an evolving bibliography. Links mentioned: The Grand Tour of Europe Don Quixote The Hellespont Hero and Leander (excerpts) by Christopher Marlowe Isaac Asimov, Guide to Shakespeare Harold Bloom, The Invention of the Human Mythological Proteus Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare's Cure for Xenophobia, The New Yorker, June 2017 The senex iratus Unseen characters on television Medieval and Renaissance manuals on chivalry Saint Sebastian Derek Jarman's 'Sebastiane' 'Who is Silvia?' text Dame Janet Baker singing 'Who is Silvia?' by Franz Schubert, with Murray Perahia on piano And also Barbra Streisand for some reason...? Thou, thee, and so on Augustus Leopold Egg, 'Launce's Substitute for Proteus' Dog', oil on canvas, 1849 Ancient Greek colour vision Harold Goddard's The Meaning of Shakespeare Clips: Opening and closing: Henry Rowley Bishop, "Who is Sylvia?", for the Frederic Reynolds production, Covent Garden, 1821 - Philip Pickett, Susan Gritton et al Arkangel Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, 2006, d: Clive Brill with Damian Lewis (Valentine), Michael Maloney (Proteus), Saskia Wickham (Silvia) Royal Shakespeare Company, Two Gentlemen of Verona, 2014, d: Simon Godwin with Mark Arends (Proteus), Michael Marcus (Valentine), Martin Bassindale (Speed) Marlowe Society, Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1959, d: George Rylands with Olive Gregg (Julia) Oregon Shakespeare Company, Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1957, d: James Sandoe with William Oyler (Valentine), Doris Viola (Julia), Nagle Jackson (Speed), Marcia Thayer (Lucetta), Jim Sheldon (Thurio) BBC Complete Works, Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1983, d: Don Taylor, p: Shaun Sutton with Tony Haygarth (Launce), Tyler Butterworth (Proteus), Paul Daneman (Duke of Milan), Andrew Burt (Third Outlaw) Gerald Finzi, "Who is Sylvia?" from 'Let Us Garlands Bring' (1942) with Martin Vögerl - singer, Mira Teofilova - piano

Director Simon Godwin talks about his production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Brought up by a single mum in Finsbury Park, North London, Naomie Harris now finds herself nominated for an Oscar for her role in Moonlight and this week received an OBE from the Queen. She's had a career playing strong, tough women; killing zombies in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and playing a modern, kick-ass Moneypenny in the latest James Bond films. She's not new to fame, she started acting at a young age and first appeared on TV at the age of nine but, as you'll hear, that lead to her being bullied at school. Guests include her drama teacher Anna Scher and theatre director Simon Godwin.

Paapa Essiedu is the first black actor to play Hamlet for the RSC in a new production opening in Stratford directed by Simon Godwin. Booker short listed writer Deborah Levy explores the complex emotional dynamics of the mother / daughter relationship in her new novel Hot Milk. Court is Mumbai born Chaitanya Tamhane's feature film debut - an Indian courtroom drama film which explores the limitations of Indian legal system through the trial of an elderly folk singer at a Sessions Court in Mumbai. Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century at the V&A in London shows how the pioneering American photographer defined the way in which fine art and documentary photography is understood and practised today in the first major retrospective of his work for 40 years. And barrister turned writer Peter Moffat's new political thriller Undercover on BBC One, stars Sophie Okonedo as Maya, who is about to be appointed as the first black Director of Public Prosecutions. Adrian Lester plays her husband Nick, an under cover police officer with a complex past. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Arts Editor at the New Statesman, Kate Mossman, novelist Patrick Gale and writer Susan Jeffreys.

The director talks to Fiona Mountford about his new production of Farquhar's comedy, The Beaux' Stratagem.

Are work and progress making us inhuman? Anne McElvoy is joined by Steve Hilton, a former Senior Advisor to David Cameron, and Peter Fleming, Professor of Business and Society at City University, London. Actor Julian Glover performs an extract from Beowulf and talks about reworking the Old English poem for the stage. And New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell joins director Simon Godwin to discuss a new production of The Beaux' Stratagem at the National Theatre.

The director talks about his new production of Man and Superman and the challenges of staging Bernard Shaw's witty, provocative classic.

Simon Godwin talks about directing Strange Interlude, Eugene O'Neill and making his National Theatre debut.