Interviews
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An Inspector Calls: Stephen Daldry and Giles Croft
Director Stepehn Daldry talks about his production of An Inspector Calls to Giles Croft, Literary Manager of the NT.
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In Conversation: Oliver Ford Davies
Oliver Ford Davies discusses his long career at the NT and elsewhere with Al Senter. Recorded while he was playing the Cardinal Inquisitor in The Life of Galileo.
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In Conversation: Oliver Cotton
Oliver Cotton discusses his work at the National and beyond with Al Senter. Recorded during the run of The Royal Hunt of the Sun in which Cotton played De Valverde.
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The Lear Diaries: Brian Cox
Brian Cox discusses with Jane Edwardes his experience of playing King Lear, touring the production while also appearing in Richard III, keeping a diary and the difficulty of working with two directors at once.
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Ivanov: Katie Mitchell in discussion
The director Katie Mitchell discusses her interpretation of Chekhov's first full-length play with the National's Executive Director Nick Starr.
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St Joan: Anne-Marie Duff in conversation
Anne-Marie Duff talks to Matt Wolf about her role as Joan in the 2007 NT production of Saint Joan and discusses her career and dividing her time between film, TV and theatre work.
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The Emperor Jones: Patterson Joseph talks to Al Senter
Paterson Joseph talks to Al Senter about his role as Brutus Jones in The Emperor Jones, the politics of O'Neill's play and challenges of transferring the Gate theatre's intimate production to the Olivier Theatre.
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J T Rogers on The Overwhelming
The writer of The Overwhelming discusses his work and the inspiration for the play with David Belton
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Angels in America: Tony Kushner in conversation with Adam Mars Jones
The American playwright talks about his work and his play Angels in America, with writer Adam Mars Jones. The play is subtitled A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, it confronts a variety of 1990s issues head-on using a gay relationship as a catalyst for exploring an America-in-crisis.
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The Sea: Discussion with Sam Mendes and Judi Dench
Sam Mendes, director of the 1990 NT production of Edward Bond's The Sea, and Judi Dench who plays Louise Rafi discuss the production and their work with Genista McIntosh.
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Peter Hall on The Coming of Godot
In 2006, the year of Samuel Beckett's centenary, Peter Hall recalls the original London production of Beckett's groundbreaking masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, with Jonathan Croall, author of The Coming of Godot, which celebrates the play's 50-year theatrical journey
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Nicholas Hytner on The Alchemist
The National’s Director talks about his production of Ben Jonson’s comedy of greed and gullibility to Robert Butler, author of The Alchemist Exposed in the ‘National Theatre at Work’ series.
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Rwanda: Survival against the odds
Mary Kayitesi Blewitt lost almost her entire family in the Rwandan genocide and subsequently set up the Survivors Fund. To accompany the production of The Overwhelming, she talks with other survivors about the work of the charity and the continuing effect of the atrocities
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Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer
Gitta Sereny came to know Albert Speer during the last years of his life as no other biographer has known a Nazi leader. She talks with Stephen Daldry about this extraordinary experience and the book that inspired David Edgar's play.
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Katie Mitchell on The Seagull
The director of The Seagull talks to Dan Rebellato about her new production of The Seagull.
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Penelope Wilton: In Conversation
Penelope Wilton in conversation with Al Senter about her career at the National and beyond and her playing the title role of The House of Bernarda Alba in the Lyttelton in 2005.
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Katie Mitchell on Waves
Director Katie Mitchell talks to Christopher Campbell about her new production, Waves, and about the process of devising with the Company from the text of Virginia Woolf's novel, The Waves.
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Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner on The History Boys
Alan Bennett talks about The History Boys, with Nicholas Hytner.
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