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Interviews

  • Brian Cox as King Lear

    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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  • Stephen Daldry

    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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  • Oliver Ford Davies

    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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  • Katie Mitchell

    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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  • J T Rogers

    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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  • Joan Didion photo by Brigitte Lacombe

    The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion

    The distinguished American writer reflects on her acclaimed work as the adaptation of her memoir arrives in the Lyttelton. Chaired by Sue MacGregor.

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  • Anne-Marie Duff in rehearsal for Saint Joan

    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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  • Paterson Joseph in rehearsal for Saint Joan

    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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  • Oliver Cotton

    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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  • Angels in America poster

    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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  • Peter Hall

    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

    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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  • Mary Blewitt Platform

    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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  • Albert Speer during the Nuremburg trials

    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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  • The Segull (2006)

    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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  • Sam Mendes rehearsing The Sea

    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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  • Penelope Wilton

    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

    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

    Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner on The History Boys

    Alan Bennett talks about The History Boys, with Nicholas Hytner.

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