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Radio Maria EnglandCULTURE TUESDAY - Stella Powell-Jones - Little Brother: A Refugee’s Odyssey.Artistic Director Stella Powell-Jones brings Little Brother: A Refugee’s Odyssey to life on Today’s Culture Tuesday.Adapted by celebrated playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, Little Brother is a powerful retelling of the true story of Ibrahima Balde from Guinea, who risks everything to find his runaway younger brother on the dangerous migrant routes toward Europe. Based on the award-winning memoir by Ibrahima Balde and Amets Arzallus Antia, the play explores the harrowing realities faced by refugees — a crisis that Pope Francis has repeatedly highlighted as a human, not political, tragedy. Through Ibrahima’s journey and his heartfelt closing...2025-05-2029 min
The Uncensored Critic PodcastNaarah on "Our Country's Good" and How Art Changes the WorldNaarah (pronounced Nay-ah-rah), is originally from Australia and has been working in the industry down under for several years across multiple platforms. Those include, musical theatre, songwriting, content creation and hosting the National Radio Show “The Musical Show” on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Co-operation).She was also Young Australian of the Year for 2024. After a few years in Australia she moved to London to attend the prestigious Royal Academy of Music. During that time she appeared in the recent Lyric Hammersmith production of “Our Country’s Good” by Timberlake Wertenbaker. A play that...2025-05-141h 51
RadiokulturaHasieran, nire lana da maitasuna … (Timberlake Wertenbaker)
Ibrahima Balderen eta Amets Arzallusen Miñan liburua izen bereko antzezlana egokitu eta muntatu du Artedrama konpaniak.
Liburua hainbat hizkuntzatan itzulia izan da, besteak beste, ingeleses,Timberlake Wertenbaker idazleak itzulitakoa. Nahiko naturala izan da Artedrama konpaniak Timberlakaren gana joatea antzerkirako egokitzeko.
Bere lana azaltzeaz gain, zer harreman duen Euskal Herria eta euskararekin azaltzen digu Timberlake-k.
Jatorria : Radiokultura
2025-03-1914 min
SoA SoundsThe SoA Advisory Clinic: Throw us a line: help save audio drama The world of audio drama is a world unlike any other. A world with untold potential and prospect, but as the BBC announce the completement abandonment of the renowned Drama on 3 slot on BBC Radio 3 we hear from a host of radio stars to understand what makes the form in general and that slot in particular so very special. This bonus special episode is brought to you in support of the campaign to Save Audio Drama in association with Equity and the WGGB. Pledge your support here: https://www.change.org/p/save-audio-drama-at-the-bbc. Featuring contributions from Linda Marshall Griffiths...2025-02-2448 min
You're BookedHolly Williams - You're BookedThis week on the podcast we're entertaining one of our favourite writers and one of our favourite people. The brilliant Holly Williams! Holly is a journalist and author who writes about books and theatre for everyone from The Observer to the New York Times and is the author of two fantastic novels, What Time is Love and The Start of Something. We traveled to Holly's wonderful Sheffield home and talked to her about the Tolstoy family dynasty, cosy planning. life lessons from Marian Keyes, generating a poetry habit and books so engrossing you miss your train connection. Find out...2024-10-2155 min
SoA SoundsAdventures in Radio with Barney Norris: Timberlake WertenbakerIn this episode, acclaimed playwright, novelist and podcast host, Barney Norris talks to Timberlake Wertenbaker about her radio adaptation of Marcel Proust’s seminal 20th century novel In Search of Lost Time. What of the context? What of the challenges? What of the importance of memory and of the madeleines? Enjoy this truly brilliant conversation between Barney and Timberlake who discuss all this and more in the latest episode from the Adventures in Radio team at the Society of Authors. Timberlake’s radio adaptation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time was directed and produced by Cel...2024-02-2637 min
Key Changes#8 PART TWO: Nick the Barista, LabrinthIn the second half of this episode, Neil speaks with Nick, an actor, comic, barista, and gamer from Jamaica. They discuss the utility of music for actors' emotional work, the supposed gayness of befriending women, visiting Wisconsin as a Black man, showing Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017) to a white family, Neil's favorite Afro-Surrealist trope, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good (1988) and humor's ability to humanize, the U.S. retaining live aliens, the intimacy of one-night stands versus that of love, the hauntology of breakups, and the mistake of begging an unloving partner to stay. They explore which song never fails...2023-10-0226 min
STAGES with Peter Eyers‘A Summer Song’ - Artistic & Theatre Director; Lindy HumeLindy Hume, AM, is one of Australia’s leading directors, acknowledged internationally for fresh interpretations of a wide variety of repertoire, and for progressive artistic leadership of a number of Australian arts organisations, including Opera Queensland (2012-2017), Sydney Festival (2010-2012) and Perth International Arts Festival (2004-2007). She was also the first Artistic Director of West Australian Opera (1992-96), Artistic Director of Victoria State Opera and then OzOpera (1996-2001). Lindy has most recently been Creative Director of the Four Winds Easter Festival, Bermagui and is currently Artistic Director of the 10 Days on the Island Festival, Tasmania 2019-2023. In 2021 Lindy Hume wa...2023-07-1555 min
Much More Muchier with Pup Duffy & Keira LaneAnna Tierney of the award winning "Three Pines"Following Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he investigates cases beneath the idyllic surface of the Quebec village, Three Pines, finding long-buried secrets and facing a few ghosts of his own.Anna Tierney is an English actress, born in Manchester to Irish and Austrian heritage and raised in Northolt, West London. She is the daughter of renowned actor Malcolm Tierney (Braveheart, Lovejoy, Star Wars, Poldark and the original House Of Cards) and Linz born visual artist, Andrea Tierney. In August 2021 Anna began filming as a series regular opposite Alfred Molina in the hotly anticipated 'Three Pines' Inspector Gamache...2022-12-0626 min
The Aside PodcastThe Aside - Translating Liz Morden (Our Country's Good)The Aside Podcasts are a free resource supported by Drama Victoria - Australia’s oldest Drama Association
In this episode of The Aside, we translate a number of words from Liz Morden's Monologue from Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Links below for the sources.
Please feel free to email asidepodcast@outlook.com to ask a question. We will try and answer on a future podcast.
Sources:
https://www.hamptonhilltheatre.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-07/Programme%20-%20Our%20Country%27s%20Good_0.pdf
https://www.mansioningles.com/recursos149.htm
https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/convict-sydney/flash-language
https://sites.google.com/site/mo...2022-08-0108 min
Theatre Royal Stratford EastThe Expendables - Burn It DownWe recently commissioned 6 writers to create short, rapid response plays about the urgent political issues of today, and out of this, our Burn It Down series was born. These 6 short plays were rehearsed and performed in a single day, and we are thrilled to share a live audio recording of those performances. These plays are available to listen to, exclusively on the Stratford East Podcast until 16 August.The Expendables by Timberlake Wertenbaker“Protect the economy and if that means some pensioners die, too bad.” Words attributed to Dominic Cummings in February 2020, denied by him.How...2022-05-1726 min
Theatre Royal Stratford EastEpisode 28 - Timberlake Wertenbaker and Anthony Lau - Burn It DownStratford East has commissioned 6 writers to create urgent, political short plays in a new series called BURN IT DOWN. We'll be interviewing the 12 writers and directors in the series. In this episode, we spoke to Timberlake Wertenbaker and Anthony Lau about their play The Expendables.
2022-04-1523 min
Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James JoycePages 178 - 185 │ Aeolus, part V │ Read by Cressida BrownPages 178 - 185 │Aeolus, part V│Read by Cressida BrownCress was awarded the National Theatre Studio’s Bulldog prinsep bursary in 2007. She directed Macbeth for Shakespeare and Company in 2017.Work she is most proud of includes :Amphibians by Steve Water, inspired by interviews she conducted with former Olympic swimmers about ‘legacy’ in the run up to the 2012 Olympic games and staged in the derelict pool that had previously been hidden under the Bridewell Theatre stage. Walking the Tightrope: the tension between art and politics by writers including Caryl Churchill, April DeAng...2022-03-0215 min
The Play PodcastOur Country's Good by Timberlake WertenbakerEpisode 035: Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker Host: Douglas Schatz Guest: Matt Beresford The Play Podcast is a podcast dedicated to exploring the greatest new and classic plays. In each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing. It is 1789 and a group of convicts in the newly-founded colony of Botany Bay in Australia are assembled to put on a production of George Farquhar’s Restoration Comedy...2021-10-141h 02
The Play Podcast035 – Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker[powerpress]
Timberlake Wertenbaker's award-winning play retells the unlikely story of a group of convicts who put on a production of George Farquhar's Restoration Comedy The Recruiting Officer in Botany Bay in 1789. It made complete sense to follow-up our episode on The Recruiting Officer with this wonderful play and to invite Director Matt Beresford back to talk us through it.
The post 035 – Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker appeared first on The Play Podcast.2021-10-141h 02
The Play Podcast035 – Our Country’s Good by Timberlake WertenbakerIt is 1789 and a group of convicts in the newly-founded colony of Botany Bay in Australia are assembled to put on a production of George Farquhar's Restoration Comedy The Recruiting Officer. The story of this unlikely theatrical enterprise is true, and is the subject of Timberlake Wertenbaker's award-winning play, Our Country's Good which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1988 almost exactly 200 years after the events it portrays. The play is a vivid portrait of the volatile community in the new settlement in New South Wales, which raises timeless questions about what makes for a country's good: the exercise...2021-10-141h 02
Theatre TheaterAugust Wilson (w/ Rafeal Clements) - Part 1The nerds are honored to have with them for this mini-series an esteemed guest, Rafeal Clements, who was present at Yale Rep during the development of mulitple Wilson plays.
RAFEAL CLEMENTS has worked as an actor, teacher, and director since 1985 - performing the works of playwrights as varied as William Shakespeare, Tony Kushner, Caryl Churchill, Lynn Nottage, Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Anton Chekov, Kia Cothron, Romulus Linney, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and Michael Henry Brown. Rafeal has performed regionally with Houston's Alley Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, Portland Stage Company, Berkshire Theater Festival, Playmakers Repertory C...2021-02-081h 22
Theatre TheaterS2 Ep5: August Wilson (w/ Rafeal Clements) - Part 1The nerds are honored to have with them for this mini-series an esteemed guest, Rafeal Clements, who was present at Yale Rep during the development of mulitple Wilson plays.
RAFEAL CLEMENTS has worked as an actor, teacher, and director since 1985 - performing the works of playwrights as varied as William Shakespeare, Tony Kushner, Caryl Churchill, Lynn Nottage, Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Anton Chekov, Kia Cothron, Romulus Linney, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and Michael Henry Brown. Rafeal has performed regionally with Houston's Alley Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, Portland Stage Company, Berkshire Theater Festival, Playmakers Repertory C...2021-02-081h 22
Page One176 - POIR 20At what might be the half-way point and more opinionated than usual, Charles Adrian talks about three books he was given by friends in Athens. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/. You can find out more about the Jacques Lecoq school in Paris on their homepage here: http://www.ecole-jacqueslecoq.com/en There is a nice introduction to Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker on the British Library website here: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-our-countrys-good 2020-09-0133 min
Get Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentOur Country's Good and The Recruiting Officer: Two BBc Radio full-cast dramatisations by George Farquar, Timberlake WertenbakerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Country's Good and The Recruiting Officer: Two BBc Radio full-cast dramatisations Author: George Farquar, Timberlake Wertenbaker Narrator: Paul Higgins, Paul Moriarty, Adam Billington, Nicholas Le Prevost, Ralph Ineson, Stuart Mcquarrie, Lisa Dillon, Adjoa Andoh, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 20, 2020 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A BBC Radio double bill of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s award-winning drama about a group of 18th-century Australian convicts and their attempts to stage a play, plus the Restoration comedy that the prisoners put on Australia, 1789: A young li...2020-08-2005 min
Get Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentOur Country's Good and The Recruiting Officer: Two BBc Radio full-cast dramatisations by George Farquar, Timberlake WertenbakerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408584to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Our Country's Good and The Recruiting Officer: Two BBc Radio full-cast dramatisations
Author: George Farquar, Timberlake Wertenbaker
Narrator: Paul Higgins, Paul Moriarty, Adam Billington, Nicholas Le Prevost, Ralph Ineson, Stuart Mcquarrie, Lisa Dillon, Adjoa Andoh, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Release date: August 20, 2020
Genres: Arts & Entertainment
Publisher's Summary:
A BBC Radio double bill of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s award-winning drama about a group of 18th-century Australian convicts and their attempts to stage a play, plus the Restoration comedy that the prisoners put on Australia, 1789: A young lieutenant at...2020-08-203h 16
Nottingham PlaycastEpisode 32 - Nikolai Foster - The Amplify PodcastOur Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown. Â These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.Nikolai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, grew up in North Yorkshire and trained at Drama Centre London and at the Crucible, Sheffield.His work has been seen in many of the UK’s leading regional theatres, touring houses and internationally. Nikolai has been dire...2020-05-071h 03
The Aside PodcastScript Tease - The Aside - Our Country's Good by Timberlake WertenbakerThe Aside Podcasts are a free resource supported by Drama Victoria - Australia’s oldest Drama Association
This is a Script Tease episode where we talk through some of the world’s greatest plays. Jump through the major plot points, give some background and of course, spoil the endings – all in less than 5 minutes. We do the hard work so you can do the easy listening.
In this episode we do Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Please feel free to email asidepodcast@outlook.com to ask a question. We will try answer on a future podcast.2020-02-2205 min
Saturday ReviewThe Souvenir, Bait, Appropriate, Mary Beth Keane, A ConfessionTwo Brit indie film productions arrive at once: Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir is a slightly autobiographical work about a struggling young film-maker's relationship with a charismatic drug addict. Also Bait; set in a fishing village in Cornwall and with an intentionally handmade aesthetic, it explores the tense relationship between locals and incomers.
Appropriate at The Donmar Warehouse is a new play from Brandon Jacobs Jenkins. A family in the American south are dealing with the estate of their recently deceased father and unearth some unpleasant truths
Mary Beth Keane's new novel - Ask Again, Yes - is set in...2019-08-3150 min
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of AgeThe Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay & The Story of the Lost Child: The Complete BBC Radio Collection by Elena FerrantePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350752to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay & The Story of the Lost Child: The Complete BBC Radio Collection
Author: Elena Ferrante
Narrator: Monica Dolan, Anastasia Hille, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Release date: March 7, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6
Genres: Coming of Age
Publisher's Summary:
From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, The Neapolitan Novels is an exploration of the friendship between Lila and Lena, two bright young girls who grew up in...2019-03-089h 27
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of AgeThe Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay & The Story of the Lost Child: The CPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay & The Story of the Lost Child: The Complete BBC Radio Collection Author: Elena Ferrante Narrator: Monica Dolan, Anastasia Hille, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 7, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, The Neapolitan Novels is an exploration of the friendship between Lila and Lena, two bright young girls who grew up...2019-03-0810 min
APT Talkbacks to GoAPT Talkbacks To Go: Our Country's GoodEnhance your appreciation of American Players Theatre's 2018 production of Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker with this enlightening conversation with director Ameenah Kaplan and actorNate Burger. Listen on your way to or from the theater to gain insight into the play and the artistic decisions that make the APT production special.
2018-07-3115 min
Royal Court Playwright's PodcastS2 Ep15: Timberlake Wertenbaker talks to Simon StephensThe plays of Timberlake Wertenbaker have been a presence in British theatre since the turn of the 1980s. Since that time she has produced work that is as defined by its sense of poetry and linguistic precision as it is by her characters’ yearning for justice or a sense of a home.2018-03-021h 10Playwright's PodcastS2 Ep15: Timberlake Wertenbaker talks to Simon StephensThe plays of Timberlake Wertenbaker have been a presence in British theatre since the turn of the 1980s. Since that time she has produced work that is as defined by its sense of poetry and linguistic precision as it is by her characters’ yearning for justice or a sense of a home.
Born in New York she was raised in the Basque fishing village of Cibure. She arrived in the fringes of London theatre when her first play, the brilliantly titled This Is No Place for Tallulah Bankhead, was produced at the King’s Head Theatre in 1978. She...2018-03-021h 10Royal Court Playwright's PodcastS2 Ep15: Timberlake Wertenbaker talks to Simon StephensThe plays of Timberlake Wertenbaker have been a presence in British theatre since the turn of the 1980s. Since that time she has produced work that is as defined by its sense of poetry and linguistic precision as it is by her characters’ yearning for justice or a sense of a home.2018-03-021h 10
Enter a New World Through Your Headphones With Free AudiobookJefferson's Garden Audiobook by Timberlake WertenbakerListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 300774
Title: Jefferson's Garden
Author: Timberlake Wertenbaker
Narrator: Darren Richardson, Ellis Greer, Emily Swallow, Gregory Harrison, Ifan Meredith, Inger Tudor, Lovensky Jean-Baptiste, Nate Corddry, Rosalind Ayres
Format: Unabridged
Length: 01:53:15
Language: English
Release date: 08-01-17
Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama
Summary:
You say you want a Revolution? The story of this country's struggle for independence is told with a fresh slant and theatrical inventiveness. As Thomas Jefferson struggles to find the right words to frame a nation, a young Quaker must weigh his desire to...2017-08-011h 53
British Theatre Guide podcastWertenbaker's Winter Hill in BoltonTimberlake Wertenbaker was commissioned by the Octagon Theatre in Bolton to write Winter Hill, named after a local landmark most famous for its TV mast. BTG editor David Chadderton spoke to Timberlake when she had spent nearly a week in rehearsals for the play in Bolton, and then a couple of weeks later to three of the cast: Cathy Tyson, Souad Faress and Janet Henfry. Winter Hill by Timberlake Wertenbaker will be at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton from 11 May to 3 June 2017. (Photo of the Winter Hill cast in rehearsal by Ray Jefferson...2017-05-0243 min
How to Listen to Audiobook in Classics, European LiteratureWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Narrator: Paterson Joseph, Stephen Campbell Moore, John Hurt, Simon Russell Beale, Roger Allam, Lesley Manville, Alun Armstrong
Format: Original Recording
Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-06-17
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Genres: Classics, Drama
Summary:
Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the cast of BBC Radio 4's epic full-cast dramatisation. Adapted for radio by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Leo Tolstoy's epic story follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. First broadcast on...2017-04-069h 38
Press Play On The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Binge-Worthy!War and Peace: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Leo TolstoyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330656to listen full audiobooks.
Title: War and Peace: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Narrator: Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Full Cast, Lesley Manville, Harriet Walter
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Release date: April 6, 2017
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Classics
Publisher's Summary:
Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the stellar cast of this landmark BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Leo Tolstoy’s epic saga. ‘Tolstoy’s imagined world is recreated on air brilliantly by the extraordinary cast’ The Spectator One of the greatest...2017-04-0610h 15Enter a New World Through Your Headphones With Free AudiobookWar and Peace: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Audiobook by Leo TolstoyListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 330656
Title: War and Peace: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Narrator: Full Cast , Harriet Walter, John Hurt, Lesley Manville, Paterson Joseph
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:15:00
Language: English
Release date: 04-06-17
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics
Summary:
Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the stellar cast of this landmark BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Leo Tolstoys epic saga.
Tolstoys imagined world is recreated on air brilliantly by the extraordinary cast The Spectator
One of the greatest novels of all time, War...2017-04-0610h 15
Private PassionsTimberlake WertenbakerTimberlake Wertenbaker is one of our leading playwrights, adapters and translators. Her parents were American, but she was brought up in Basque country in France and has spent much of her life in Greece. Not surprising, then, that her major theme is exile, displacement, flight. She's best known for her play about convicts in 18th century Australia, "Our Country's Good", which was first staged in the late 1980s and which was revived recently at the National Theatre. It has become a set text in schools, and in fact Wertenbaker's own daughter had to study it (refusing all help from...2016-07-2425 min
StageworthyAlysa PiresChoreographer Alysa Pires has created works for Ballet Jorgen, Citie Ballet (Edmonton, AB), Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, Cadence Ballet, Ryerson University, Dancestreams Youth Dance Company, Victoria Academy of Ballet, McMaster Dance Company, Helix Dance Theatre, the Parahumans, Kalos Collective, and her own company Alysa Pires Dance Projects. Her work in theatre includes choreography for ten musicals, a series of world premiere plays by Judith Thompson (CAN), Velina Hasu Houston (USA) and Timberlake Wertenbaker (UK) that toured through Greece (The Women and War Project) and the first workshop of a new commission for the Los Angeles Opera. In...2016-05-1746 minSaturday ReviewLes Liaisons Dangereuses, Star Wars, Serial Podcast, Dickensian, Penguin MonarchsDominic West and Janet McTeer star in the first major London production for 30 years of Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Star Wars is back. Unless you've been living in cave, it's been hard to avoid. But is it any good?
Last year WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio created the astoundingly successful Serial podcast and now there's a new series unravelling the peculiar story of American soldier Bowe Bergdahl
Dickensian is Tony "Eastenders" Jordan's mash-up of several Charles Dickens stories and characters. How well does this TV series capture the spirit of the originals?
Penguin publishing is putting out a series...2015-12-1941 min
Start the WeekPower and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary BeardOn Start the Week the classicist Mary Beard tells Tom Sutcliffe that Ancient Rome matters: its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty. The Magna Carta is the starting point for the playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker's latest play which draws parallels between the King's abuse of power in 1215 and the global business elite today. The film director Stephen Frears tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial sportsmen in recent history, Lance Armstrong, and of the journalist who was vilified...2015-10-1941 min
Playwrights in ConversationTimberlake Wertenbaker and Nadia Fall on Our Country's GoodDirector Nadia Fall and playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker discuss the new production of Our Country's Good.
This is a recording of a live platform event.
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/our-countrys-good
#OurCountrysGood2015-10-1226 min
Directors in ConversationTimberlake Wertenbaker and Nadia Fall on Our Country's GoodDirector Nadia Fall and playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker discuss the new production of Our Country's Good.
This is a recording of a live platform event.
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/our-countrys-good
#OurCountrysGood2015-10-1226 min
National Theatre: What's onTimberlake Wertenbaker and Nadia Fall on Our Country's GoodDirector Nadia Fall and playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker discuss the new production of Our Country's Good.
This is a recording of a live platform event.
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/our-countrys-good
#OurCountrysGood2015-10-1226 min
2014 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLiterary Festival 2014: Voices of the Great WarContributor(s): Tobias Hill, Michael Longley, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Louisa Young | One hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War, Sebastian Faulks, whose novel Birdsong has sold over 2.5 million copies, introduces four writers, and the pieces of First World War literature that mean most to them. The poet and fiction writer Tobias Hill, described by A.S. Byatt as one of the ‘most original and interesting’ novelists writing in Britain today, looks at Alain Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes. The Northern Irish poet Michael Longley, whose father was awarded the Military Cross for Gallantry during the First World War, reads from t...2014-03-011h 302014 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoLiterary Festival 2014: Voices of the Great WarContributor(s): Tobias Hill, Michael Longley, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Louisa Young | One hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War, Sebastian Faulks, whose novel Birdsong has sold over 2.5 million copies, introduces four writers, and the pieces of First World War literature that mean most to them. The poet and fiction writer Tobias Hill, described by A.S. Byatt as one of the ‘most original and interesting’ novelists writing in Britain today, looks at Alain Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes. The Northern Irish poet Michael Longley, whose father was awarded the Military Cross for Gallantry during the First World War, reads from t...2014-03-011h 30Spring 2014 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLiterary Festival 2014: Voices of the Great WarContributor(s): Tobias Hill, Michael Longley, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Louisa Young | One hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War, Sebastian Faulks, whose novel Birdsong has sold over 2.5 million copies, introduces four writers, and the pieces of First World War literature that mean most to them. The poet and fiction writer Tobias Hill, described by A.S. Byatt as one of the ‘most original and interesting’ novelists writing in Britain today, looks at Alain Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes. The Northern Irish poet Michael Longley, whose father was awarded the Military Cross for Gallantry during the First World War, reads from t...2014-03-011h 30Spring 2014 | Public lectures and events | VideoLiterary Festival 2014: Voices of the Great WarContributor(s): Tobias Hill, Michael Longley, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Louisa Young | One hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War, Sebastian Faulks, whose novel Birdsong has sold over 2.5 million copies, introduces four writers, and the pieces of First World War literature that mean most to them. The poet and fiction writer Tobias Hill, described by A.S. Byatt as one of the ‘most original and interesting’ novelists writing in Britain today, looks at Alain Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes. The Northern Irish poet Michael Longley, whose father was awarded the Military Cross for Gallantry during the First World War, reads from t...2014-03-011h 30Saturday Review14/04/2012Tom Sutcliffe and his guests, playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, novelist Kamila Shamsie, and writer and columnist David Aaronovitch review the week's cultural highlights.David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf star in Anthony Page's production of Long Day's Journey Into Night at the Apollo Theatre in London. Eugene O'Neill described it as a play of "old sorrow, written tears and blood" and the family in this heavily autobiographical work are teetering on the verge of collapse due to various addictions and historical resentments.Cabin in the Woods - written by Joss Whedon and directed by Drew Goddard...2012-04-1442 min
Midweek25/05/2011This week Libby Purves is joined by Professor Nicky Clayton, Bill Roedy, Edward Petherbridge and Steve Greenhaugh.Nicky Clayton is Professor of Comparative Cognition at Cambridge University and is an expert in bird behaviour. She is also passionate about dance and now combines these two strands as the Rambert Dance Company's first 'Scientist in Residence'. She is working with the Rambert on a new production, "Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told" and will be at this year's Hay Festival. Bill Roedy is the former Chairman and Chief Executive of MTV. In his book...2011-05-2541 min