Shakespeare
The Expats - Angus Vail
This week we're speaking to Angus Vail who's living in New York - and on a mission to create a mobile Shakespeare theatre out of shipping containers. Audio
Jeffrey and Gregory Qaiyum: The Q Brothers
Writers and performers from Chicago's Q Brothers theatre company preview the Auckland Festival season of Othello: The Remix. Audio
Q Brothers on adapting Shakespeare for a hip hop generation
GQ and JQ make up Chicago's Q Brothers, whose award-winning hip hop adaptations of Shakespeare have toured the globe. They also run workshops for kids, in which participants work with an existing… Audio
Brett Bailey: Macbeth in the Congo
Director of South African performance company Third World Bunfight, whose latest production is a radical take on Verdi's opera Macbeth, set in modern-day Congo, and playing at the Auckland Arts… Audio
Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine
Shakespearean expert Dr Lori Leigh talks about her investigations into notable female roles in Shakespeare's later plays. Audio
Michael Hurst and Cathy Walker
Auckland Summer Shakespeare Director and actor working on Auckland Summer Shakespeare's season of A Midsummer Night's Dream. [topic] arts [location] Auckland Audio
Dr Lori Leigh
Victoria University Shakespeare scholar and dramaturg for Bright Orange Walls' season of Twelfth Night. Audio
Encore Act Fourteen - Keeping It Real
Including NZ Actors Company, “Way of Life”, calls for a NZ National Theatre, “Verbatim”, theatre as therapy, NZ plays seen as box office poison, Centrepoint Theatre, amateur theatre movement… Audio
Sonnet No 142: Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate...
Read by Jennifer Ward-Lealand Music details: Dowland: What If A Day (Glossa GCD 920 109). Audio
Sonnet No 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes...
Read by Michael Neill. Music details: John Johnson: Passing measures Pavan (Naxos 8.550776). Audio
Sonnet No 140: Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press...
Read Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Glossa GCD 920 109). Audio
Sonnet No 139: O, call not me to justify the wrong...
Read by Michael Hurst Music details: Dowland: Pavan (P16) (Naxos 8.557862). Audio
Sonnet No 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth...
Read by Elrich Hooper. Music details: John Johnson: Delight Galliard (Virgin VC 7 91216). Audio
Jacques from 'As You Like It' by Phil Grieve
Jacques' monologue from Act 2, Scene 7 of 'As You Like It'. Performed by Phil Grieve. Audio
Sonnet No 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes...
Read by Linda Cartwright . Music details: Dowland: Lachrimae (Glossa GCD 920 109). Audio
Sonnet No 136: If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near...
Read by Charles Pierard. Music details: Tobias Hume: A Souldiers Resolution (AliaVox AV 9837). Audio
Sonnet No 135: Whoever hath thy wish, thou hast thy Will...
Read by Stuart Devenie Music details: Dowland: Can She Excuse (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine
Read by Raymond Hawthorne. Music details: Dowland: Farewell "In Nomine" (Fantasy No 4) (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
Read George Henare. Music details: Dowland: Fortune (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio