NT Talks

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Jonathan Kent on Young Chekhov Sep 21, 2016

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As the Chichester Festival Theatre’s trilogy of Chekhov’s Platonov, Ivanov, and The Seagull comes to the National, director Jonathan Kent discusses the productions with Genista McIntosh.

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Helen McCrory on The Deep Blue Sea Sep 16, 2016

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The actor reflects on the challenges and rewards of playing Hester Collyer in The Deep Blue Sea.

Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour: Vicky Featherstone and Lee Hall Sep 08, 2016

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The director and writer discuss this new musical, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, and its journey to the National.

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Lear and Rosalind May 31, 2016

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The timeless Shakespearean characters of Lear and Rosalind are given a voice through the different and unorthodox approach of their biographers, in two newly-published books.

Michael Pennington, who played King Lear in New York and is currently touring the UK, takes us on a journey through the play from the point of view of Lear himself, commenting on its motives and themes in Lear’s own words, in King Lear in Brooklyn.

Angela Thirlwell explores the fictitious life and the many after-lives of Shakespeare’s progressive heroine Rosalind, and her perennial influence on drama, fiction and art, using interviews with actors and directors in Rosalind: A Biography of Shakespeare’s Immortal Heroine.

Another World: Islamic State Discussion (part 3/3) May 09, 2016

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The last of a series of discussions on the issues raised by the play, Another World.

Another World: Islamic State Discussion (part 2/3) May 09, 2016

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A series of discussions on the issues raised by the play, Another World.

Shakespeare: Writer for Today Apr 27, 2016

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From the new series of the BBC's The Hollow Crown, director Dominic Cooke and writer Ben Power discuss their approach to filming Shakespeare's work for the screen.

Shakespeare: The 21st Century Apr 27, 2016

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The former Director of the National Theatre talks to Abigail Rokison-Woodall about his enormous contribution to the history of Shakespeare at the NT.

In her forthcoming new book, Shakespeare in the Theatre: Nicholas Hytner, she looks at his career through his Shakespeare productions as a whole, including those of Henry V, Much Ado about Nothing, Timon of Athens and Othello at the National.

Shakespeare and Migration: Lenny Henry Apr 26, 2016

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Lenny Henry and George Alagiah look at how migration and exile are explored in Shakespeare’s play, The Comedy or Errors, and discuss how the situations experienced by the characters might be mirrored today.

Shakespeare and Old Age: Simon Russell Beale Apr 26, 2016

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Simon Russell Beale and Simon Lovestone look at how memory and ageing are explored in Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, and discuss how the situations experienced by the characters might be mirrored today.

Part of the Shakespeare400 Partnership, coordinated by King’s College London.