Alan Ayckbourn and Staging

Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing. 

Playwright Helen Blakeman sees setting as integral to a play’s success and highlights the supporting importance of factors such as structure and voice. 

Alan Ayckbourn talks to Angus MacKechnie about his career, focusing on his work at the National Theatre whilst Peter Hall was Artistic Director and his recently revived play A Small Family Business. 

In conversation with Kirsty Lang, Sir Alan Ayckbourn discusses his long and prolific career that has seen him, at the age of 75, premiere his 78th play - Roundelay.Sir Alan is one of this country's most celebrated playwrights. His ability to write and stage his tales of British m ...  Show more

The Tony-nominated director of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Rocky, Beetlejuice and Moulin Rouge (among others) reflects on his career in theater. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Alan likes to tell everyone Ginger Spice saw his Hamlet, so now's the time for the full story.Alan Cumming's Shelves is all about Alan Cumming and his shelves. There's lots of things on these shelves, oddities and artefacts from across Alan's life, and so each week he takes one o ...  Show more