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As the Actress said to the Critic

By: Sarah Crompton & Nancy Carroll
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  • Actress Nancy Carroll and critic Sarah Crompton offer an insider's view of theatre from different sides of the curtain. It's a frank conversation between friends that aims to reveal what really goes on behind the scenes of both their professions. There's a bit of history, and a lot of stories, some serious, some funny and all revealing some truths about what happens on stage and off.

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Episodes
  • The secrets of learning lines - plus Machinal and Love's Labour's Lost

    The secrets of learning lines - plus Machinal and Love's Labour's Lost
    May 3 2024
    Nancy and Sarah discuss terrific new productions of Love's Labour's Lost at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Machinal at the Old Vic and Nancy reveals the secrets of memorising long parts - and why the writers whose words are hard to learn aren't always the ones that you'd expect.

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    39 mins
  • Last word on the Oliviers - and two new plays about friendship

    Last word on the Oliviers - and two new plays about friendship
    Apr 20 2024
    Sarah and Nancy have been watching the Oliviers on screen - and wondering why it's so difficult for television to catch the spirit of theatre. Plus Nancy has been to see An Actor Convalescing in Devon at Hampstead Theatre and Sarah has watched The Comeuppance at the Almeida which prompts a conversation about two great American writers - Richard Nelson and Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins - and how they find ways into examining friendship, illness, death and the human condition.

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    36 mins
  • Brian Cox, Patricia Clarkson, the Brontes - and why cutting the creative arts is mad

    Brian Cox, Patricia Clarkson, the Brontes - and why cutting the creative arts is mad
    Apr 7 2024
    Sarah and Nancy talk about a new compelling new production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, starring Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson, and the new play Underdog: the other, other Bronte - both stories that lay bare the rivalries and difficulties of family life. And what is the UK government thinking about with its latest plan to cut funding for creative arts courses at universities? Plus more praise for Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers, and tributes to Adrian Schiller and Trevor Griffiths.

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    47 mins
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