Spotlight Episodes Episode guide
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Julian Garner
Julian Garner discusses his play The Flight into Egypt
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Jordan by Moira Buffini
True story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby, Jordan, rather than have him taken away
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John Matthew
"It is a farce about a serious subject" John Matthew's play set in Kerala in South India
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JM Barrie
Review of JM Barrie, the Scottish dramatist, and his most famous work Peter Pan
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Jez Butterworth's Mojo
"I didn't want them to be at all cartoony or any of the violence in it to become cartoony"
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Jane Eyre
Polly Teale's adaptation of Charlotte Bront毛's classic novel Jane Eyre
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Jane Austen
Her family and private life, in particular her relationship with her sister Cassandra
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Interpreting Schumann Cello as a Dance
Choreographing Schumann's music
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Hugh Jackman in Oklahoma!
"There's a real tension between men and women" Hugh Jackman on being Curly the cowboy
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House of Spirits
Working with Isabel Allende to make a play out of her novel, House of Spirits
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Hey Joe! at the Edinburgh Festival
The Leicestershire Youth Arts performance inspired by the music of Jimi Hendrix
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Guys and Dolls
"Musicals have this ability to intensify the experience of theatre"
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Grace Note
Playwright Samuel Adamson gives some background on his play Grace Note
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The stage-play based on the novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
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Generations
Brian Wright on his play Generations and his reflections on war
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Future Past by Andrew Verster
Andrew Verster discusses his new play and the unusual way in which he works.
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Frederick Ashton
Discussion of the the English ballet choreographer Frederick Ashton
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Discussion about Frank Lloyd Wright, the iconic organic architect
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Footballers Wives by Shelley Webb
"Sport is theatre" Shelley Webb, author of Footballers' Wives, on using sport in drama
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Flight
Ron Hutchinson on Mikhail Bulgakov's play
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Faust
A discussion of the play of Faust by Goethe and today's notions of sin and evil
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Farce Around the World
"You don't sit down in farce" - Welsh comic actor Victor Spinetti talks about farce
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Eyam - a Musical
An unlikely subject for a musical - the bubonic plague
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Eurydice
Jean Anouilh's version of the story of Eurydice
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European Plays
Travelling to Europe to find the next play that spells success for a UK audience
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Duane Hanson
Realistic sculptor Duane Hanson's exhibition
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Down Among the Mini-Beasts
Bryony Lavery on her character Millie who shrinks to the size of an ant
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Doctor Dolittle
The West End show featuring a hundred Jim Henson puppets
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Directing Opera
Phyllida Lloyd on the moving from directing plays to directing opera
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Death Catches the Hunter
The play's title means we are sometimes defeated by what we do best
