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Makeup Artists Tips and Tricks for the Theatre

"The eyes are the most important thing" - the transformation that theatre makeup makes

• 4 mins

Making Radio Plays

David Hitchison on using techniques such as recording sound and creating sets

• 4 mins

Sound Design in the Theatre

For plays such as The Woman in Black sound helps the audience create a mental picture

• 3 mins

Theatre School

The transition from drama school to acting professionally and a love for theatre over TV

• 3 mins

Technical Presentation for Radio Drama

Graham Harper talks about techniques used in radio plays such as background sound

• 8 mins

Jez Butterworth's Mojo

"I didn't want them to be at all cartoony or any of the violence in it to become cartoony"

• 4 mins

Actor Henry Irving

Victorian stage actor, with an unusual walk, oversaw the Lyceum Theatre

• 3 mins

Stoke on Trent Theatre

"I come to everything because I love the theatre" Theatre fan on theatre in Stoke on Trent

• 4 mins

Hey Joe! at the Edinburgh Festival

The Leicestershire Youth Arts performance inspired by the music of Jimi Hendrix

• 4 mins

Danny Hoch

Interview with Danny Hoch a New York actor performing in a one man show called Some People

• 4 mins

What's Coming Up on Play of the Week

Gordon House discusses School for Wives and Death and the Maiden

• 4 mins

Shakespeare's Richard III

David Troughton's RSC performance of Richard III who plays a "real Richard"

• 4 mins

The Rocky Horror Show

Nicholas Parsons on his role as narrator in The Rocky Horror Show

• 4 mins

Shakespeare's King Lear

Jude Kelly talks about King Lear "You have to approach a play as if it is new".

• 3 mins

Character Analysis

An unknown speaker describes a character as a "very convivial person with much bonhomie"

• 4 mins

The Globe Theatre

Michael Holden on plans for the open air Elizabethan theatre in London, UK

• 4 mins

Future Past by Andrew Verster

Andrew Verster discusses his new play and the unusual way in which he works.

• 4 mins

Audio Description

Adding a commentary to a visual performance for the benefit of people who are blind

• 3 mins

New Writing at Paines Plough

Penny Ciniewicz says "We want to promote the work of writers in all their diversity.

• 4 mins

Actor Sir Robert Stephens

Alan Strachan talks about classical British actor Sir Robert Stephens

• 4 mins

Sculptor Glynn Williams

Eminent British sculptor and professor at the Royal College of Art talks about his work

• 3 mins

Stage Design

Trapdoors in the stage, making props look old and making scenery

• 4 mins

Stage Props

Working with fake blood and stage swords and how to design them

• 3 mins

Theatre Critics

Judith Matrell discusses the work of the critic

• 3 mins

Playing Mole in The Wind in the Willows

Ian Sharrock talks about the preparation - the movement and voice coaching - he had to do

• 9 mins

Jordan by Moira Buffini

True story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby, Jordan, rather than have him taken away

• 3 mins

Poet Sir John Betjeman

Why this popular English poet was so appealing

• 3 mins

Footballers Wives by Shelley Webb

"Sport is theatre" Shelley Webb, author of Footballers' Wives, on using sport in drama

• 4 mins

The No Boys Cricket Club

Indhu Rubasingham discusses constructing a play in which women meet their younger selves

• 4 mins

Smokey Joe's Cafe

The cast talks about the show's appeal for baby boomers and the fact the show has no plot

• 4 mins