Artsweek

Title

Artsweek

Genre

Interview; Music; Talk show

TX Date

15 Jan 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:54:46

Description

Sue Jameson presents Artsweek. She talks to choreographer Arlene Phillips, writer Andrew Lloyd Webber and director Trevor Nunn about their new production, Starlight Express. Singer Lonnie Donegan talks about taking over from Denis Lawson in Mr Cinders with a rendition of Spread a Little Happiness by Lawson. The Director of Productions of Opera 80, Stewart Trotter, talks about his interpretation of Mozart’s Cosi Van Tutte. With the Thought Crimes event at the Barbican, writer William Boyd talks about George Orwell and censorship. Author Gregor von Rezzori discusses his book, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, with Mark Smith. The programme concludes with a rendition of One Pair of Hands from the play Bashville, by Benny Green and Denis King.

Contributors

Andrew Lloyd Webber; Sue Jameson; Lonnie Donegan; Mark Smith; Trevor Nunn; Arlene Phillips; Denis Lawson; Stewart Trotter; William Boyd; Gregor von Rezzori

Keywords

Theatre; Drama; Musical theatre; Arts; George Orwell; Benny Green; Mozart; Starlight Express; Mr Cinders; Spread a Little Happiness; Opera 80; Cosi Van Tutte; Memoirs of an Anti-Semite; One Pair of Hands; Bashville; Denis King

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