Artsweek

Title

Artsweek

Genre

Interview; Speech; Music; Drama

TX Date

29 Jan 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:52:28

Description

Sue Jameson presents an edition of Artsweek. Includes speech by the Arts Minister (not identified) at the Society of West End Theatre awards and interviews with actors Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench and Denis Lawson on their awards. At the Evening Standard awards playwright Athol Fugard on his play Master Harold and the Boys. In the studio, flautist Catherine Saunders and twin sister clarinettist Helen Saunders, talk about forming a quintet and play Palm Tree Song. Also interviews with actor Roger Rees on playing Hamlet; choreographer Stuart Hopps on his new ballet based on Agatha Christie thrillers; Luke Rittner, Arts Council General Secretary on Arts Council funding; actor Jonathan Darvill, on appearing in a new play by Jonathan Caldicot(?) called Please Say You Would (he reads an excerpt). The show is played out by Marilyn Monroe singing from the musical Blood Brothers.

Contributors

Sue Jameson; Judi Dench; Marilyn Monroe; Derek Jacobi; Luke Rittner; Denis Lawson; Athol Fugard; Catherine Saunders; Helen Saunders; Roger Rees; Stuart Hopps; Jonathan Darvill

Keywords

Authors; Actors; Theatre; Awards; National Theatre; Musicians; Opera; Local government; Government; South Africa; Apartheid; GLC; Television; Playwrights; Drama; Public finance; Artists; Films; Cinema; Arts; Cultural finance; Novelists; Derek Jacobi; Tourism; Dance; Dancers; Spouses; Arts Council; Ballet; Classical music; Agatha Christie; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; RSC; Michael Williams; Arts policy; Hamlet; Mr Cinders; Society of West End Theatre; Cyrano de Bergerac; Master Harold and the Boys; Wind instruments; Andre Tchaikovsky; Herb of Death; Please Say You Will; No Sex Please; Jonathan Darvill

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