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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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