Artsweek

Title

Artsweek

Genre

Interview; Music; Drama

TX Date

11 Mar 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:52:48

Description

Carol Allen presents an edition of Artsweek. Includes interviews with: Assistant Keeper of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Lionel Lambourne (by Lawrie(?) Douglas) on the Tate Gallery’s exhibition of Pre- Raphaelite art and the artists of the movement.Theatre director Ian Bowater (by Joanna Crosse) on new Saturday morning children’s theatre. Actors Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith, and director Patrick Garland on play The Way of the World at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Director Roger Michell and actors Ann Pennington, Patricia Northcote and Michael Feast (by Beth Worth(?)) on play Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet and perform a section. Actors Tony Britton, Danny La Rue and Lionel Blair (by Joanne Cross) on a performance in tribute to the late Noel Coward. The Royal Exchange Theatre’s Artistic Director, Graham Murray on the company’s tour. Cellist Robert Cohen (by Sue Jameson) on his career- programme plays out to recording of him playing the third movement of Elgar’s cello concerto. Ella Fitzgerald singing Someone to Watch Over Me by George Gershwin also played.

Contributors

Carol Allen; Sue Jameson; Tony Britton; Joan Plowright; Danny La Rue; Lionel Blair; Lawrie(?) Douglas; Joanna Crosse; Lionel Lambourne; Ian Bowater; Maggie Smith; Patrick Garland; Ella Fitzgerald; Beth Worth(?); Roger Michell; Ann Pennington; Patricia Northcote; Graham Murray; Robert Cohen; Michael Feast

Keywords

Budgets; Theatre; Musicians; Music; Drama; Children (age group); Charities; Concert tours; Artists; Sponsorship; Arts; Cultural finance; Noel Coward; News flow; Paintings; Marlene Dietrich; Cultural exhibitions; Tate Gallery; Budgetary control; Theatre Royal; Concert performances; Cello; George Gershwin; David Mamet; Sponsors; The Way of the World; William Congreve; Pre-Raphaelites; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; William Holman Hunt; John Everett Millais; James Collinson; Walter Howell Deverell; William Michael Rossetti; Frederic George Stephens; Christ in the House of his Parents; Chichester Festival Theatre; Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Royal Exchange Theatre; Robert Cohen

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