Alan Ayckbourn and Staging

Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing. 

Playwright Helen Blakeman sees setting as integral to a play’s success and highlights the supporting importance of factors such as structure and voice. 

Playwriting master Alan Ayckbourn reveals how he develops and connects ideas for his plays, and the meticulous process of structuring and ‘building’ a script. 

Alan Ayckbourn talks to Angus MacKechnie about his career, focusing on his work at the National Theatre whilst Peter Hall was Artistic Director and his recently revived play A Small Family Business. 

In conversation with Kirsty Lang, Sir Alan Ayckbourn discusses his long and prolific career that has seen him, at the age of 75, premiere his 78th play - Roundelay.Sir Alan is one of this country's most celebrated playwrights. His ability to write and stage his tales of British m ... Show More

The Tony-nominated director of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Rocky, Beetlejuice and Moulin Rouge (among others) reflects on his career in theater. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Alan likes to tell everyone Ginger Spice saw his Hamlet, so now's the time for the full story.Alan Cumming's Shelves is all about Alan Cumming and his shelves. There's lots of things on these shelves, oddities and artefacts from across Alan's life, and so each week he takes one o ... Show More

Techniques to engage an audience 

Extracts Alan Watts - Clips and Discussions of Lectures, Talks and Q&A's 

Alan is a musician and a neuroscientist. In this story Alan takes us on a journey of what music does to our brains and memories and just how important it is when it comes to remembering our lives.Written and performed by Alan Harvey. Produced by Andy Gaffney. 

In this episode, I present Jacques Lacan's notion of the Mirror Stage. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy