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What a way to start an art show under pressure it's Queen David Bowie of course and we are there under pressure because it's been very exciting because and he lived this evening Julius Caesar went out in 622 cinemas across the U.K. And I went along and only this show and he stopped at about 10 past 9 or something like that so I leapt in a cab and I'm back here in the studio can talk that was that was quite pressured but it was very exciting and I wonder if you were there tonight if you were do you text 88291 and let us know what you think what you think because we're going to be comparing the cinema our experience tonight with the real thing with student GA Heneage so more of that in a minute so it's very exciting I have to say thank you to Nigel because after drive time after Simon mayor's drive time where they cooked a bit of dark he's left he's left me a little pastoral on the desk Nigel is lovely but could I have a bit more he only leaves ever a little very sort of amused spoonful Niger I want to VAT pettish by 10 o'clock but anyway thank you very much for that So anyway so we have Georgia on in a minute he's a student who went to see the N.T. Live With me tonight and we're going to be chatting about that in a minute we have set designer Tom Piper who's here to talk about his latest project Chekhov's play the cherry orchard which he's designed in the round He's currently on in the Bristol Old Vic then going up to the Royal Exchange there to in Manchester text 8 a 2 night one if you've seen our goal of view on that what you know is on the show this exciting we peek inside the master class of our greatest living painter Maggie handling and we meet life model Roy Butler and straight off stage this week I'm delighted to say we've got the fabulous me. Littman on she's rushing over to wagon house after her performance finishes tonight she's playing Sue and damage in the best man at the Playhouse Theatre so frankly there's a lot to 15 say while we just sort of organize drinks snacks get everyone sorted his bit kind. Oh did kindly stop me from falling out tonight you may be one of the millions of people who took part in the N.T. Live global event of the broadcasting of Julius Caesar which was streamed to 622 cinema as well as the place frankly so you might be one of those people who saw it or you might be on your way back in the car having seen it anyway I went to see as you know just this evening but I also went to see it in the theater last week at the bridge there too which is a new theater which is just extraordinary at London Bridge here in London because I wanted to see what it felt like to watch one of these shows in the theater live with all the United site meant around that the build up to it going with the gas paying for the tickets you know is a bit of a thing let's face it and then I want to see what it was like seeing the same production in the cinema you know just down the road. Bowl of popcorn whatever and when I was at the Bridge last week I went with a mission I wanted to find someone I could coerce I could persuade to. Watch it with me again tonight I met a student there who invited with me tonight to see the N.T. Live version so I had a hot date with Georgia. Board never met before and I met at the bridge and she was really up for it to do a comparison and you're a student of English aren't you yeah yeah so we thought you'd be very good for being able to sort of because I and also as a student you you don't get to see a lot of live good preacher unless it's kind of a present from my mom but she still does I can't use your 4 to go to the theatre so so you might go to the cinema. That's it we thought you know the question everyone asks is come a pull it off can you see a production specially Julius Caesar I think E.G. Georgia because this particular production of George Julius Caesar is in the round many of the audience members are standing there part of it they form sort of part of the mob part of Caesar's rally part of the gang it's pumped up it's very exciting and you wonder how they can get cameras in and do that just the thing for the said Mark so do you think they pulled it off yeah I was I was quite surprised at how much I enjoyed the 2nd time around actually I was I thought watching again especially in a cinema wouldn't be as exciting or interesting but I actually really enjoyed I think it's quite a different experience because you got kind of close up shots of the actors you see the audiences and faces her standing around them so it's it's quite a difference variance I really enjoyed and it was a kind of I followed the story a bit closer more closely in a way and I was quite emotionally invested in the characters because you're getting close up close shops and it's film. In a very kind of filmy way it's quite different from seeing it from your see in a theater I think yeah because when you're in the theater you see everything is a big wide shot it's been described as if you're not standing so I had a c. C not. Up close so I kind of the details that you got from the filming I think yeah I mean it is a wonderful production Ben Wishaw is Brutus Michelle Fairley is Cassius Davy called the Caesar David Morrissey is Mark Antony and all that and the many other cast members who are just fantastic but I I agree with you George in that I felt with the theater you nothing can really be life that I did. Not as anyone who knows me knows I say I go so often. But you are let's face it you're seeing everything in a big sort of wide view and depending on your seat your catching bits you're missing other bits and I found it fascinating seeing it filmed and they filmed it beautifully never aware of any cameras at all you have to get series of angles if it is clever because they start off there's a sort of rock band on stage and it's basically it's like a trump rally isn't it yeah sees a rally but really it feels like a drum rally at the audience are pumped up and they're all wearing do this scene which again I missed in the yeah. I think the opening scene with the bomb was amazing if it because you got the atmosphere of it being like a pickle rally. But the little details like the Davis slogans and like Mark Antony who had on the back that he was Mark Antony he was paying the logic tacit kind of you miss those details if you want a place and sing them yes and when and when Caesar you see sort of sees a very vulnerable at one stage he's actually an oxygen mask Yeah I missed that completely and the best way that there's a bit with Brutus when he's signing he gets one. The audience comes to sign his but quit on levity. And I completely messed up in the sea and the fact that he had written a book has details that there is I guess the. See when it's still not close yet so it is a bit like you know having the close ups and really getting the detail and seeing the sweat and seeing the flicker of the ah yeah. Yeah the bloody scenes as it sees are even more exciting and shocking when you see themselves yes and when that when sees It was murdered fusion in the audience because well it's a clever power to do this half of the audience a standing as the mob there do that and their reactions are as if the mob and they are confused because people are going over there now moving around and having to change positions and so there's the risk that feeling their confusion and you definitely get that perspective with the cameras because that down there kind of filming it from that level rather than kind of detached like if you're seated if you're seated further away I think yeah so I think we're both sort of feeling slightly the same way happening to experiences that and I think the thing about the live theater is when I when I went to see Julius Caesar that I went with my Sam We had a real night out we walked along the river we ended up at London Bridge where this new theater the bridge is and it's. Really rather gorgeous which has something to reach along the way we had the most lovely not part of the whole package of going to the theater which is a bit of an event but that was you know expensive night out and it's. A lot of travel involved and for most people who don't live in London it's just impossible to. Particular production as a city I think going to see and live is so worth your while because it's possible in a pail actually did really love it and if I can a seen it at the theater I would have said. On the cinema screen it was just as good we've just had a lot of. The people getting in touch with us free just Levon says just home from Mt Judea Caesar Queens Film Theatre in Belfast What a fantastic production an amazing cast including local actress Michelle Farley as Cassius she was amazing was. My goodness she was really intense brilliant she was so good and that's the another Israeli thing her. About theater now of Lucy's cast is played by a woman it just seems so yeah I really liked it a lot of gender switching I think I just seem so with now dazed to see a whole cast would you. Really Get this is the whole way forward day just back from Julius Caesar view Thora brilliant modern interpretation wish I could have been in the crowd at the bridge there to my arthritic knees would not have coped as from David's. Because you've got to let the crowd you've got to Grady Harry there's a lot going for any get pushed around. Amazing Jane Harrison Gosport and Hampshire just got didn't hurt your introduction N.T. Julius Caesar production tonight was fantastic so different to any other I've seen the whole cast and audience were great seeing it through the live link gave the best view with the play making sure everyone watching didn't miss a thing well so some good thumbs up there. And generally I think the thing is that life there to is unbeatable Yeah but. N.T. Life is a beautiful i think that you might even think it just is amazing it's brilliant I've seen lots of things I've seen the hangman I've seen Streetcar Named Desire I've seen them at the theater and then I've seen the mentee live because I'm just like that. And both times they've been hard you know I've just love I can't quite decide that dinner where I stand on this yes certainly for most people not in London you know it's impossible to say these things so I have to say and to life is a brilliant way of seeing world class theatre and the something lovely about starting out your local cinema popcorn thing. Casey you know really jumper on political Yeah you know you haven't got far to go home it just works on same levels So listen thank you similar Twitter just left and same credible sync there to film close up much better than I expected that song twitch. Anyway sounds strange I highly recommend it a lot of people are saying you know I didn't think I'd feel as if. Yeah it was Georgia thank you for your vote she says is noble of you to. Stay and to just spontaneously just join in with all my shaved thing going on here tonight thank you very much indeed thank you. You won't admit you really know. How am I am. In a long ways down. The 1000000 times I passed. And then. I ask you. Again do you know lonely and. If you can. You. Go with you really. Late. But if you don't you send. ME DON'T TELL ME. But. You. Can't. Believe. You really. Did you know. And please don't put down. For centuries she's been kind to soft to answer life's most bewildering questions why do we dream is the warning to turn unfold why this time exists and if Elvis were alive what song would he call for. Knowing for music obsessives gathered together to debate many more of these puzzling Salt's is maybe now we. Don't leave the room until one of them gets control of the place and all preferably by the ever in history blood on the tracks with call in memory. Beginning she's day night from 10 on B.B.C. Radio. Oh listen to what love really I mean considering I've never I've been I need a new has a name about 10 minutes ago because I just met at the theater last week when I'm seeing Judy A C's at the actual theater and I just went up to random stranger and said you're a student can I. Enjoy it if it's trying to keep Georgia now listen. We have Tom piper in the building very excited to meet him set designer extraordinary talk about his most recent work which is Chekhov's play the cherry orchard so we're very excited and we have some texts going on just Lisa's coming through to tell you the rustle of paper Oh snuggled up in bed after a long day's life drawing waiting for an acoustic inside scoop on Maggie handling. That's nice in the meantime feel like we've been at Judy a season with you powerful politics at play that's really and Roy Marty tailless has just arrived home from watching T.V. A Caesar at an S. Cinema see I'm loving these Tex keep on coming exam marking this snapshot of around the holy K. I'm enjoying our chat about it on the way home great chat was a bit spoiled as could hear the film in the next screen but overall a good experience over that is disappointing if you've got a bit of I dunno whatever's going on next door Valerie I haven't read this excuse me if it's just talking about her chicken casserole she's making just come home from watching Judi Caesar at Hatfield Galleria fantastic performances from all the cast especially Ben Wishaw Michelle Fairley and David Morrissey apparently Valerie people are booking tickets just so they can sort of hang around very close to Ben being the audience that you know because you can't get very close to these actors I mean you're literally next door to them anyway Valerie then goes on to say being someone who likes my Shakespeare traditional usually I was wary about Martin take on his play guns not daggers except but is wonderfully produced and all such a resonance with some modern situations I agree being at the actual theatre to take some beating it's great for me in my late seventies to be able to go locally no traveling back from London at such a reasonable price here hip Valerie thank you very much did you get in touch let us know what you're doing doesn't have to be theater related it could be about. Just get in touch 88 to 91. After this. Cow thing you. Know. Nathaniel Ray cliff and the nice way on next guest I'm very thrilled that he's made it into the studio Ward winning set designer Tom Piper whose hits talk about his most recent what Chekhov's play the cherry orchard carry on at the Bristol Old Vic welcome Tom knew that she come down from Edinburgh because you're on to next production Yeah I'm doing rhinoceros I see him close you are. Even more grateful but tell us tell us about the cherry. I mean you know it's such a classic are you bringing a new twist to it I think we are it's a co-production with Royal Exchange in Manchester which is a theater in the round and it's in Bristol Old Vic which is the oldest still working theater in the country so it's a kind of real contrast in these 2 spaces so working Michael Boyd the director we decided that we would stage it in the round in Bristol because we were taking it to Manchester and in order to do that we've built basically a replica of the order Turia on the stage and thrust this stage out into the existing order Turia So that actually at the beginning of the show some people say on stage and they see the back of a red curtain the other people sitting in the know what a jury will see the red curtain from the front and then at the beginning the curtain kind of flies out in the 2 groups who sort of see each other and fundamentally the idea is that that you are in the house you're in the Russian house there is no cherry orchard to see the kind of trees become in your imagination we have a few bits of blossom for that kind of evoke it and this is a lovely moments like when run a scan the mother is sort of having to leave the house she actually sort of physically holds on to the walls of the theater and kind of goes this beautiful beautiful place and all these memories and it's going to be knocked down so kind of really brings home the poignancy of this sort of you know this lovely Aristotle House that's going to you know also kind of the inevitability of it she's fighting all the time against the inevitable kind of future that's coming she can't see it well I mean the stakes getting higher and higher for the designer it does seem to me that designers the person for the thing I mean oh it has been for ever the last because you are completely creating the experience the audience is going to have put the audience is getting to rather enjoy this very immersive experience that a designer can can bring to