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Anton Chekhov, A Life, Part 2 with Professor Donald Rayfield

This is Part 2 of our discussion with Professor Donald Rayfield. Professor Rayfield takes us from the mid 1890s until his untimely death in 1904. We ask him end the show with some questions on Anton Chekhov. Mr Rayfield is the foremost biographer of Chekhov and we were honoured to explore his extraordinary biography with him. Please buy his book wherever you can to learn more about one of the great dramatists in human history. ⁠https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anton-Chekhov-Life-Rayfield/dp/0810117959⁠ Please support our work wherever you can by liking, subscribing and following. At our next event we bring you a rare performance of the Calvary, Purgatory and The Resurrection by W.B. Yeats with a response from acclaimed Yeats biographer, R.F. Foster We hope to see you there. ⁠https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/calvary-purgatory-the-resurrection-by-w-b-yeats-tickets-1252988615679?aff=oddtdtcreator

Anton Chekhov, A Life, Part 1 with Professor Donald Rayfield

In this episode Professor Donald Rayfield guides us through the life and times of Anton Chekhov. In Part 1 he takes us up to the 1890s just before Chekhov writes The Seagull. Mr Rayfield is the foremost biographer of Chekhov and we were honoured to explore his extraordinary biography with him. Please buy his book wherever you can to learn more about one of the great dramatists in human history. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anton-Chekhov-Life-Rayfield/dp/0810117959 Please support our work wherever you can by liking, subscribing and following. At our next event we bring you a rare performance of the Calvary, Purgatory and The Resurrection by W.B. Yeats with a response from acclaimed Yeats biographer, R.F. Foster We hope to see you there. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/calvary-purgatory-the-resurrection-by-w-b-yeats-tickets-1252988615679?aff=oddtdtcreator

Episode 8 - The Base Creates - Bonus Episode - The Life of Goethe by Maximilian Stecher.

A brief summary of the life of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Maximilian Stecher.

The Base Creates - Episode 7 - What We May Also Do

Written in response to Anna Sebastian’s paintings, Oliver Bennett's play ‘What We May Also Do’ was performed in the gallery Verdurin in Hoxton in 2024. An older woman, Gloria, attempts to gain admittance to ‘The City’ – a place of supposed sexual liberation and social climbing, but which breeds a life destroying ennui. An exploration into our contemporary attitudes to sex and repression. Written by Oliver Bennett Directed by Oliver Bennett Produced by Pierre d'Alcancaisez Sound recording: Cameron Lee and Aimee Armstrong https://verdur.in/event/what-we-may-also-do-by-oliver-bennett/ Cast Richard - Oliver Bennett Gloria - Kristin Milward

The Base Creates - Episode 6 - Howard Barker - Inconsistency is the first law of reality.

Howard Barker is a playwright, poet, painter, director, designer and essayist. He is, in many people's opinion, our greatest living playwright. His work is extremely difficult to categorise. He has coined the term Theatre of Catastrophe and has argued for the reintroduction of the tragic mode. His style is unique - poetic, tragic, speculative, full of wild imagination, contradictions, anachronisms, dangerous ideas, ruptures in character, time and space, and in all of this the position and opinion of the playwright, what we are 'supposed to think', is totally uncertain. Howard takes us through his work, his thoughts on writing and the history of philosophy. He helps us understand his writing process and his commitment to the foundation of contradiction and uncertainty in artistic work. Please follow, like, share and subscribe. https://www.instagram.com/thebasecreates/ https://x.com/thebasecreates

A reading of 'East' by Steven Berkoff

A reading of East by Steven Berkoff. Written in 1975 Mike - Morgan Watkins Les - Oliver Bennett Sylv - Charlotte Spencer Mum - Helen Bang Dad - Alec Newman

The Base Creates - Episode 5 - Steven Berkoff - The Last Rebel Alive

We talk to Steven Berkoff about his life and work. Steven Berkoff was born on the 3rd of August 1937. He is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director. He is a towering figure in the dramatic world. Steven takes us through his earliest memories and tells us what he would do to pull the dramatic arts out of a 'quagmire of nothingness'. www.thebasecreates.co.uk https://x.com/thebasecreates patreon.com/TheBaseCreates https://www.instagram.com/thebasecreates/

The Base Creates - Episode 4 - Sebastian Milbank - The Faustian Man.

We sit down with Sebastian Milbank to discuss his thoughts about Goethe's Faust Part 1. Sebastian is a writer and Executive Editor of the magazine The Critic. Sebastian gave a response to our staged reading of Faust Part 1 in March in St Bartholomew the Great's church in Smithfield in London. We talk about why Goethe was so drawn to this myth and what the 'Faustian Man' might symbolise in the changing and developing epochs of our world. https://thecritic.co.uk/author/sebastian-milbank/ https://x.com/JSMilbank

The Base Creates - Episode 3 - Dominic Frisby - Who pays for Theatre?

We talk to Dominic Frisby about the financial subsidy system in the Theatrical world and the dramatic world at large. We talk about how art is paid for and what other systems might be possible. Dominic Frisby is writer and a performer. He has written numerous books about economic philosophy and has an incredibly popular Substack. He has vast experience in comedy and has become some what of a viral sensation over the last few years with his comedy videos on X and Youtube. https://substack.com/@dominicfrisby https://x.com/DominicFrisby https://www.dominicfrisby.com https://www.youtube.com/@DominicFrisby

The Base Creates - Episode 2 - Esmé Partridge - Who is Prometheus?

We talk to Esmé about Prometheus. We discuss Aeschylus's play Prometheus Bound, what the Promethean myth might mean and how Plato might think about the dramatic form. Esmé Lily Katherine Partridge is a writer and consultant working at the intersection of religion, philosophy and politics. She holds a First Class BA in the Study of Religions from SOAS, University of London, and has just finished an MPhil in the Philosophy of Religion at Clare College, University of Cambridge. Esmé’s research interests include Platonism, Renaissance thought, and perennial philosophy. She is currently writing her dissertation on the 16th Century French jurist Jean Bodin’s philosophy of religious pluralism, with a focus on his Colloquium Heptaplomeres. She is particularly interested in the application of his ideas to modern society, having recently authored a ⁠paper⁠on the interfaith ethos of King Charles III. Esmé’s academic work has also appeared in the Temenos Academy Review and the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society. Outside of academia, she is also a freelance writer who has contributed to The Critic, The European Conservative, First Things, Renovatio, the Royal Society of Arts, Theos Think Tank and UnHerd among other publications. https://www.esmelkpartridge.com https://twitter.com/EsmeLKPartridge

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