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Front Row: Steven Soderbergh's Unsane, America's Cool Modernism, Life after the Double Act, Stage Blood

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21/03/2018

Steven Soderbergh's Unsane, America's Cool Modernism, Life after the Double Act, Stage Blood

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Steven Soderbergh's Unsane, America's Cool Modernism, Life after the Double Act, Stage Blood

Steven Soderbergh on his film Unsane starring Claire Foy, shot entirely on three iphones.

Steven Soderbergh on his film Unsane starring Claire Foy, shot entirely on three iphones; Art - America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper; the art of stage blood and going solo.

Director Steven Soderbergh on his latest film, Unsane, which stars Claire Foy as a woman admitted to a mental health facility against her will. The film was shot entirely on three iphones. Is this the future of film? 

America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper, a big exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford focuses on American artists in the early 20th century - including Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper - many of whom expressed their uncertainty about the rapid modernisation and urbanisation of their country. The show's curator discusses the significance of these paintings, prints and photographs made between 1915 and 1945, many of which have not been seen in the UK before. 

How to establish yourself as a solo artist after a successful career in a double act - Stephen Armstrong considers examples from cultural history as Ant McPartlin, one half of TV presenting powerhouse Ant and Dec, is admitted to rehab, leaving Declan Donnelly considering his options.

A new RSC production of The Duchess of Malfi will involve the spilling of 3000 litres of stage blood throughout its run. To tell us how, why, and how much we should expect in the world of stage blood, we're joined by theatre critic Sam Marlowe and Giuseppe Cannas, Head of Wigs, Hair and Make-up at the National Theatre.

Presenter: Stig Abell
Producer: Julian May.

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