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Front Row: Sonia Boyce, The Quiet Girl, Theatre Freelance Pay, Oldham Coliseum

01/02/2023

Sonia Boyce, The Quiet Girl, Theatre Freelance Pay, Oldham Coliseum

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Sonia Boyce, The Quiet Girl, Theatre Freelance Pay, Oldham Coliseum

Sonia Boyce's Venice Biennale show, The Quiet Girl, Theatre pay discussed, Oldham Coliseum

Sonia Boyce on her Venice Biennale-winning show, Director Colm Bairéad on his Oscar-nominated film The Quiet Girl, theatre freelance pay discussed, and Oldham Coliseum goes dark.

Sonia Boyce’s exhibition, Feeling Her Way, won the top prize at the Venice Biennale international art fair. As the sound, video and wallpaper installation arrives at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, Sonia tells Samira why she wanted to form her own girl band and help them to achieve imperfection through improvisation.

Director Colm Bairéad on his film The Quiet Girl – a small scale Irish-language drama, but the highest grossing Irish-language film in history, and the first to be nominated for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars, and BAFTA nominated for Best Film Not In The English Language and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Equity general secretary Paul Fleming and freelance theatre director Kate Wasserberg discuss the ongoing problem of low pay and poor conditions in the UK theatre sector.

Artistic director and chief executive of Oldham Coliseum, Chris Lawson, discusses the decision to cancel its programme of shows after losing its Arts Council England funding.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Eliane Glaser

Main Image - Sonia Boyce courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery. Photographer: Parisa Taghizadeh

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