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Episode: 95. Picture Perfect Christmas Theatre - New plays inside The National Gallery and at The Globe: with Hannah Khalil, Clare Arouche and Francesca Reid
Description: This week we’re talking to Clare Arouche, Head of Hospitality and Events at The National Gallery, about an exciting festive initiative to stage a play inside the gallery called ‘Picture Perfect Christmas’. The play is inspired by one of the Gallery’s paintings, a 17th Century Dutch Old Master ‘A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle’ by Hendrick Avercamp. It’s directed by Francesca Reid of Boo Productions, who tells us how she’s re-imagined the skating scene as a delightful, immersive, upbeat show for the family.
We also talk to Writer in Residence at The Globe, Hannah...