24 February 2006
Friday 24 February 2006 21:45-22:15 (Radio 3)
Nigel Floyd and Stephanie Smith-Browne discuss Manderlay, the latest film from provocateur Lars von Trier and - sympathy for the torturer? Dramatist Mark Ravenhill on new work The Cut.
Programme Details
On Night Waves tonight Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to Mark Ravenhill about his ambiguous vision of oppression in new play The Cut, which stars Ian McKellen as a tortured torturer desperate to renounce his bloody profession – if only his victims would let him.
Also in the programme – the latest news on the Wiesenthal Centre’s controversial plans to build a new Frank Gehry-designed Museum of Tolerance on what muslims claim is an ancient burial ground in Jerusalem.
And – critic Nigel Floyd and writer Stephanie Smith-Browne on the questions and provocations of Lars von Trier’s new film Manderlay, which depicts a group of African Americans living as slaves in the deep south in the 1930s. Freed by the intervention of Grace, the film’s philanthropic heroine, the slaves soon confess their preference for the order and predictability of their former lives. Night Waves investigates the roots of the idea of willing slaves to the American civil war and beyond….
Additional information:
The Cut by Mark Ravenhill is now on at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
Citizenship by Mark Ravenhill opens at the National Theatre in London on 3 March.
Manderlay by Lars von Trier opens in London and key cities around the country next week.
