Get Lost in Great Film

Culture and theatre featuring Erica Whyman

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Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Erica Whyman joins James King to discuss her favourite stage productions on the big screen. From Romeo and Juliet to One Man, Two Guvnors, Erica talks about how big screen theatre offers the ultimate form of escapism and how her role is to ensure that audiences are engaged and surprised by theatre, ensuring that it takes them away to new places. Erica’s big screen theatre picks: Macbeth Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet British Museum- Pompeii One Man, Two Guvnors Much ado about nothing Erica Whyman, OBE is an English Theatre Director who became the Deputy Artistic Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2013.