My arts list: Charlotte Gwimmer

Charlotte Gwimmer. Picture: Johan PerssonCharlotte Gwimmer. Picture: Johan Persson
Charlotte Gwimmer. Picture: Johan Persson
Charlotte Gwimmer is associate director of Sheffield Theatres and her latest production is Waiting for Godot.

I’ve been listening to: Music helps me to unwind so recently it has been country and western, cheesy pop, some soul, and Gram Parsons singing Grievous Angel, over and over again.

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On TV, I’ve been watching: I dip into it when time allows, stuff like Masterchef, which does not require any concentration at all. For the “serious” side, I do like watching Channel 4 News, because I have to know what is going on around me. I enjoyed The Bridge at Christmas, and I loved the first series of True Detective.

The film I last saw was: The Song of the Sea, which I saw with my son Danny, who is now four years old, a lovely story, beautifully told. It’s about a boy who goes on an odyssey to find out who his mother is, and it was incredibly moving. I turned around to Danny at the end of it, and he was in floods of tears – as, indeed, was I.

The live performance I’d recommend is: My colleague Daniel Evans’ brilliant staging of Showboat. It was the most joyous production, and a hugely important piece of musical theatre. Breathtaking.

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My next box set will be: I really do have to catch up with Game of Thrones, purely because just about every important, talented, British actor is in it. I need to see what they are up to!

Waiting for Godot, Crucible Theatre, to February 27. 0114 249 6000, sheffieldtheatres.co.uk