Audio: New Writing
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Kwame Kwei-Armah talks about One Night in Miami at the Donmar
15th November 2016
INTERVIEW: KWAME KWEI-ARMAH. 20-minute excerpt from an interview with Dominic Cavendish conducted for the Daily Telegraph in which the playwright and...
Listen nowin American Drama, Black Voices, New Writing, Political Theatre
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Playwright Ella Hickson discusses Oil at the Almeida
15th November 2016
INTERVIEW: ELLA HICKSON. Spanning 162 years, from 1889 to 2051, Ella Hickson’s Oil darts all over the world as it unfolds the history of the bla...
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Ian Hislop and Nick Newman talk about The Wipers Times
26th October 2016
 Perhaps best known for their work at Private Eye, long-term writing partners Ian Hislop and Nick Newman talk to Judi Herman about The Wipers Times,Â...
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Al Smith on adapting Gogol and ‘Harrogate’ at the Royal Court
18th October 2016
INTERVIEW: AL SMITH After a gap of eight years writing for television, playwright Al Smith talks Matt Trueman through his latest two plays: a radical ...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Devised Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre
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Director Matthew Xia on staging the 2015 Bruntwood Prize winner
14th September 2016
INTERVIEW: MATTHEW XIA. Also known as DJ Excalibur, now a rising director – responsible for hit revivals of Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange at...
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Edinburgh Festival 2016, critical round-up with leading Scottish reviewers
23rd August 2016
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2016: Philip Fisher joins the three leading Scottish critics, Joyce McMillan, Mark Fisher and Neil Cooper, to talk in detail about ...
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Tony Jayawardena on The Invisible Hand; terrorism and capitalism today
12th June 2016
INTERVIEW: TONY JAYAWARDENA. The actor talks to Suman Bhuchar about playing an Islamic religious leader in The Invisible Hand, a political thriller...
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Alistair McDowall strands us on Pluto in X
21st April 2016
INTERVIEW: ALISTAIR McDOWALL. Set on Pluto, where a team of British scientists are stranded out in space, cut off from mission control, Alistair McDow...
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Stuart Slade on his post-terrorist comedy BU21
20th April 2016
INTERVIEW: STUART SLADE. The emerging playwright talks to Matt Trueman about his second full-length play BU21, a piece that imagines a plane attacked ...
Listen nowin London Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre
