Audio: New Writing
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Jim and James Cartwright talk about Raz and the youth of today
8th April 2016
INTERVIEW: JIM CARTWRIGHT AND JAMES CARTWRIGHT. The playwright and his actor son James talk to Heather Neill about the former's acclaimed monologue a...
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Eclipse’s Dawn Walton plots a Revolution Mix
29th March 2016
INTERVIEW: DAWN WALTON The artistic director of Eclipse Theatre Company Dawn Walton tells Matt Trueman about the company's attempt to bolster the stat...
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‘We’ve been Zellered’… interview with director Laurence Boswell
21st February 2016
INTERVIEW: LAURENCE BOSWELL. The director, who runs the internationalist programme at the Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio in Bath, which currentl...
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