Audio: Playwrights
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Playwright Steve Thompson gets a laugh out of Monty Python
20th September 2011
INTERVIEW: STEVE THOMPSON The playwright chats to Aleks Sierz about his latest comedy, No Naughty Bits (Hampstead Theatre), which tells the story of t...
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Playwright Chris Hannan: new play and career overview (1/2)
13th August 2011
INTERVIEW: CHRIS HANNAN (1/2) The award-winning Scottish playwright discusses his latest play, The God of Soho (Shakespeare's Globe), which is an extr...
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Playwright Chris Hannan: new play and career overview (2/2)
13th August 2011
INTERVIEW: CHRIS HANNAN (2/2) The award-winning Scottish playwright discusses his latest play, The God of Soho (Shakespeare's Globe), which is an extr...
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Director Max Stafford-Clark revisits Caryl Churchill’s wonderful Top Girls
11th August 2011
FOCUS ON TOP GIRLS Author Kate Mosse introduces a pre-show talk, 'Directing Top Girls: Then and Now', which features director Max Stafford-Clark discu...
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Co-creator of Yes, Prime Minister Jonathan Lynn explores comedy
7th August 2011
INTERVIEW: JONATHAN LYNN The actor, director and co-writer, with Antony Jay, of the hit West End comedy show, Yes, Prime Minister (Apollo) - an update...
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Palestinian director and writer Amir Nizar Zuabi adapts Kafka
22nd July 2011
INTERVIEW: AMIR NIZAR ZUABI The director and writer, whose Haifa-based Palestinian ShiberHur theatre company is currently performing an adaptation of ...
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Playwright Penelope Skinner on The Village Bike
20th July 2011
INTERVIEW: PENELOPE SKINNER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her new Royal Court play, The Village Bike, which explores the sex lives of a co...
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Actor Danny Webb on Wesker hit revival
27th June 2011
INTERVIEW: DANNY WEBB The actor discusses Dominic Cooke's well-received revival of Arnold Wesker's seminal 1958 play, Chicken Soup with Barley (the fi...
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Lindsay Posner, director, on staging Simon Gray’s Butley
25th June 2011
INTERVIEW: LINDSAY POSNER The director talks about his current West End revival of the late Simon Gray's Butley. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.
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