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Polymath playwright Philip Ridley discusses his work

17 February 2012

in 20th-century Drama, New Writing, Playwrights

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INTERVIEW: PHILIP RIDLEY The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about the first London revival of his 1991 classic, The Pitchfork Disney (currently at the Arcola) and about his new play, Shivered (about to open at the Southwark Playhouse).

Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens rewrites Jarry’s King Ubu

7 February 2012

in 19th-century Drama, New Writing, Playwrights, Political theatre

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INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS The award-winning playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his new play, The Trial of Ubu, which is currently at the Hampstead Theatre in a production directed by Katie Mitchell and which features a puppet version of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (1896).

Playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan explores love and death

18 January 2012

in New Writing, Physical and Visual theatre, Playwrights

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INTERVIEW: ABI MORGAN The playwright and writer of the film The Iron Lady talks to Aleks Sierz about Lovesong, her latest collaboration with Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett of Frantic Assembly, currently at the Lyric Hammersmith as part of a nationwide tour.

Award-winning playwright Joe Penhall discusses Haunted Child

13 January 2012

in New Writing, Playwrights

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INTERVIEW: JOE PENHALL The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest Royal Court play, Haunted Child, which is about a man who suddenly walks out on his wife and child and then returns as a cult member, and about his upcoming play, Birthday, which will be at the same venue in June.

Co-authors of the powerful new play Fog speak out

11 January 2012

in London Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights

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INTERVIEW: TASH FAIRBANKS and TOBY WHARTON The co-authors of Fog, which is currently playing at the Finborough Theatre, tell Aleks Sierz about their unique cross-generational collaboration, which produced a powerful and disturbing drama, in which Wharton also plays the lead.

Playwright Lucinda Coxon on Herding Cats

12 December 2011

in New Writing, Playwrights

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INTERVIEW: LUCINDA COXON The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her disturbing new play, Herding Cats, which has transferred to the Hampstead Theatre from the Ustinov in Bath, where it opened last year, and about how the digital technologies and the looming age of austerity impact on our sense of ourselves.

Nicholas Wright on Caroline Blackwood and Wallis Simpson

8 November 2011

in New Writing, Playwrights

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INTERVIEW: NICHOLAS WRIGHT The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest work, The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre), which is based on the book of the same name by Caroline Blackwood, and tells the fascinating story of the last years of Wallis Simpson, widow of Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1936.

Playwright April De Angelis on sex, sense and feminist comedy

2 November 2011

in Comedy, Feminism, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: APRIL DE ANGELIS The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about her new play, Jumpy (Royal Court), which is a hilarious comedy about the relationship between mothers and daughters in the new digital age.

Interview: Edward Bond talks about Saved

22 October 2011

in 1960s Drama, Directors, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: EDWARD BOND and SEAN HOLMES The playwright joins the artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith to discuss the latter’s revival of his landmark 1965 play, Saved, which features the stoning to death of a baby in a pram by a group of London youths. Extracts from a conversation with Dominic Cavendish for a Daily Telegraph article to coincide with this production, the first London showing for the play in 27 years.

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