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West End Review pt2: Masterclass, Absent Friends and more

18 February 2012

in Playwrights, Reviews and Roundtables

West End Review, Part 2, Feb 2012: Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) convene to assess Travelling Light by Nicholas Wright (National); The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett (Apollo); Absent Friends by Alan Ayckbourn (Harold Pinter); Master Class by Terrence McNally (Vaudeville).

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 Howard Brenton on a revival of his Bloody Poetry

31 January 2012

in Playwrights, Political theatre, Theatre People

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INTERVIEW: HOWARD BRENTON The playwright and screen writer talks to Aleks Sierz about Bloody Poetry, his 1984 play about Shelley, Byron and the loves of these Romantic poets, which is currently being revived by Tom Littler at the Jermyn Street Theatre in the West End.

Playwright Ishy Din and director Iqbal Khan get Snookered

26 January 2012

in Asian Voices, Directors, Playwrights

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ASIAN VOICES: ISHY DIN and IQBAL KHAN The playwright and director of Snookered (Oldham Coliseum Theatre/Bush Theatre) talk to Suman Bhuchar about the genesis and staging of this new play, produced by Tamasha, which examines British Muslim life today.

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.

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