Audio: New Writing
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Chris Thorpe discusses his Edinburgh hit There Has Possibly Been an Incident
3rd October 2013
INTERVIEW: CHRIS THORPE Writer-performer Chris Thorpe tells Matt Trueman about his first play for multiple voices, the complex and involving There Has...
Listen nowin Actors and Performers, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing
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Playwright Wajahat Ali gives voice to American Muslims in The Domestic Crusaders
2nd October 2013
ASIAN VOICES: WAJAHAT ALI The writer, attorney, commentator and co-host of Al Jazeera America's The Stream — a daily social media news show — talk...
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Edinburgh Fringe 2013: Traverse artistic director Orla O’Loughlin talks theatre
12th August 2013
INTERVIEW: ORLA O’LOUGHLIN The Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre explains to Philip Fisher about what the Fringe means to her and the theatr...
Listen nowin Directors, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing, Regional Theatre
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Edinburgh Fringe 2013: Phoebe Waller-Bridge unpacks her Fleabag
12th August 2013
INTERVIEW: PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE The writer and actor talks to Philip Fisher about her new solo show Fleabag (Underbelly, Cowgate) and working in Edinb...
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Veteran playwright Doug Lucie enjoys a revival of his Hard Feelings
26th June 2013
INTERVIEW: DOUG LUCIE The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about the current revival of his 1982 play, Hard Feelings (Finborough Theatre), a flatshare ...
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar talks about his debut play Disgraced
21st May 2013
ASIAN VOICES: AYAD AKHTAR The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, script-writer and actor talks to Amardeep Sohi about his debut play, Disgraced, which...
Listen nowin Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, New Writing, Playwrights
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Julia Pascal and Ailin Conant: war crimes, guilt and trauma in Nineveh
30th April 2013
INTERVIEW: JULIA PASCAL and AILIN CONANT The writer and director of Nineveh (Riverside Studios) talk to Judi Herman about Theatre Témoin’s powerful...
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Ben Power: going behind the scenes at the National’s Shed
21st April 2013
INTERVIEW: BEN POWER The National Theatre Associate Director tells Matt Trueman how the Shed - the NT's temporary studio theatre filling in for the Co...
Listen nowin New Writing, Producers, Theatre Buildings, Theatre People
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Ian Talbot directs Imogen Stubbs and Amanda Daniels in new two-hander
16th April 2013
INTERVIEW: IAN TALBOT The director talks to Aleks Sierz about his production of Dermot Canavan’s two-hander Third Finger, Left Hand (Trafalgar Studi...
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