Audio: New Writing
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Playwright Steve Waters on new writing
3rd June 2008
INTERVIEW: STEVE WATERS (2/2) The playwright tells Aleks Sierz about his running of the MPhil in Playwriting at Birmingham University, and discusses t...
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Playwright Steve Waters on Fast Labour
3rd June 2008
INTERVIEW: STEVE WATERS (1/2) The playwright tells Aleks Sierz about his new play, Fast Labour (Hampstead/West Yorks Playhouse), which is about Victor...
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Playwright Neil LaBute talks about Fat Pig
28th May 2008
INTERVIEW: NEIL LABUTE The top American playwright and director talks to Philip Fisher about his controversial new play, Fat Pig (Trafalgar Studios), ...
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Director James Macdonald on Sarah Kane
23rd May 2008
INTERVIEW: JAMES MACDONALD (2/2) The director talks to Aleks Sierz about Sarah Kane's posthumous 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Court) and about his recent pro...
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Roxana Silbert on the Ravenhill epic
14th May 2008
INTERVIEW: ROXANA SILBERT The artistic director of Paines Plough new writing combo talks to Philip Fisher about Mark Ravenhill's epic 16-play cycle, S...
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Director Sacha Wares on Random
20th March 2008
INTERVIEW: SACHA WARES The director talks to Aleks Sierz about her production of debbie tucker green's latest, Random (Royal Court), and about her oth...
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Playwright Leo Butler on Shakespeare and new writing
4th March 2008
INTERVIEW: LEO BUTLER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his powerful new work, I'll Be the Devil (Tricycle), an RSC-commissioned response to S...
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Controversial playwright Fiona Evans speaks
14th February 2008
INTERVIEW: FIONA EVANS The author of the controversial play, Scarborough (Royal Court), tells Philip Fisher about her background in community theatre ...
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The Arts Council fights back
5th February 2008
ARTS COUNCIL DEBATE Barbara Matthews, director of theatre strategy at Arts Council England, defends the controversial funding cuts, emphasises the goo...
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