Audio: New Writing
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Gary Owen picks apart Violence and Son
23rd July 2015
INTERVIEW: GARY OWEN Welsh playwright Gary Owen discusses his play Violence and Son with Matt Trueman. The play follows Rick, known locally as Violenc...
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Tim Crouch revisits An Oak Tree
14th July 2015
INTERVIEW: TIM CROUCH As his seminal piece for two performers An Oak Tree is revived at the National Theatre to mark its tenth anniversary, the playwr...
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Director Polly Teale on ‘Mermaid’, a new spin on an old fairy-tale
13th May 2015
INTERVIEW: POLLY TEALE. The director talks to Heather Neill about ‘Mermaid’, her adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Lit...
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Michael Wynne on his NHS verbatim play Who Cares
7th May 2015
INTERVIEW: MICHAEL WYNNE With the National Health Service among the most hotly-contested topics of the 2015 General Election, playwright Michael Wynne...
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Richard Twyman on Palestinian playwright Dalia Taha’s Fireworks
12th March 2015
INTERVIEW: RICHARD TWYMAN The Royal Court’s International Associate Richard Twyman tells Matt Trueman about his production of Fireworks by the Pales...
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Director Jeremy Herrin dives deep down into The Nether
5th March 2015
INTERVIEW: JEREMY HERRIN Headlong’s artistic director Jeremy Herrin tells Matt Trueman about Jennifer Haley’s sci-fi detective thriller The Nether...
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RSC Special: the writer and director of Oppenheimer both discuss the play
19th February 2015
WRITER AND DIRECTOR'S TALK: TOM MORTON-SMITH AND ANGUS JACKSON The writer and the director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Oppenheimer in convers...
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Tom Morton-Smith discusses his RSC bio-play Oppenheimer
17th February 2015
INTERVIEW: TOM MORTON-SMITH The playwright tells Matt Trueman about Oppenheimer, his new bio-play of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man behind the Manhat...
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Thusitha Jayasundera, actress in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, speaks
3rd February 2015
ASIAN VOICES: THUSITHA JAYASUNDRA The Sri Lankan actress, based in the UK, talks to Suman Bhuchar about appearing as the crippled Fatima, a pivotal ro...
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