Audio: Playwrights
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Edinburgh Fringe 2025: Critical Roundup
9th October 2025
TheatreVoice editor Tim Bano talks to Theatre Critics Arifa Akbar and Fergus Morgan to discuss the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025. This is an annual T...
Listen nowin 21st-Century Drama, Climate Crisis, Criticism, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Experimental Theatre, Festivals, International, Musicals, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre, Scottish Theatre, Student drama
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Rufus Norris
25th March 2025
INTERVIEW: RUFUS NORRIS. As he prepares to leave his role as Director and joint CEO of the National Theatre, Rufus Norris reflects on a decade in on...
Listen nowin Artistic Director, Devised Theatre, Digital Theatre, Directors, Funding, Management, National Theatre, New Writing, Pandemic, Performance, Playwrights, Streaming, Theatre Buildings, Theatre History, Theatre Management, Touring theatre
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David Byrne
13th March 2025
INTERVIEW: DAVID BYRNE. In 2024, David Byrne left the small New Diorama Theatre in London – which he’d transformed into a powerhouse of ...
Listen nowin Actors and Performers, Artistic Director, New Writing, Performance, Playwrights, Royal Court
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Caro Newling
13th March 2025
INTERVIEW: CARO NEWLING. Caro Newling is one of the most successful and influential producers in British Theatre. After meeting Sam Mendes at the RSC,...
Listen nowin 20th-Century Drama, 21st-Century Drama, Actors and Performers, Adaptation, Directors, Donmar Warehouse, Management, Musicals, Performance, Playwrights, Producers, Programming, Regional Theatre, Theatre Management
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Isobel McArthur
29th November 2023
INTERVIEW: ISOBEL MCARTHUR. Isobel McArthur is an Olivier award winning actor, director and playwright. In 2018 she created Pride and Prejudice *sort ...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Comedy, Feminism, Historical Drama, New Writing, Playwrights, Scottish Theatre
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Chris Bush
16th November 2023
INTERVIEW: CHRIS BUSH. Chris Bush is an award-winning playwright and lyricist. Her work ranges from huge community-led pieces to musicals and politica...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Musicals, New Writing, Playwrights, Theatre People
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Lolita Chakrabarti
20th April 2022
INTERVIEW: LOLITA CHAKRABARTI. At this year’s Olivier Awards, Lolita Chakrabarti’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi too...
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Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu
1st April 2022
INTERVIEW: TRISTAN FYNN-AIDUENU. Writer and director Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu grew up in a Ghanaian household in South London, and discovered drama as a ...
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Mark Ravenhill
25th March 2022
INTERVIEW: MARK RAVENHILL. Mark Ravenhill exploded on to the theatre scene in 1996 at the Royal Court with his uncompromising play about young people...
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