Audio: Playwrights
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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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TheatreVoice Archive: Alecky Blythe
9th February 2022
ARCHIVE EDITION: Alecky Blythe is one of the leading practitioners in verbatim theatre, responsible for flexing and breaking the form with works like...
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Lisa Spirling
2nd February 2022
INTERVIEW: LISA SPIRLING. Sam Marlowe met Lisa Spirling, artistic director of Theatre503, in Battersea, South London, at a time of exciting redevelop...
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TheatreVoice Archive: Mustapha Matura
9th April 2020
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: MUSTAPHA MATURA AND NICOLAS KENT. When Mustapha Matura died in October 2019, he had become one of the most important dramatists in ...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Black Voices, Directors, Irish Drama, Playwrights
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Elizabeth Newman
2nd April 2020
INTERVIEW: ELIZABETH NEWMAN. Elizabeth arrived at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 2018 after eight years at Bolton’s Octagon, five as associate di...
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Pamela Carter and Stewart Laing
21st November 2019
INTERVIEW: PAMELA CARTER AND STEWART LAING. Playwright Pamela Carter and director-designer Stewart Laing have worked together on a string of ground-br...
Listen nowin Design, Directors, Experimental Theatre, New Writing, Playwrights, Scottish Theatre
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Sarah Frankcom
14th November 2019
INTERVIEW: SARAH FRANKCOM. As she finishes her tenure at the Manchester Royal Exchange, Sarah Frankcom looks back over her decade in the artistic dire...
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