Audio: Playwrights
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New Bush supremo Madani Younis — his debut season
12th April 2012
INTERVIEW: MADANI YOUNIS On the eve of the opening of his inaugural production of Lee Mattinson's Chalet Lines at the Bush Theatre, the venue's new Ar...
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David Edgar’s masterpiece, Pentecost, revived
28th March 2012
INTERVIEW: DAVID EDGAR The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his 1994 RSC play, Pentecost, a panoramic sweep through European history, culture and...
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Angus Jackson directs Edward Bond’s flinty study of the bard
10th March 2012
INTERVIEW: ANGUS JACKSON The director talks to Aleks Sierz about his sellout revival of Edward Bond's Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death (1973), which i...
Listen nowin 1970s Drama, Directors, Playwrights, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
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Volcano Theatre on their explosive A Clockwork Orange
7th March 2012
INTERVIEW: PAUL DAVIES The Artistic Director and founder member of Swansea's Volcano theatre company talks to Aleks Sierz about their latest show, an ...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Directors, Physical and Visual Theatre, Playwrights, Regional Theatre
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Theatre 503 develops the latest in speedy new writing
3rd March 2012
INTERVIEW: STEVE HARPER, PAUL ROBINSON and KAZIA COLE Theatre 503's Literary Manager, Co-Artistic Director and Literary Assistant talk to Sophie Reyno...
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Playwright David Eldridge revisits his Essex roots
1st March 2012
INTERVIEW: DAVID ELDRIDGE The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest hit, In Basildon (Royal Court), a family play which includes a battle o...
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West End Review: more revivals and new plays
18th February 2012
WEST END REVIEW: FEBRUARY 2012 Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Ma...
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Polymath playwright Philip Ridley discusses his work
17th February 2012
INTERVIEW: PHILIP RIDLEY The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about the first London revival of his 1991 classic, The Pitchfork Disney (currently at th...
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Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens rewrites Jarry’s King Ubu
7th February 2012
INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS The award-winning playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his new play, The Trial of Ubu, which is currently at the Hampstead ...
Listen nowin 19th-Century Drama, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre
