Audio: Playwrights
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Playwright Penelope Skinner on The Village Bike
20th July 2011
INTERVIEW: PENELOPE SKINNER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her new Royal Court play, The Village Bike, which explores the sex lives of a co...
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Actor Danny Webb on Wesker hit revival
27th June 2011
INTERVIEW: DANNY WEBB The actor discusses Dominic Cooke's well-received revival of Arnold Wesker's seminal 1958 play, Chicken Soup with Barley (the fi...
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Lindsay Posner, director, on staging Simon Gray’s Butley
25th June 2011
INTERVIEW: LINDSAY POSNER The director talks about his current West End revival of the late Simon Gray's Butley. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.
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Arnold Wesker reads two letters from Terence Rattigan
18th June 2011
WESKER EXCLUSIVE Sir Arnold Wesker reads private letters from Terence Rattigan. Currently enjoying the successful revival of his play Chicken Soup wit...
Listen nowin 1950s Drama, 20th-Century Drama, Playwrights, Theatre People
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Epic: a show that spans the 20th century!
25th May 2011
INTERVIEW: LUCY FOSTER and CHLOE DECHERY Diana Damian talks to the theatre-makers about their show Epic (Soho, and touring), and about Brecht, staging...
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David Slack of Manchester’s 24:7 Festival
23rd May 2011
INTERVIEW: DAVID SLACK The Executive Producer of the 24:7 Theatre Festival, an event that focuses on new writing in Manchester and is now in its eight...
Listen nowin Actors and Performers, New Writing, Playwrights, Regional Theatre
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Esther Baker describes the Synergy theatre project
20th May 2011
INTERVIEW: ESTHER BAKER The artistic director of the Synergy theatre project, which works with prisoners, ex-prisoners and young people at risk, tells...
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Controversial playwright Richard Bean: full career overview
18th May 2011
INTERVIEW: RICHARD BEAN The playwright tells Philip Fisher about his latest, One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre), an adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's...
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West End Review: April 2011 (2/2)
25th April 2011
WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Libby Purvis (Times) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribun...
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