Audio: Playwrights
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David Edgar: the King James Bible and the English Reformation
29th March 2011
INTERVIEW: DAVID EDGAR The playwright, whose play about the making, 400 years ago, of the King James Bible, Written on the Heart, will premiere at the...
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Director David Thacker explores the work of Arthur Miller
24th March 2011
INTERVIEW: DAVID THACKER The artistic director of the Octagon Theatre Bolton talks to David Chadderton on the telephone about his current revival of A...
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Vivienne Franzmann and Simon Stephens: Mogadishu
21st March 2011
FOCUS ON MOGADISHU Post-show discussion between artistic associate Simon Stephens and debut playwright Vivienne Franzmann about her Mogadishu (Lyric H...
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Aleks Sierz discusses his new book: Rewriting the Nation
17th March 2011
NEW WRITING SPECIAL Philip Fisher talks to critic and theatreVOICE co-editor Aleks Sierz about his new book, Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Tod...
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Playwright Tanika Gupta adapts Great Expectations
17th March 2011
ASIAN VOICES: TANIKA GUPTA The playwright tells Suman Bhuchar about her new adaptation of Great Expectations (Watford Palace and English Touring Theat...
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Nick Dear on adapting Frankenstein for the National
11th March 2011
INTERVIEW: NICK DEAR The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about the work involved in adapting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for director Danny Boyle's ...
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Roundtable discussion of Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe
10th March 2011
FOCUS ON GOTCHA Post-show discussion about enduring lessons to be learned from Barrie Keeffe's school rebellion drama of 1976, Gotcha, in which an agg...
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Angle teams up with Bush Theatre to find new plays
7th March 2011
INTERVIEW: CHARLOTTE GWINNER and ROY WILLIAMS The director and founder of East London's Angle theatre company and the playwright and supporter tell He...
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Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan on Moment
1st March 2011
INTERVIEW: DEIRDRE KINAHAN The Irish playwright and artistic director of Tall Tales theatre company talks to Amardeep Sohi about her latest, Moment (B...
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