Audio: Playwrights
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Clean Break: Playwright Rebecca Prichard on Dream Pill
12th November 2010
INTERVIEW: REBECCA PRICHARD The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about her new play, Dream Pill (Soho Theatre), on the subject of child trafficking, ...
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Playwright Dan Rebellato: Chekhov in Hell
9th November 2010
INTERVIEW: DAN REBELLATO The playwright and academic talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest successful play, Chekhov in Hell (Drum Theatre, Plymouth), ...
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Laura Wade, Simon Stephens join roundtable on Blasted
8th November 2010
SARAH KANE SPECIAL Post-show discussion involving playwrights Simon Stephens, Laura Wade and David Watson about the influence of Kane's 1995 debut pla...
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Playwright Steve Waters on plays and playwriting
4th November 2010
INTERVIEW: STEVE WATERS The playwright and teacher instructs Aleks Sierz in the mysterious arts of playwriting, and talks him through his new book, Th...
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Legendary South African playwright Athol Fugard interviewed
26th October 2010
INTERVIEW: ATHOL FUGARD Ahead of the UK premiere of his latest play, The Train Driver, at Hampstead Theatre, South Africa's leading playwright, now 78...
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Noel Coward at the Rose Theatre, Kingston
8th October 2010
INTERVIEW: STEPHEN UNWIN The artistic director of the Rose Theatre in Kingston talks to Aleks Sierz about his well-received revival of Noel Coward's 1...
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Playwright Lou Ramsden on her dog-fight drama
1st October 2010
INTERVIEW: LOU RAMSDEN The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her latest play, Breed (Theatre503), a terrific story about a dog-fighting family, an...
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Playwright Nell Leyshon: Bedlam at the Globe
16th September 2010
INTERVIEW: NELL LEYSHON The playwright talks to Heather Neill about her latest play, Bedlam (Shakespeare's Globe), the first by a female writer at thi...
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Playwright Moira Buffini updates Greek tragedy
3rd September 2010
INTERVIEW: MOIRA BUFFINI The playwright talks to Heather Neill about her latest play, Welcome to Thebes (National), which takes the stories of Antigon...
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