Audio: Playwrights
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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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Beautiful Burnout: playwright Bryony Lavery punches hard
27th August 2010
INTERVIEW: BRYONY LAVERY The playwright talks about her critically acclaimed boxing play (Frantic Assembly/National Theatre of Scotland) to Carole Wod...
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Edinburgh 2010: extraordinary David Leddy and Sub Rosa
24th August 2010
EDINBURGH 2010 Writer and director David Leddy, of Fire Exit Ltd, talks to Matt Boothman about his critically acclaimed show, Sub Rosa (Hill Street Th...
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Edinburgh 2010: Freefall at the Traverse
18th August 2010
EDINBURGH 2010 Irish playwright Michael West discusses collaborative creation in the context of his Freefall (Traverse), a hit about the uncertainties...
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Mike Bartlett on Earthquakes in London
19th July 2010
INTERVIEW: MIKE BARTLETT A series of extracts from a conversation with Dominic Cavendish about Earthquakes in London (Headlong), the playwright's debu...
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NF Simpson special: rare interview with the playwright
6th July 2010
INTERVIEW: NF SIMPSON Extracts from a conversation with Dominic Cavendish at Simpson's home in Cornwall in which the 91-year-old 'absurdist' playwrigh...
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Howard Brenton on Anne Boleyn, and more
28th June 2010
INTERVIEW: HOWARD BRENTON The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about his three current productions: his new play, Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare's Globe), ...
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