Audio: Playwrights
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Eclipse’s Dawn Walton plots a Revolution Mix
29th March 2016
INTERVIEW: DAWN WALTON The artistic director of Eclipse Theatre Company Dawn Walton tells Matt Trueman about the company's attempt to bolster the stat...
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Rebecca Lenkiewicz talks about 18th-century ‘witchcraft’
12th January 2016
INTERVIEW: REBECCA LENKIEWICZ. Judi Herman talks to the playwright whose Jane Wenham, the Witch of Walkern is based on the true story of a woman trie...
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Deborah Bruce’s The Distance is revived at the Orange Tree Theatre
25th November 2015
NTERVIEW: DEBORAH BRUCE The playwright and director talks to Aleks Sierz about the restaging of her well-received new play, The Distance, which has ju...
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Cordelia Lynn discusses Lela & Co.
8th October 2015
INTERVIEW: CORDELIA LYNN The playwright talks about her Royal Court debut play, Lela & Co, an account of a young woman trafficked into a war-torn coun...
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Rory Mullarkey discusses his Globe Oresteia
26th September 2015
INTERVIEW: RORY MULLARKEY. The playwright and translator, whose version of The Oresteia is currently running at Shakespeare’s Globe, talks to He...
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Anna Ziegler discusses her hit play Photograph 51
20th September 2015
INTERVIEW: ANNA ZIEGLER. The American playwright, in London to attend the West End premiere of her play about the British scientist Rosalind Franklin...
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Chris Goode talks through Men In The Cities
23rd July 2015
NTERVIEW: CHRIS GOODE Chris Goode's roving camera monologue Men In the Cities follows an assortment of men through London on the day after Drummer Lee...
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Gary Owen picks apart Violence and Son
23rd July 2015
INTERVIEW: GARY OWEN Welsh playwright Gary Owen discusses his play Violence and Son with Matt Trueman. The play follows Rick, known locally as Violenc...
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Tim Crouch revisits An Oak Tree
14th July 2015
INTERVIEW: TIM CROUCH As his seminal piece for two performers An Oak Tree is revived at the National Theatre to mark its tenth anniversary, the playwr...
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