Audio: Playwrights
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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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RSC Special: director Matthew Dunster on John Ford’s Love’s Sacrifice
25th May 2015
DIRECTOR’S TALK: MATTHEW DUNSTER The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Love’s Sacrifice talks to RSC Events Coordinator Nicky Cox about ...
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Michael Wynne on his NHS verbatim play Who Cares
7th May 2015
INTERVIEW: MICHAEL WYNNE With the National Health Service among the most hotly-contested topics of the 2015 General Election, playwright Michael Wynne...
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Creator of Return to the Forbidden Planet Bob Carlton travels back in time
4th April 2015
NTERVIEW: BOB CARLTON The writer/director of the hugely successful, Olivier award-winning musical Return to the Forbidden Planet, which takes Shakespe...
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Blanche McIntyre tours her production of Tom Stoppard’s classic Arcadia
3rd March 2015
INTERVIEW: BLANCHE McINTYRE The award-winning director talks to Heather Neill about her new production of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 masterpiece Arcadia fo...
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RSC Special: the writer and director of Oppenheimer both discuss the play
19th February 2015
WRITER AND DIRECTOR'S TALK: TOM MORTON-SMITH AND ANGUS JACKSON The writer and the director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Oppenheimer in convers...
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Tom Morton-Smith discusses his RSC bio-play Oppenheimer
17th February 2015
INTERVIEW: TOM MORTON-SMITH The playwright tells Matt Trueman about Oppenheimer, his new bio-play of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man behind the Manhat...
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Douglas McGrath talks about making Beautiful — The Carole King Story
16th February 2015
INTERVIEW: DOUGLAS McGRATH The book writer for Beautiful – The Carole King Story talks to Philip Fisher about the development of the piece, its Lond...
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Actors William Hope and Burt Caesar chat about Jefferson’s Garden
13th February 2015
INTERVIEW: WILLIAM HOPE and BURT CAESAR Two actors (Hope plays the title role and Caesar plays James, his cook, born into slavery) in Timberlake Werte...
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