Audio: Adaptation
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Thusitha Jayasundera, actress in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, speaks
3rd February 2015
ASIAN VOICES: THUSITHA JAYASUNDRA The Sri Lankan actress, based in the UK, talks to Suman Bhuchar about appearing as the crippled Fatima, a pivotal ro...
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Zabarjad Salam, dialect coach on Behind the Beautiful Forevers, speaks
4th January 2015
ASIAN VOICES: ZABARJAD SALAM The dialect coach on Behind the Beautiful Forevers at the National Theatre talks to Suman Bhuchar about how she helped Da...
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Suzanne Andrade of 1927 introduces Golem to the world
28th December 2014
INTERVIEW: SUZANNE ANDRADE The co-founder, with Paul Barritt, of 1927 theatre company, and writer and director of Golem at the Young Vic, talks to Jud...
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Mike Poulton talks about his career as an adaptor of neglected classics
17th December 2013
INTERVIEW: MIKE POULTON The playwright responsible for the adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool currently impressing the critics at the Old Vi...
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Headlong’s Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan talk Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
18th October 2013
INTERVIEW: ROBERT ICKE and DUNCAN MACMILLAN The director and playwright talk to Dominic Cavendish about their much acclaimed adaptation of George Orwe...
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Ayub Khan-Din adapts the classic To Sir, with Love for the Royal & Derngate
13th September 2013
ASIAN VOICES: AYUB KHAN-DIN The playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about his adaptation of To Sir, with Love, based on the 1959 novel by E R Braithwait...
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Playwright Simon Stephens on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
19th March 2013
INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS The award-winning playwright chats to Aleks Sierz about his superb adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel, The Curious Incident o...
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A Christmas Carol adapted by Dominic Gerrard and directed by Tim Carroll
22nd November 2012
INTERVIEW: TIM CARROLL and DOMINIC GERRARD The director and actor talk to Heather Neill about their bicentennial one-man production of Dickens’s A C...
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The Young Vic’s David Lan on staging Wild Swans
20th April 2012
INTERVIEW: DAVID LAN The artistic director of the Young Vic talks to Mary Mazzilli about the making of Wild Swans, the first stage adaptation of the 1...
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