Audio: Adaptation
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Al Smith on adapting Gogol and ‘Harrogate’ at the Royal Court
18th October 2016
INTERVIEW: AL SMITH After a gap of eight years writing for television, playwright Al Smith talks Matt Trueman through his latest two plays: a radical ...
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Walter Meierjohann on directing The Emperor
29th September 2016
Walter Meierjohann directs Kathryn Hunter in The Emperor, Colin Teevan’s adaptation of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński’s book. Hun...
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Kathryn Hunter talks about playing eleven characters in The Emperor
29th September 2016
Kathryn Hunter plays eleven of the faithful servants of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in The Emperor, Colin Teevan’s adaptation of Polish j...
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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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