Audio: Historical Drama
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Isobel McArthur
29th November 2023
INTERVIEW: ISOBEL MCARTHUR. Isobel McArthur is an Olivier award winning actor, director and playwright. In 2018 she created Pride and Prejudice *sort ...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Comedy, Feminism, Historical Drama, New Writing, Playwrights, Scottish Theatre
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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...
Listen nowin 20th-Century Drama, Directors, Historical Drama, Playwrights
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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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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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Playwright Tena Stivicic discusses her epic family drama 3 Winters
18th December 2014
INTERVIEW: TENA STIVICIC The award-winning playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her excellent family saga, 3 Winters (National Theatre), an epic stor...
Listen nowin Feminism, Historical Drama, International, New Writing, Playwrights
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Simon Stokes makes us shudder at the gory thrills of Grand Guignol
17th November 2014
INTERVIEW: SIMON STOKES The Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Plymouth talks to Judi Herman about his production of Karl Grose’s Grand Guignol, whi...
Listen nowin 19th-Century Drama, Directors, European Theatre, Historical Drama, Regional Theatre
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Hilary Mantel and Mike Poulton discuss putting Wolf Hall on stage for the RSC
3rd January 2014
INTERVIEW: HILARY MANTEL AND MIKE POULTON The multi-award-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies joins the experienced theatre adapter to...
Listen nowin Books, Historical Drama, Playwrights, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
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Playwright Howard Brenton on his new political play about Partition: Drawing the Line
27th December 2013
INTERVIEW: HOWARD BRENTON The political playwright talks to Judi Herman about his latest, Drawing the Line (Hampstead), which tells the turbulent stor...
Listen nowin Historical Drama, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre
