Audio: New Writing
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Claire Appleby
25th March 2025
INTERVIEW: CLAIRE APPLEBY. Claire Appleby is the architecture advisor for Theatres Trust – the national advisory public body for theatres ̵...
Listen nowin Architecture, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Frank Matcham, Funding, New Writing, Theatre Buildings, Theatre History, Theatres at Risk Register, Theatres Trust
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Rufus Norris
25th March 2025
INTERVIEW: RUFUS NORRIS. As he prepares to leave his role as Director and joint CEO of the National Theatre, Rufus Norris reflects on a decade in on...
Listen nowin Artistic Director, Devised Theatre, Digital Theatre, Directors, Funding, Management, National Theatre, New Writing, Pandemic, Performance, Playwrights, Streaming, Theatre Buildings, Theatre History, Theatre Management, Touring theatre
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David Byrne
13th March 2025
INTERVIEW: DAVID BYRNE. In 2024, David Byrne left the small New Diorama Theatre in London – which he’d transformed into a powerhouse of ...
Listen nowin Actors and Performers, Artistic Director, New Writing, Performance, Playwrights, Royal Court
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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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Chris Bush
16th November 2023
INTERVIEW: CHRIS BUSH. Chris Bush is an award-winning playwright and lyricist. Her work ranges from huge community-led pieces to musicals and politica...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Musicals, New Writing, Playwrights, Theatre People
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Mark Ravenhill
25th March 2022
INTERVIEW: MARK RAVENHILL. Mark Ravenhill exploded on to the theatre scene in 1996 at the Royal Court with his uncompromising play about young people...
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Lisa Spirling
2nd February 2022
INTERVIEW: LISA SPIRLING. Sam Marlowe met Lisa Spirling, artistic director of Theatre503, in Battersea, South London, at a time of exciting redevelop...
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Elizabeth Newman
2nd April 2020
INTERVIEW: ELIZABETH NEWMAN. Elizabeth arrived at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 2018 after eight years at Bolton’s Octagon, five as associate di...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Devised Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre, Scottish Theatre
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Pamela Carter and Stewart Laing
21st November 2019
INTERVIEW: PAMELA CARTER AND STEWART LAING. Playwright Pamela Carter and director-designer Stewart Laing have worked together on a string of ground-br...
Listen nowin Design, Directors, Experimental Theatre, New Writing, Playwrights, Scottish Theatre
