Audio: New Writing
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Oladipo Agboluaje defends black British theatre
11th March 2010
BLACK VOICES: OLADIPO AGBOLUAJE The playwright, whose play Iya-Ile (The First Wife) won the 2009 Alfred Fagon Award and was nominated for an Olivier A...
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Ian Rickson on Jerusalem in the West End
22nd February 2010
INTERVIEW: IAN RICKSON The director of Jez Butterworth's smash-hit, mythic extravaganza Jerusalem (currently at the Apollo Theatre) talks to Aleks Sie...
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New writing in British theatre today
16th February 2010
NEW WRITING SPECIAL Lecture entitled Blasted and After: New Writing in British Theatre Today, about in-yer-face theatre in 1990s and its aftermath, gi...
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Playwright Michael Punter: seasonal shivers
16th December 2009
INTERVIEW: MICHAEL PUNTER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his sensational ghost story, Darker Shores (Hampstead), a seasonal Victorian tale ...
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West End Review: November 2009 (1/2)
27th November 2009
WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (Intern...
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Playwright Mike Bartlett on Cock
20th November 2009
INTERVIEW: MIKE BARTLETT The playwright talks frankly to Aleks Sierz about his new play, Cock (Royal Court). It stars Ben Whishaw, tackles sexual conf...
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Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven (2/2)
8th November 2009
FEMINIST THEATRE SPECIAL (2/2) Susan Croft, archivist and co-founder with Jessica Higgs of the Unfinished Histories project, continues the panel discu...
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Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven (1/2)
8th November 2009
FEMINIST THEATRE SPECIAL (1/2) Susan Croft, archivist and co-founder with Jessica Higgs of the Unfinished Histories project, leads the panel discussio...
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Young playwright Atiha Sen Gupta: What Fatima Did…
29th October 2009
ASIAN VOICES: ATIHA SEN GUPTA The young playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about What Fatima Did... (Hampstead), her debut play about a 17-year-old Mus...
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