Audio: New Writing
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Stella Feehily on her Dreams of Violence
29th July 2009
INTERVIEW: STELLA FEEHILY (1/2) The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her current play, Dreams of Violence (Out of Joint/Soho), a comedy about fam...
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David Edgar on plays and playwriting
6th July 2009
INTERVIEW: DAVID EDGAR The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his new book, How Plays Work (Nick Hern), which discusses the role of the audience an...
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Che Walker on Been So Long and The Frontline
24th June 2009
INTERVIEW: CHE WALKER The playwright-turned-lyricist and director talks to Aleks Sierz about his new version of Been So Long, a raunchy play with musi...
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Playwright Tanika Gupta career overview
7th June 2009
ASIAN VOICES: TANIKA GUPTA The playwright gives a career overview to Aleks Sierz, talking about her plays, Voices on the Wind (National, 1998), The Wa...
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Playwright Matt Charman at the National
4th June 2009
INTERVIEW: MATT CHARMAN The award-winning playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his current show, The Observer (National Theatre), which is directed b...
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Playwright April De Angelis on Amongst Friends
29th May 2009
INTERVIEW: APRIL DE ANGELIS The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her latest black comedy, Amongst Friends (currently at the Hampstead), set in a ...
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West End Review: May 2009 (2/2)
22nd May 2009
WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) invites critics David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (Interna...
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John Osborne: the lost plays rediscovered
21st May 2009
OSBORNE SPECIAL Jamie Andrews, Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library, tells Aleks Sierz about his discovery of two 1950s plays by...
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Matthew Dunster on writing, directing and acting
24th March 2009
INTERVIEW: MATTHEW DUNSTER The playwright, director and actor talks to Philip Fisher about the return to the Young Vic of his 2008 play, You Can See t...
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