Audio: New Writing
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Playwright Neil LaBute talks about Fat Pig
28th May 2008
INTERVIEW: NEIL LABUTE The top American playwright and director talks to Philip Fisher about his controversial new play, Fat Pig (Trafalgar Studios), ...
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Director James Macdonald on Sarah Kane
23rd May 2008
INTERVIEW: JAMES MACDONALD (2/2) The director talks to Aleks Sierz about Sarah Kane's posthumous 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Court) and about his recent pro...
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Roxana Silbert on the Ravenhill epic
14th May 2008
INTERVIEW: ROXANA SILBERT The artistic director of Paines Plough new writing combo talks to Philip Fisher about Mark Ravenhill's epic 16-play cycle, S...
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Director Sacha Wares on Random
20th March 2008
INTERVIEW: SACHA WARES The director talks to Aleks Sierz about her production of debbie tucker green's latest, Random (Royal Court), and about her oth...
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Playwright Leo Butler on Shakespeare and new writing
4th March 2008
INTERVIEW: LEO BUTLER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his powerful new work, I'll Be the Devil (Tricycle), an RSC-commissioned response to S...
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Controversial playwright Fiona Evans speaks
14th February 2008
INTERVIEW: FIONA EVANS The author of the controversial play, Scarborough (Royal Court), tells Philip Fisher about her background in community theatre ...
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The Arts Council fights back
5th February 2008
ARTS COUNCIL DEBATE Barbara Matthews, director of theatre strategy at Arts Council England, defends the controversial funding cuts, emphasises the goo...
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Director Dominic Hill on A Prayer for My Daughter
5th February 2008
INTERVIEW: DOMINIC HILL The new artistic director of Edinburgh's Traverse talks to Aleks Sierz about his revival of Thomas Babe's 1978 psycho-thriller...
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Focus on dramaturgy
30th November 2007
FOCUS ON DRAMATURGY Beccy Smith of the Dramaturgs Network and Richard Shannon of Polka Theatre and the Literary Managers Forum initiate Aleks Sierz in...
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