Audio: New Writing
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Controversial playwright Anthony Neilson’s best work
13th April 2007
INTERVIEW: ANTHONY NEILSON The controversial playwright tells Aleks Sierz about the National Theatre of Scotland's revival of his 2004 play, The Wonde...
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Lisa Goldman arrives at the Soho Theatre
30th March 2007
INTERVIEW: LISA GOLDMAN The new artistic director of London's Soho Theatre outlines her first season, which kicks off with a new play by Philip Ridley...
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Ace-satirist Alistair Beaton laughs at power
28th March 2007
INTERVIEW: ALISTAIR BEATON The award-winning satirist and playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about King of Hearts (Out of Joint at the Hampstead Theatre)...
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Writer and actor Tim Crouch on An Oak Tree
23rd February 2007
INTERVIEW: TIM CROUCH The writer and actor talks to Aleks Sierz about his innovative play, An Oak Tree (Soho), in which he is joined on stage by a dif...
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Playwright Jack Thorne on sex and form
16th February 2007
INTERVIEW: JACK THORNE The playwright, whose Fanny and Faggot (Finborough) and Stacy (Arcola) deal with the controversial issues of child murderers an...
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Paul Robinson and Tim Roseman get to grips with Theatre 503
19th January 2007
INTERVIEW: PAUL ROBINSON and TIM ROSEMAN The new artistic directors of Theatre 503 in Battersea talk to Culture Wars critic Andrew Haydon about life o...
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Playwright Ryan Craig on Holocaust denial
11th December 2006
INTERVIEW: RYAN CRAIG The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his new Holocaust denial play, The Glass Room, now at the Hampstead Theatre, and discu...
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Debate: a crisis in new writing?
24th November 2006
DEBATE: A CRISIS IN NEW WRITING? Round-table featuring Paines Plough director Roxana Silbert, young writers James Graham and Duncan Macmillan, Guardia...
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Playwright Kay Adshead combines feminism with dreaming
20th October 2006
INTERVIEW: KAY ADSHEAD The political playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her new play, Bones, and argues that theatre is a great place for poetry an...
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