Audio: New Writing
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Playwright David Eldridge goes Monsterist with Market Boy
9th June 2006
INTERVIEW: DAVID ELDRIDGE The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about Market Boy, his raucous tribute to Romford Market and the 1980s, a monster play th...
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American playwright Christopher Shinn’s Dying City
18th May 2006
INTERVIEW: CHRISTOPHER SHINN The playwright discusses his latest play, Dying City, at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs - about America, Iraq and New Y...
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Bush supremo Mike Bradwell advocates new writing
5th May 2006
INTERVIEW: MIKE BRADWELL The artistic director of the Bush theatre in West London looks back on 10 years at the helm of London's small but mighty new ...
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Playwright Simon Stephens: Motortown
28th April 2006
INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS The Olivier Award-winning playwright, whose complex 'moral chaos of England' drama, Motortown, is on at the Royal Court, tal...
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West End Review: April 2006
7th April 2006
WEST END REVIEW Smaller (Lyric), Burn/ Chatroom/ Citizenship (National), and The Cut (Donmar). Michael Billington, Alastair Macaulay and Heather Neill...
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Radical playwright Trevor Griffiths revived
21st February 2006
INTERVIEW: TREVOR GRIFFITHS The radical playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his past work and three short plays - Thermidor, Apricots and Camel Stat...
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Promising playwright Laura Wade interviewed
16th February 2006
INTERVIEW: LAURA WADE The winner of the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award, talks to Aleks Sierz about her Breathing Corpses, Colder than...
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Howard Brenton’s The Romans in Britain revived
19th January 2006
INTERVIEW: HOWARD BRENTON On the eve of a major revival of The Romans in Britain at Sheffield Crucible, Aleks Sierz talks to the playwright about his ...
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Provocations: What Happened to Anger in British Theatre?
11th January 2006
DEBATE: WHAT HAPPENED TO ANGER IN BRITISH THEATRE? Mike Bradwell (Bush), Anthony Clark (Hampstead) and Jonathan Lloyd (Soho) are asked: where's all th...
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