Audio: New Writing
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Alistair McDowall strands us on Pluto in X
21st April 2016
INTERVIEW: ALISTAIR McDOWALL. Set on Pluto, where a team of British scientists are stranded out in space, cut off from mission control, Alistair McDow...
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Stuart Slade on his post-terrorist comedy BU21
20th April 2016
INTERVIEW: STUART SLADE. The emerging playwright talks to Matt Trueman about his second full-length play BU21, a piece that imagines a plane attacked ...
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Jim and James Cartwright talk about Raz and the youth of today
8th April 2016
INTERVIEW: JIM CARTWRIGHT AND JAMES CARTWRIGHT. The playwright and his actor son James talk to Heather Neill about the former's acclaimed monologue a...
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Eclipse’s Dawn Walton plots a Revolution Mix
29th March 2016
INTERVIEW: DAWN WALTON The artistic director of Eclipse Theatre Company Dawn Walton tells Matt Trueman about the company's attempt to bolster the stat...
Listen nowin Black Voices, Directors, New Writing, Playwrights, Regional Theatre, Theatre Buildings, Theatre People
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‘We’ve been Zellered’… interview with director Laurence Boswell
21st February 2016
INTERVIEW: LAURENCE BOSWELL. The director, who runs the internationalist programme at the Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio in Bath, which currentl...
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Deborah Bruce’s The Distance is revived at the Orange Tree Theatre
25th November 2015
NTERVIEW: DEBORAH BRUCE The playwright and director talks to Aleks Sierz about the restaging of her well-received new play, The Distance, which has ju...
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Poetry of a play-goer: ‘Theatreland’
3rd November 2015
POETRY SPECIAL: Sophie Reynolds introduces readings from ‘Theatreland’ – her new collection of poetry inspired by watching theatre i...
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Cordelia Lynn discusses Lela & Co.
8th October 2015
INTERVIEW: CORDELIA LYNN The playwright talks about her Royal Court debut play, Lela & Co, an account of a young woman trafficked into a war-torn coun...
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Matthew Dunster talks about Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen
8th October 2015
INTERVIEW: MATTHEW DUNSTER The director tells Matt Trueman about working on Martin McDonagh's dark comic thriller Hangmen, a farce set on the day that...
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