Audio: Playwrights
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ATC’s Ramin Gray dissects David Greig’s controversial play, The Events
21st October 2013
INTERVIEW: RAMIN GRAY Actors Touring Company’s Artistic Director, who directed The Events, David Greig’s shattering new play about the fallout fro...
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Headlong’s Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan talk Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
18th October 2013
INTERVIEW: ROBERT ICKE and DUNCAN MACMILLAN The director and playwright talk to Dominic Cavendish about their much acclaimed adaptation of George Orwe...
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Playwright Wajahat Ali gives voice to American Muslims in The Domestic Crusaders
2nd October 2013
ASIAN VOICES: WAJAHAT ALI The writer, attorney, commentator and co-host of Al Jazeera America's The Stream — a daily social media news show — talk...
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Ayub Khan-Din adapts the classic To Sir, with Love for the Royal & Derngate
13th September 2013
ASIAN VOICES: AYUB KHAN-DIN The playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about his adaptation of To Sir, with Love, based on the 1959 novel by E R Braithwait...
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Controversial theatre legend Steven Berkoff on the Edinburgh Fringe
13th August 2013
INTERVIEW: STEVEN BERKOFF In a series of thoughtful and outspoken extracts from a conversation with Dominic Cavendish in the wake of a media furore ab...
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Broadway star Seth Numrich plays opposite Kim Cattrall at the Old Vic
4th July 2013
INTERVIEW: SETH NUMRICH The Broadway star talks to Philip Fisher about his role in Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth (Old Vic), in which he pla...
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Veteran playwright Doug Lucie enjoys a revival of his Hard Feelings
26th June 2013
INTERVIEW: DOUG LUCIE The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about the current revival of his 1982 play, Hard Feelings (Finborough Theatre), a flatshare ...
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Shakespeare’s First Acts: Measure for Measure
17th June 2013
SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST ACTS: MEASURE FOR MEASURE Actor and director Brice Stratford tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of Measure for Measure, whi...
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar talks about his debut play Disgraced
21st May 2013
ASIAN VOICES: AYAD AKHTAR The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, script-writer and actor talks to Amardeep Sohi about his debut play, Disgraced, which...
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