Audio: Playwrights
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Playwright Nick Payne discusses Constellations: quantum multiverse theory, love and honey
28th December 2012
INTERVIEW: NICK PAYNE The playwright tells Sophie Reynolds about his award-winning play Constellations, which was first produced in January 2012 at th...
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Philip Ridley’s new one is an epic fairy tale that spans 500 years
19th December 2012
INTERVIEW: PHILIP RIDLEY The polymath playwright bewitches Aleks Sierz with his description of his amazing new play, Feathers in the Snow (the last sh...
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Shakespeare’s First Acts: The Winter’s Tale
18th December 2012
SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: THE WINTER’S TALE Director Lucy Bailey tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of The Winter’s Tale, which she is cu...
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Playwright EV Crowe explores sexuality in her latest, Hero
17th December 2012
INTERVIEW: EV CROWE The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about Hero (Royal Court), her new play which examines the themes of sexual identity and courag...
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Playwright James Graham talks about his hit, This House
13th December 2012
INTERVIEW: JAMES GRAHAM The prolific young playwright talks to Dominic Cavendish about his politically minded career to-date and This House, his back...
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New writing special: David Eldridge and Duncan Macmillan discuss the Antelope group
2nd December 2012
NEW WRITING SPECIAL: THE ANTELOPES Playwrights David Eldridge and Duncan Macmillan tell Aleks Sierz about the origins and aims of the Antelopes, an in...
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Adrian and Tracie Pang make English theatre in Singapore
21st November 2012
INTERVIEW: ADRIAN AND TRACIE PANG The artistic directors of Pangdemonium Theatre (Full Monty, Closer, Spring Awakening, Swimming with Sharks) talk abo...
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RADAR Festival – Kieran Hurley: playwright?
20th November 2012
INTERVIEW: KIERAN HURLEY The writer-performer talks to Matt Trueman about his award-winning play Beats, a fable about rave culture in the mid-nineties...
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RADAR Festival – Playwright Luke Barnes on the buzz of new writing
17th November 2012
INTERVIEW: LUKE BARNES The playwright talks to Matt Trueman about discovering new writing, the process of emerging as a playwright and how his first p...
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