Audio: Playwrights
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Lisa Spirling
2nd February 2022
INTERVIEW: LISA SPIRLING. Sam Marlowe met Lisa Spirling, artistic director of Theatre503, in Battersea, South London, at a time of exciting redevelop...
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TheatreVoice Archive: Mustapha Matura
9th April 2020
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: MUSTAPHA MATURA AND NICOLAS KENT. When Mustapha Matura died in October 2019, he had become one of the most important dramatists in ...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Black Voices, Directors, Irish Drama, Playwrights
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Elizabeth Newman
2nd April 2020
INTERVIEW: ELIZABETH NEWMAN. Elizabeth arrived at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 2018 after eight years at Bolton’s Octagon, five as associate di...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Devised Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre, Scottish Theatre
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Pamela Carter and Stewart Laing
21st November 2019
INTERVIEW: PAMELA CARTER AND STEWART LAING. Playwright Pamela Carter and director-designer Stewart Laing have worked together on a string of ground-br...
Listen nowin Design, Directors, Experimental Theatre, New Writing, Playwrights, Scottish Theatre
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Sarah Frankcom
14th November 2019
INTERVIEW: SARAH FRANKCOM. As she finishes her tenure at the Manchester Royal Exchange, Sarah Frankcom looks back over her decade in the artistic dire...
Listen nowin Directors, Education, New Writing, Playwrights, Regional Theatre, Theatre Buildings, Youth Theatre
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Lucy Kirkwood
12th July 2019
INTERVIEW: LUCY KIRKWOOD. Following Chimerica’s outing as a Channel 4 miniseries, British playwright Lucy Kirkwood talks to Dominic Cavendish ab...
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Lynn Nottage
30th May 2019
INTERVIEW: LYNN NOTTAGE. Ahead of Sweat‘s transfer to the West End, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage talks to New Yor...
Listen nowin American Drama, Black Voices, New Writing, New York and Broadway, Playwrights
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TheatreVoice Archive: Ian Rickson
23rd May 2019
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: IAN RICKSON. To mark the approaching tenth anniversary of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, another chance to listen to its direct...
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TheatreVoice Archive: Tracy Letts
25th April 2019
INTERVIEW: TRACY LETTS. With August: Osage County running at the National Theatre, the American playwright Tracy Letts sat down with Philip Fisher in ...
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