Audio: Playwrights
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Playwright Chris Hannan: new play and career overview (1/2)
13th August 2011
INTERVIEW: CHRIS HANNAN (1/2) The award-winning Scottish playwright discusses his latest play, The God of Soho (Shakespeare's Globe), which is an extr...
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Playwright Chris Hannan: new play and career overview (2/2)
13th August 2011
INTERVIEW: CHRIS HANNAN (2/2) The award-winning Scottish playwright discusses his latest play, The God of Soho (Shakespeare's Globe), which is an extr...
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Director Max Stafford-Clark revisits Caryl Churchill’s wonderful Top Girls
11th August 2011
FOCUS ON TOP GIRLS Author Kate Mosse introduces a pre-show talk, 'Directing Top Girls: Then and Now', which features director Max Stafford-Clark discu...
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Co-creator of Yes, Prime Minister Jonathan Lynn explores comedy
7th August 2011
INTERVIEW: JONATHAN LYNN The actor, director and co-writer, with Antony Jay, of the hit West End comedy show, Yes, Prime Minister (Apollo) - an update...
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Palestinian director and writer Amir Nizar Zuabi adapts Kafka
22nd July 2011
INTERVIEW: AMIR NIZAR ZUABI The director and writer, whose Haifa-based Palestinian ShiberHur theatre company is currently performing an adaptation of ...
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Playwright Penelope Skinner on The Village Bike
20th July 2011
INTERVIEW: PENELOPE SKINNER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her new Royal Court play, The Village Bike, which explores the sex lives of a co...
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Actor Danny Webb on Wesker hit revival
27th June 2011
INTERVIEW: DANNY WEBB The actor discusses Dominic Cooke's well-received revival of Arnold Wesker's seminal 1958 play, Chicken Soup with Barley (the fi...
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Lindsay Posner, director, on staging Simon Gray’s Butley
25th June 2011
INTERVIEW: LINDSAY POSNER The director talks about his current West End revival of the late Simon Gray's Butley. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.
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Arnold Wesker reads two letters from Terence Rattigan
18th June 2011
WESKER EXCLUSIVE Sir Arnold Wesker reads private letters from Terence Rattigan. Currently enjoying the successful revival of his play Chicken Soup wit...
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