Audio: Playwrights
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Playwright Tanika Gupta adapts Great Expectations
17th March 2011
ASIAN VOICES: TANIKA GUPTA The playwright tells Suman Bhuchar about her new adaptation of Great Expectations (Watford Palace and English Touring Theat...
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Nick Dear on adapting Frankenstein for the National
11th March 2011
INTERVIEW: NICK DEAR The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about the work involved in adapting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for director Danny Boyle's ...
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Roundtable discussion of Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe
10th March 2011
FOCUS ON GOTCHA Post-show discussion about enduring lessons to be learned from Barrie Keeffe's school rebellion drama of 1976, Gotcha, in which an agg...
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Angle teams up with Bush Theatre to find new plays
7th March 2011
INTERVIEW: CHARLOTTE GWINNER and ROY WILLIAMS The director and founder of East London's Angle theatre company and the playwright and supporter tell He...
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Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan on Moment
1st March 2011
INTERVIEW: DEIRDRE KINAHAN The Irish playwright and artistic director of Tall Tales theatre company talks to Amardeep Sohi about her latest, Moment (B...
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Actor Andrew Sheridan discusses his award-winning debut play
28th February 2011
INTERVIEW: ANDREW SHERIDAN The actor and playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his powerful playwriting debut, Winterlong (Soho Theatre), which was jo...
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Kali Theatre Company celebrates 21 years of new writing
28th February 2011
Asian Voices: Janet Steel, artistic director of Kali, talks to Suman Bhuchar about the touring company, which specialises in new writing by women from...
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A lost Rattigan play directed by a friend of the playwright
24th January 2011
INTERVIEW: ADRIAN BROWN The writer and director tells Carole Woddis about Terence Rattigan's lost play, Less Than Kind (an early version of Love in Id...
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Jeremy Dyson talks about Twisted Tales
17th January 2011
FOCUS ON DAHL The playwright Simon Stephens, artistic associate at the Lyric Hammersmith, joins writer Jeremy Dyson (League of Gentlemen; Ghost Storie...
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