Audio: Playwrights
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NF Simpson special: rare interview with the playwright
6th July 2010
INTERVIEW: NF SIMPSON Extracts from a conversation with Dominic Cavendish at Simpson's home in Cornwall in which the 91-year-old 'absurdist' playwrigh...
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Howard Brenton on Anne Boleyn, and more
28th June 2010
INTERVIEW: HOWARD BRENTON The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about his three current productions: his new play, Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare's Globe), ...
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Playwright Alia Bano on Hens and Shades
17th June 2010
ASIAN VOICES: ALIA BANO The playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about her latest play, Hens, which has had a short run at the Riverside Studios before b...
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Career overview: playwright Dennis Kelly
6th June 2010
NEW WRITING: DENNIS KELLY The playwright gives a career overview to Aleks Sierz, talking about his plays, Debris (2003), Osama the Hero (2005), After ...
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Nick Grosso talks about Ingredient X
29th May 2010
INTERVIEW: NICK GROSSO The playwright talks to Philip Fisher about Ingredient X (Royal Court), his new play about the nature of addiction, and also a...
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The novelist Jim Crace reflects on Far Away
28th May 2010
FOCUS ON FAR AWAY Debates are part of the nightly format for Simon Godwin's revival of Caryl Churchill's Far Away (2000) at the Bristol Old Vic. Here ...
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Thea Sharrock on After the Dance by Rattigan
24th May 2010
INTERVIEW: THEA SHARROCK The director offers a few thoughts about playwright Terence Rattigan and his so-called lost 1939 play, After the Dance, which...
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David Lan on August Wilson, and the Young Vic
20th May 2010
INTERVIEW: DAVID LAN The Artistic Director of the Young Vic talks to Philip Fisher about reviving legendary American playwright August Wilson's Joe Tu...
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Playwright Drew Pautz explores belief and sex
17th May 2010
INTERVIEW: DREW PAUTZ The Canadian-born playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest play, Love the Sinner (National), which examines the relation...
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