Audio: Playwrights
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Playwright Tracy Letts on August: Osage County
28th November 2008
INTERVIEW: TRACY LETTS The American writer and actor talks to Philip Fisher about the inspiration behind his multi-award-winning Broadway hit, August:...
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Adriano Shaplin of the Riot Group talks science
23rd November 2008
INTERVIEW: ADRIANO SHAPLIN The American playwright and director talks about his first commission for the Royal Shakespeare Company: The Tragedy of Tho...
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Playwright Alexis Zegerman on her debut
6th November 2008
INTERVEW: ALEXIS ZEGERMAN The actor and playwright chats to Aleks Sierz about her full-length debut, Lucky Seven (Hampstead), which was inspired by th...
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Enda Walsh from Disco Pigs to Hunger
3rd November 2008
INTERVIEW: ENDA WALSH (2/2) The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his career, from the classic Disco Pigs (Corcadorca, 1996) through to his curren...
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Enda Walsh and The Walworth Farce
3rd November 2008
INTERVIEW: ENDA WALSH (1/2) The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his scintillating 2006 play for Druid, The Walworth Farce (now at the National),...
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Playwright, director Peter Gill recalls Brecht in 1962
1st November 2008
INTERVIEW: PETER GILL The playwright and director talks to Heather Neill about Apprenticeship (Oberon), a new book reflecting on a long-lost diary tha...
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Playwright Simon Stephens on Harper Regan
20th October 2008
INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS (2/2) The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about the genesis, theme and form of his other 2008 play, Harper Regan (National),...
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Playwright Simon Stephens on Pornography
20th October 2008
INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS (1/2) The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest play, Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse), which was a major hi...
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Playwright Fin Kennedy on new writing
16th October 2008
INTERVIEW: FIN KENNEDY (2/2) The playwright discusses the new writing scene, as well as his work with young people, especially Mehndi Night (Mulberry ...
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