Audio: Playwrights
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Director James Macdonald on Sarah Kane
23rd May 2008
INTERVIEW: JAMES MACDONALD (2/2) The director talks to Aleks Sierz about Sarah Kane's posthumous 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Court) and about his recent pro...
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Director David Farr on Pinter’s The Birthday Party
21st May 2008
INTERVIEW: DAVID FARR The artistic director of the Lyric, Hammersmith, talks to Dominic Cavendish about his staging of the fiftieth anniversary produc...
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West End Review: April 2008
25th April 2008
WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) asks David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tri...
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Interview: Peter Gill (1/2)
23rd April 2008
INTERVIEW: PETER GILL (1/2) The veteran director and playwright speaks to Aleks Sierz about his own production of his 1976 play, Small Change (current...
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Interview: Peter Gill (2/2)
23rd April 2008
INTERVIEW: PETER GILL (2/2) The veteran director and playwright speaks some more to Aleks Sierz about his own production of his 1976 play, Small Chang...
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Right to reply: defending the Polish play
20th March 2008
RIGHT TO REPLY The Soho Theatre's Paul Sirett, co-translator of Dorota Maslowska's A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, defends the play again...
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US playwright Terrence McNally visits the UK
13th March 2008
INTERVIEW: TERRENCE McNALLY The US playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about A Perfect Ganesh, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and now revived fo...
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Playwright Leo Butler on Shakespeare and new writing
4th March 2008
INTERVIEW: LEO BUTLER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his powerful new work, I'll Be the Devil (Tricycle), an RSC-commissioned response to S...
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Of plumbers and Polish playwrights
29th February 2008
INTERVIEW: DOROTA MASLOWSKA The cult 24-year-old Polish novelist, whose play A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians gets its UK premiere at Soho ...
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