Audio: Playwrights
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Tim Fountain: playwriting and sex, sex, sex
12th February 2008
INTERVIEW: TIM FOUNTAIN The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest book, So You Want To Be a Playwright? (Nick Hern), creative writing, lite...
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Willy Russell: Stags and Hens and Liverpudlian theatre
6th February 2008
INTERVIEW: WILLY RUSSELL The legendary playwright talks to Dominic Cavendish about his rewritten classic Stags and Hens (Royal Court Liverpool), and m...
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Focus on dramaturgy
30th November 2007
FOCUS ON DRAMATURGY Beccy Smith of the Dramaturgs Network and Richard Shannon of Polka Theatre and the Literary Managers Forum initiate Aleks Sierz in...
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Director Paul Higgins talks to Philip Fisher
26th November 2007
INTERVIEW: PAUL HIGGINS The director talks to Philip Fisher about his early career in TV and film, his experience of new writing on the London Fringe,...
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Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall on his new play
27th September 2007
INTERVIEW: LEE HALL Best known as the creator of Billy Elliot, the playwright joins Max Roberts, artistic director of Live Theatre, Newcastle, to talk...
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Robin Soans discusses celebrity casualties and verbatim drama
19th September 2007
INTERVIEW: ROBIN SOANS The actor and writer talks to Philip Fisher about his verbatim theatre piece, Life after Scandal, at the Hampstead Theatre. Cel...
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Royal Court: new international season
3rd September 2007
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE: ELYSE DODGSON The head of the Royal Court's international department talks to Aleks Sierz about that theatre's upcoming season,...
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Edinburgh 2007: review of the festival
17th August 2007
EDINBURGH 2007 REVIEW The Bacchae (King's), Subway (Drill Hall), The Walworth Farce (Traverse), Mile End (Pleasance) and many more. Philip Fisher chat...
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Playwright David Greig on his Damascus
30th July 2007
INTERVIEW: DAVID GREIG The Scottish playwright talks to Dominic Cavendish about Damascus (Traverse), one of his three Edinburgh Festival plays this ye...
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