Audio: Playwrights
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Focus on contemporary Arabic drama
27th February 2008
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE Penny Black, founder-member of the Middle East Dramatic Arts Forum, reports on its recent symposium, which included contribution...
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West End Review: February 2008
22nd February 2008
WEST END REVIEW Brief Encounter (Haymarket Cinema), The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (National) and Speed the Plow (Old Vic) are assessed by Mat...
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Controversial playwright Fiona Evans speaks
14th February 2008
INTERVIEW: FIONA EVANS The author of the controversial play, Scarborough (Royal Court), tells Philip Fisher about her background in community theatre ...
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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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