Audio: Playwrights
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Ace-satirist Alistair Beaton laughs at power
28th March 2007
INTERVIEW: ALISTAIR BEATON The award-winning satirist and playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about King of Hearts (Out of Joint at the Hampstead Theatre)...
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Aalst: A Belgian town, a terrible murder, a theatre show
5th March 2007
INTERVIEW: POL HEYVAERT The director and writer talks about Aalst, the National Theatre of Scotland/Victoria touring co-production which examines the ...
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Writer and actor Tim Crouch on An Oak Tree
23rd February 2007
INTERVIEW: TIM CROUCH The writer and actor talks to Aleks Sierz about his innovative play, An Oak Tree (Soho), in which he is joined on stage by a dif...
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The Mark Shenton Show focuses on Harold Pinter
21st February 2007
THE MARK SHENTON SHOW Focuses on Harold Pinter, with critics Michael Billington and Alastair Macaulay reviewing Pinter's People (Haymarket) and The Du...
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Playwright Jack Thorne on sex and form
16th February 2007
INTERVIEW: JACK THORNE The playwright, whose Fanny and Faggot (Finborough) and Stacy (Arcola) deal with the controversial issues of child murderers an...
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An Evening with Playwright Michael Frayn
8th February 2007
AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL FRAYN At an event at the Hampstead Theatre, the playwright and writer introduces his new book, The Human Touch: Our Part in th...
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New Year New York: Julian Ovenden
28th December 2006
NEW YORK SPECIAL The British actor Julian Ovenden, who joined Nathan Lane in a revival of Simon Gray's Butley at the Booth Theater New York, talks to ...
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Playwright Ryan Craig on Holocaust denial
11th December 2006
INTERVIEW: RYAN CRAIG The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his new Holocaust denial play, The Glass Room, now at the Hampstead Theatre, and discu...
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Debate: a crisis in new writing?
24th November 2006
DEBATE: A CRISIS IN NEW WRITING? Round-table featuring Paines Plough director Roxana Silbert, young writers James Graham and Duncan Macmillan, Guardia...
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