Audio: Playwrights
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Playwright Ella Hickson discusses Oil at the Almeida
15th November 2016
INTERVIEW: ELLA HICKSON. Spanning 162 years, from 1889 to 2051, Ella Hickson’s Oil darts all over the world as it unfolds the history of the bla...
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Actor David Horovitch talks about his role in Miller’s All My Sons at the Rose Theatre
14th November 2016
INTERVIEW: DAVID HOROVITCH. The actor talks to Judi Herman about playing Joe Keller in Arthur Miller’s first big hit, All My Sons, at the Rose Thea...
Listen nowin 20th-Century Drama, Actors and Performers, American Drama, Playwrights
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Al Smith on adapting Gogol and ‘Harrogate’ at the Royal Court
18th October 2016
INTERVIEW: AL SMITH After a gap of eight years writing for television, playwright Al Smith talks Matt Trueman through his latest two plays: a radical ...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Devised Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre
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Sir Alan Ayckbourn remembers his days with Sir Donald Wolfit
13th October 2016
INTERVIEW: SIR ALAN AYCKBOURN. On the eve of the latest West End revival of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, inspired by Harwood’s years work...
Listen nowin Actors and Performers, Playwrights, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
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Playwright and author Nell Dunn in conversation about her career
22nd July 2016
INTERVIEW: NELL DUNN. Philip Fisher talks to Dunn about her career as a short story writer, novelist, screenwriter and playwright discussing highlig...
Listen nowin Feminism, Playwrights
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John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’ remembered, 60 years on
7th May 2016
INTERVIEW: CORAL ATKINS. The former actress, best known for the ITV series A Family at War, looks back at the Royal Court premiere run of John Osborne...
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Alistair McDowall strands us on Pluto in X
21st April 2016
INTERVIEW: ALISTAIR McDOWALL. Set on Pluto, where a team of British scientists are stranded out in space, cut off from mission control, Alistair McDow...
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Stuart Slade on his post-terrorist comedy BU21
20th April 2016
INTERVIEW: STUART SLADE. The emerging playwright talks to Matt Trueman about his second full-length play BU21, a piece that imagines a plane attacked ...
Listen nowin London Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre
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Eclipse’s Dawn Walton plots a Revolution Mix
29th March 2016
INTERVIEW: DAWN WALTON The artistic director of Eclipse Theatre Company Dawn Walton tells Matt Trueman about the company's attempt to bolster the stat...
Listen nowin Black Voices, Directors, New Writing, Playwrights, Regional Theatre, Theatre Buildings, Theatre People
