Audio: Playwrights
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Michael Wynne on his NHS verbatim play Who Cares
7th May 2015
INTERVIEW: MICHAEL WYNNE With the National Health Service among the most hotly-contested topics of the 2015 General Election, playwright Michael Wynne...
Listen nowin New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre, Verbatim Drama
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Creator of Return to the Forbidden Planet Bob Carlton travels back in time
4th April 2015
NTERVIEW: BOB CARLTON The writer/director of the hugely successful, Olivier award-winning musical Return to the Forbidden Planet, which takes Shakespe...
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Blanche McIntyre tours her production of Tom Stoppard’s classic Arcadia
3rd March 2015
INTERVIEW: BLANCHE McINTYRE The award-winning director talks to Heather Neill about her new production of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 masterpiece Arcadia fo...
Listen nowin 20th-Century Drama, Directors, Historical Drama, Playwrights
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RSC Special: the writer and director of Oppenheimer both discuss the play
19th February 2015
WRITER AND DIRECTOR'S TALK: TOM MORTON-SMITH AND ANGUS JACKSON The writer and the director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Oppenheimer in convers...
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Tom Morton-Smith discusses his RSC bio-play Oppenheimer
17th February 2015
INTERVIEW: TOM MORTON-SMITH The playwright tells Matt Trueman about Oppenheimer, his new bio-play of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man behind the Manhat...
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Douglas McGrath talks about making Beautiful — The Carole King Story
16th February 2015
INTERVIEW: DOUGLAS McGRATH The book writer for Beautiful – The Carole King Story talks to Philip Fisher about the development of the piece, its Lond...
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Actors William Hope and Burt Caesar chat about Jefferson’s Garden
13th February 2015
INTERVIEW: WILLIAM HOPE and BURT CAESAR Two actors (Hope plays the title role and Caesar plays James, his cook, born into slavery) in Timberlake Werte...
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Raine special: Moses and Nina Raine dissect his new play, Donkey Heart
18th January 2015
INTERVIEW: MOSES and NINA RAINE Donkey Heart by Moses Raine, directed by his sister Nina Raine, has transferred to the Trafalgar Studios from the Old ...
Listen nowin Directors, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre, Russian Drama
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Playwright Tena Stivicic discusses her epic family drama 3 Winters
18th December 2014
INTERVIEW: TENA STIVICIC The award-winning playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her excellent family saga, 3 Winters (National Theatre), an epic stor...
Listen nowin Feminism, Historical Drama, International, New Writing, Playwrights
