Audio: 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 ...
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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...
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Playwright Alistair McDowall explores the mysterious world of Pomona
27th November 2014
INTERVIEW: ALISTAIR McDOWALL The award-winning playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his well-received imaginative new play, Pomona (Orange Tree Theat...
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Evan Placey and Esther Baker discuss Girls Like That
26th November 2014
INTERVIEW: EVAN PLACEY AND ESTHER BAKER Following Synergy’s production of Evan Placey’s play Girls Like That, the playwright and director Esther B...
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BBC Radio Four’s Kathy Clugston sings the praises of But First This
11th November 2014
INTERVIEW: KATHY CLUGSTON The BBC Radio Four Announcer and Newsreader talks to Judi Herman about writing a musical with composer Desmond O’Connor. C...
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