Audio: Political Theatre
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Kwame Kwei-Armah talks about One Night in Miami at the Donmar
15th November 2016
INTERVIEW: KWAME KWEI-ARMAH. 20-minute excerpt from an interview with Dominic Cavendish conducted for the Daily Telegraph in which the playwright and...
Listen nowin American Drama, Black Voices, New Writing, Political Theatre
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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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Pauline Malefane talks about A Man of Good Hope at the Young Vic
2nd November 2016
INTERVIEW: PAULINE MALEFANE. Pauline Malefane, performer and musical director with Isango Ensemble, talks about her musical play, A Man of Good Hope,...
Listen nowin Black Voices, International, Musicals, Political Theatre, South African Theatre
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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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Belarus Free Theatre’s Maria Alyokhina and Natalia Kaliada discuss Burning Doors
12th October 2016
INTERVIEW: MARIA ALYOKHINA. The performer and activist, Maria Alyokhina, talks to Judi Herman about the difference between taking people by surprise ...
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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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Belarus Free Theatre (part 2), Staging a Revolution & staging King Lear
14th November 2015
INTERVIEW: VLADIMIR SHCHERBAN. The director and one of the driving forces behind the Belarus Free Theatre talks to Heather Neill (with the help of in...
Listen nowin European Theatre, Political Theatre, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
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Belarus Free Theatre: 10 years of dramatic, democratic action
14th November 2015
INTERVIEW: NATALIA KALIADA AND NICOLA KHALEZIN (with Sasha, interpreter) talk to Heather Neill about Belarus Free Theatre, the company’s formida...
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Chris Goode talks through Men In The Cities
23rd July 2015
NTERVIEW: CHRIS GOODE Chris Goode's roving camera monologue Men In the Cities follows an assortment of men through London on the day after Drummer Lee...
Listen nowin Gay Drama, New Writing, Performance, Playwrights, Political Theatre
