Audio tagged with: new writing
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Playwright Leo Butler on Shakespeare and new writing
4th March 2008
INTERVIEW: LEO BUTLER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his powerful new work, I'll Be the Devil (Tricycle), an RSC-commissioned response to S...
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Controversial playwright Fiona Evans speaks
14th February 2008
INTERVIEW: FIONA EVANS The author of the controversial play, Scarborough (Royal Court), tells Philip Fisher about her background in community theatre ...
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Tim Fountain: playwriting and sex, sex, sex
12th February 2008
INTERVIEW: TIM FOUNTAIN The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest book, So You Want To Be a Playwright? (Nick Hern), creative writing, lite...
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Dominic Dromgoole on the new season at Shakespeare’s Globe
8th February 2008
SHAKESPEARE: DOMINIC DROMGOOLE The artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe tells Heather Neill about the 2008 season, directing Lear and why this uni...
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The Arts Council fights back
5th February 2008
ARTS COUNCIL DEBATE Barbara Matthews, director of theatre strategy at Arts Council England, defends the controversial funding cuts, emphasises the goo...
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Director Dominic Hill on A Prayer for My Daughter
5th February 2008
INTERVIEW: DOMINIC HILL The new artistic director of Edinburgh's Traverse talks to Aleks Sierz about his revival of Thomas Babe's 1978 psycho-thriller...
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Director Paul Higgins talks to Philip Fisher
26th November 2007
INTERVIEW: PAUL HIGGINS The director talks to Philip Fisher about his early career in TV and film, his experience of new writing on the London Fringe,...
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Playwright David Greig on his Damascus
30th July 2007
INTERVIEW: DAVID GREIG The Scottish playwright talks to Dominic Cavendish about Damascus (Traverse), one of his three Edinburgh Festival plays this ye...
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Playwright Mike Bartlett talks to Andrew Haydon
25th May 2007
INTERVIEW: MIKE BARTLETT The playwright talks to Andrew Haydon, theatre editor of Culture Wars, about his 40-minute debut, My Child (Royal Court), and...
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