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INTERVIEW: APRIL DE ANGELIS The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about her new play, Jumpy (Royal Court), which is a hilarious comedy about the relationship between mothers and daughters in the new...
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BLACK VOICES: BOLA AGBAJE, JANICE OKOH and ADE SOLANKE Three British-Nigerian playwrights talk to Aleks Sierz about their latest plays — Belong (Royal Court/Tiata Fahodzi), Egusi Soup (Soho) and...
View ArticlePlaywright EV Crowe explores sexuality in her latest, Hero
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View ArticlePlaywright Nick Payne discusses Constellations: quantum multiverse theory,...
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View ArticleTheatrical review of 2012: the hits, the stinkers, the verdict
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View ArticleDesigner Lizzie Clachan uncorks the National Theatre’s Port
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View ArticleActivist playwright Anders Lustgarten challenges the ideology of austerity
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View ArticleEdinburgh Fringe 2013: Phoebe Waller-Bridge unpacks her Fleabag
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View ArticleAsian voices: actor Vincent Ebrahim on The Djinns of Eidgah
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View ArticlePaul Bhattacharjee memorial event celebrating his life and work (2/2)
PAUL BHATTACHARJEE SPECIAL (2/2) Memorial, attended by more than 100 people from the theatre industry, for actor Paul Bhattacharjee, who died on 12 July 2013. Actor Shelley King reads a poem on behalf...
View ArticlePaul Bhattacharjee memorial event celebrating his life and work (1/2)
PAUL BHATTACHARJEE SPECIAL (1/2) Memorial, attended by more than 100 people from the theatre industry, for actor Paul Bhattacharjee, who died on 12 July 2013. Introduction by Jatinder Verma of Tara...
View ArticleMax Stafford-Clark on Out of Joint’s annus horribilis
DIRECTOR’S TALK: MAX STAFFORD-CLARK Out of Joint’s Aristic Director Max Stafford-Clark talks to the Royal Court’s Literary Manager about his new book Journal of the Plague Year, part personal memoir,...
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