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S9 Ep3: Nina Segal and Melanie Wilson talk to Susan Wokoma
Together with director Katie Mitchell, Nina Segal and Melanie Wilson make up the team co-creators behind Cow | Deer, a new experiment in performance,...
S9 Ep2: Daniel Evans, Jo McInnes, and Madeleine Potter talk to Susan Wokoma
Daniel Evans, Jo McInnes and Madeleine Potter make up the cast of the original production of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis, which opened at the Royal Co...
S9 Ep1: Billy Barrett, Ellice Stevens, and Frew talk to Susan Wokoma
Billy Barret, Ellice Stevens and Frew make up the team behind After the Act. Exploring a defining moment in LGBTQ+ history, After the Act played at t...
S7 Ep1: Dirty Hare talk to Susan Wokoma
Dirty Hare are an award-winning theatre company, made up of director and facilitator Rachel Lemon, historian, musician and writer Lydia Higman and act...
S3 Ep1: Jez Butterworth talks to Simon Stephens
Jez Butterworth hasn’t written prolifically for theatre. In fact he has written seven stage plays in nearly twenty five years but three of them have b...
BONUS TRACK! S2 Ep16: Simon Stephens talks to Anoushka Warden and Emily Legg
I first met Simon Stephens in 2011. I was an intern here at the Court and was tanning in the garden in my lunchbreak. Simon was here with his play Was...
S2 Ep15: Timberlake Wertenbaker talks to Simon Stephens
The plays of Timberlake Wertenbaker have been a presence in British theatre since the turn of the 1980s. Since that time she has produced work that is...
S2 Ep14: Chris Thorpe talks to Simon Stephens
There are very few writers I have interviewed or will interview in these podcasts whose curriculum vitae is longer than mine. And certainly none of th...
S2 Ep13: Alecky Blythe talks to Simon Stephens
Few playwrights can claim to have defined a theatrical form or process with quite the same conviction as Alecky Blythe.
S2 Ep12: Leo Butler talks to Simon Stephens
I was the Writers Tutor here at the Royal Court Theatre in 2001 when Leo Butler, fresh from a beautiful elegiac theatre debut in the 2000 Young Writer...
S2 Ep11: Penelope Skinner talks to Simon Stephens
The experience of watching a play that seems in some way to speak directly or resonate in a way that feels disarmingly personal has lead many playwrig...
S2 Ep10: Roy Williams talks to Simon Stephens
When Roy Williams’ first play No Boys Cricket Club launched him into the London theatre world in 1996 it was celebrated for the audacity and range of...
S2 Ep9: EV Crowe talks to Simon Stephens
There is a steel and intelligence at the heart of the plays of EV Crowe that has defined her as one of the most arresting of the exciting group of wri...
S2 Ep8: Nathaniel Martello-White talks to Simon Stephens
In some ways Nathaniel Martello-White is, of all the writers I’ve spoken to on these podcasts, the least experienced. He has only had two plays produc...
S2 Ep7: Anupama Chandrasekhar talks to Simon Stephens
Anupama Chadrasekhar was born and raised in Chennai in India’s East Coat, in the heart of the Bay of Bengal. She started writing for theatre in the se...
S2 Ep 6: Mike Bartlett talks to Simon Stephens
I’m not sure I remember the very first time I met Mike Bartlett. I know he was a participant in one of the Young Writers Groups that I ran at the Roya...
S2 Ep5: Abi Morgan talks to Simon Stephens
Abi Morgan is one of the most prolific and celebrated dramatists of her generation. While she has reached international acclaim for her startling tele...
S3 Ep2: Laura Wade talks to Simon Stephens
Laura Wade's plays return to formal inventiveness with wit and imagination. This inventiveness is counterpointed by an insistent fascination with Engl...
S3 Ep3: David Eldridge talks to Simon Stephens
A prolific and successful television and radio writer, David Eldridge has defined himself as a dramatist with force and clarity, humanity and capacity...
S3 Ep4: Peter Gill talks to Simon Stephens
There are a handful of figures in the history of the Royal Court Theatre that define the place. They carved the path that, whether they are aware of i...
S3 Ep5: Winsome Pinnock talks to Simon Stephens
The debt that recent years of black British playwrights owes to Winsome Pinnock has been celebrated and is unarguable. While upholding and championing...
S3 Ep6: Zinnie Harris talks to Simon Stephens
Zinnie Harris has been a presence in the new writing scenes of her home country of Scotland and in London alike. In that time, no writer has drawn so...
S4 Ep1: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti talks to Simon Stephens
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's 2004 production of Bezhiti (Dishnour) led to threats of violence against her and her family. It also has distracted many people...
S4 Ep2: Christopher Hampton talks to Simon Stephens
Oscar winner Christopher Hampton is a name that has appeared in many, many, many places. In 1966, England won the world cup and Hampton became the you...
S4 Ep3: Stef Smith talks to Simon Stephens
Over the last decade, Stef Smith has become one of the UK’s most urgent theatre makers. She is restless, not just in the face of her world’s deep grai...
S4 Ep4: David Ireland talks to Simon Stephens
David Ireland is a man whose family names makes writing short essays about his paradoxical national identity, biography and work tremendously complica...
S4 Ep5: Jack Thorne talks to Simon Stephens
Jack Thorne has written the most popular play of the century, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. He has written for television, most recently with His...
S4 Ep6: Sabrina Mahfouz talks to Simon Stephens
Playwright, poet, performer, presenter, screenwriter, anthologist and librettist Sabrina Mahfouz has written and produced up to twenty plays in the la...
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S5 Ep1: Jude Christian talks to Simon Stephens
Over the course of the last decade Jude Christian has established herself as one of the most exciting directors, dramaturgs, and theatre makers in Bri...
S5 Ep2: Laurence Dauphinais talks to Simon Stephens
Quebecoise musician, artist, director, actor and writer Laurence Dauphinais has a body of work that is defined by its diversity. Her beautiful piece o...
S5 Ep3: Eve Leigh talks to Simon Stephens
Eve Leigh is a writer of range and conviction. Her theatre is built on an understanding of the importance of the presence of the audience in her work....
S5 Ep4: Sam Max talks to Simon Stephens
Sam Max is in the early years of their working life but judging from the level of interest their work has provoked and from the depth and clarity of i...
S5 Ep5: Ta-Nia (aka Talia Paulette Oliveras & Nia Farrell) talk to Simon Stephens
The theatre making duo made up of director Talia Paulette Oliveras and writer Nia Farrell, collectively known as TaNia, met while studying experimenta...
Dutch Singer-Songwriter, Performer & Composer Wende talks to Simon Stephens
For twenty years Wende has been one of the most celebrated singers and performers in the whole of Europe. She released her first album in 2004 as a gr...
S6 Ep1: Amir Gudarzi talks to Omar Elerian
Amir Gudarzi is a writer born in Tehran, Iran, in 1986. Due to censorship his plays were only shown in private circles. And since 2009, Amir has lived...
S6 Ep2: Pablo Manzi talks to Omar Elerian
Pablo Manzi has developed most of his work as a playwright with the Chile-based collective BONOBO. His texts have been presented in festivals in Japan...
S6 Ep3: Nazareth Hassan talks to Omar Elerian
Nazareth Hassan is an interdisciplinary artist working in writing, performance, music, sound, video & photography based in Brooklyn, New York.
S6 Ep4: Caro Black Tam talks to Omar Elerian
Caro is a Bachelor of Psychology with experience in social research in public policies. As a playwright, their plays include "Asfixia" and "Tomás". Th...
S7 Ep2: Sabrina Ali talks to Susan Wokoma
Sabrina Ali is a British Somali writer and actor, who is driven by a passion for sharing authentic and representative stories. Sabrina’s most recent p...