Playwrights in Conversation: Recent Episodes
National Theatre
In this collection, playwrights take to the National Theatre stage to offer an insight into their work, featuring Alan Bennett, Tom Stoppard, Tena Štivičić, Simon Stephens, and more.
Lorraine Hansberry's Literary Executor and Director of her Literary Trust, Joi Gresham, joins director Yaël Farber and dramaturg Drew Lichtenberg to discuss the playwright’s work and legacy, and this new production of her play, Les Blancs.
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/les-blancs
LesBlancs
This is a recording of a live platform event.
Director Ian Rickson and writer/actor Wallace Shawn discuss the play, Evening at the Talk House.
EveningattheTalkHouse
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/evening-at-the-talk-house
Director Nadia Fall and playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker discuss the new production of Our Country's Good.
This is a recording of a live platform event.
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/our-countrys-good
OurCountrysGood
Director Ned Bennett and playwright Alistair McDowall talk to Dan Rebellato about the production, Pomona.
This is a recording of a live platform event.
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/pomona
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The director and writer discuss their new production, People, Places and Things.
This is a recording of a live platform event.
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/people-places-and-things
PeoplePlacesThings
The director talks about his new version of Turgenev’s play, Three Days in the Country.
Chaired by Rachel Cooke.
ThreeDaysintheCountry
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/three-days-in-the-country
The writer and director discuss The Red Lion, Patrick Marber's haunting and humorous new play about the dying romance of the great English game.
Find out more about The Red Lion and book tickets: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-red-lion
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Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis and director Indhu Rubasingham discuss this new production of The Motherf**ker with the Hat with Paul Gambaccini.
The director and writer discuss the new production, Rules for Living, with Rachel Cooke.
The director and adapter talk about their production of Dara.
Find out more about Dara: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/dara
The perennial playwright reflects on his career with Nicholas Hytner, discussing work from 1991 to the present day.
The director and writer discuss the new play, The Hard Problem.
Find out more about The Hard Problem: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-hard-problem
Alan Bennett joins Nicholas Hytner to discuss his earliest work, their many collaborations and Bennett's illustrious career as a playwright.
Director Polly Findlay and playwright Bryony Lavery discuss their new version of R L Stevenson's adventure story with Fiona Mountford.
Find out more and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/treasure-island
From the remnants of monarchy to Communism, democracy, war and the EU: Croatia 1945–2011. The Kos family argue, adapt, fall in and out of love. Tena Štivičić talks to Susannah Tresilian about 3 Winters, her new play for the National Theatre directed by Howard Davies.
The writer and director discuss the new trilogy, the epic scale of the production and audience reactions to the play. This event was chaired by Al Senter.
This is a recording of a live Platform event from September 2014.
Enda Walsh talks to Dan Rebellato about writing and directing Ballyturk.
This is a recording of a live Platform event from September 2014.
Director and writer Neil Bartlett talks to Michael Coveney about his new novel, The Disappearance Boy, set in the world of 1950s theatre - what attracted him to this period, the research and how it reflects his own interest in theatre.
This is a recording of a live Platform event from August 2014.
Alan Ayckbourn talks to Angus MacKechnie about his career, focusing on his work at the National Theatre whilst Peter Hall was Artistic Director and his recently revived play A Small Family Business.
Playwright Polly Stenham talks to Emma Freud about her career, her work at at the Royal Court and her new play Hotel playing at the National Theatre.
This is a recording of a live Platform event from June 2014.
Tony award-winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang talks to Mark Shenton about Yellow Face, which questions what race really means in our society.
Yellow Face plays until 24 May: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/yellow-face
This is a recording of a live Platform event from May 2014.
The writer and director talk about this new version of Erich Kästner's story, adapting it for the Olivier Theatre and working with three casts of child actors.
This is a recording of a live Platform event from December 2013.
The director, Marianne Elliott, and playwright, Simon Stephens, discuss the 2013 production of Port and reflect on the original production in 2002 with interviewer Rachel Cooke.
Playwright Howard Barker talks to Mark Brown about his career and the National Theatre's 2012 production of Scenes From An Execution.
Stephen Beresford talks to Matt Wolf about his career and The Last of the Haussmans, his playwriting debut at the National Theatre. This is a recording of a Platform event from August 2012.
The writer Alecky Blythe, composer Adam Cork and director Rufus Norris discuss their award winning work, London Road, with Dan Rebellato.
Enda Walsh discusses his play Misterman, fresh from its New York run, with Dan Rebellato.
Director and playwright discuss Travelling Light with Sarah Hemming.
This is a recording of a live Platform event.