Episodes
The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. To listen on Spotify click here. This conversation has been transcribed and can be accessed here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/podcasts/playwrights-podcast-transcript-of-series-6-episode-4-caro-black-tam-talks-to-omar-elerian/ Full introduction by Omar Elerian: Caro is a Bachelor of Psychology with experience in social research in public policies. They have...
Published 08/09/22
The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. To listen on Spotify click here. This conversation has been transcribed and can be accessed here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/podcasts/playwrights-podcast-transcript-of-series-6-episode-3-nazareth-hassan-talks-to-omar-elerian/ Full introduction by Omar Elerian: So, today I’m with Nazareth Hassan. Nazareth Hassan is an interdisciplinary artist working in...
Published 08/02/22
The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To listen on Apple Podcasts click here. To listen on Spotify click here. This conversation has been transcribed and can be accessed here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/podcasts/playwrights-podcast-transcript-of-series-6-episode-2-pablo-manzi-talks-to-omar-elerian/ Full introduction by Omar Elerian: Pablo Manzi has developed most of his work as a playwright with the Chile-based collective BONOBO...
Published 07/26/22
The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To listen on Apple Podcasts click here. To listen on Spotify click here. This conversation has been transcribed and can be accessed here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/podcasts/playwrights-podcast-transcript-of-series-6-episode-1-amir-gudarzi-talks-to-omar-elerian/ Full introduction by Omar Elerian: Hi my name is Omar Elerian and I’m a freelance theatre maker & director of Italian Palestinian...
Published 07/18/22
The following content may contain strong language. Click here to book tickets for The Song Project (Aug 17- 28 Aug). Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. To listen on Spotify click here. To read the transcript of this episode, click here. Full introduction by Simon Stephens: It’s one of the anomalies of the United Kingdom’s position as an island nation that not only does it seem to me to assume that every other country in the world is spending...
Published 08/05/21
Series 5 of the Royal Court Playwright’s Podcast was released in partnership with Berliner Theatertreffen Stückemarkt. The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. To listen on Spotify click here. This conversation has been transcribed and can be accessed here:...
Published 05/18/21
Series 5 of the Royal Court Playwright’s Podcast was released in partnership with Berliner Theatertreffen Stückemarkt. The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. To listen on Spotify click here. This conversation has been transcribed and can be accessed here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/podcasts/playwrights-podcast-transcript-of-series-5-episode-4-sam-max-talks-to-simon-stephens/ You can watch a...
Published 05/18/21
Series 5 of the Royal Court Playwright’s Podcast was released in partnership with Berliner Theatertreffen Stückemarkt. The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. To listen on Spotify click here. This conversation has been transcribed and can be accessed here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/podcasts/playwrights-podcast-transcript-of-series-5-episode-3-eve-leigh-talks-to-simon-stephens/ You can watch a...
Published 05/18/21
Series 5 of the Royal Court Playwright’s Podcast was released in partnership with Berliner Theatertreffen Stückemarkt. The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. To listen on Spotify click here. This conversation has been transcribed and can be accessed here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/podcasts/playwrights-podcast-transcript-of-series-5-episode-2-laurence-dauphinais-talks-to-simon-stephens/  You can...
Published 05/18/21
Series 5 of the Royal Court Playwright’s Podcast was released in partnership with Berliner Theatertreffen Stückemarkt. The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. To listen on Spotify click here. This conversation has been transcribed and can be accessed here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/podcasts/playwrights-podcast-transcript-of-jude-christian-talking-to-simon-stephens/ You can watch a livestreamed...
Published 05/18/21
The audio play of A History of Water in the Middle East by Sabrina Mahfouz directed by Stef O’Driscoll is available to listen to now until Saturday 30 January 2021. Audiences can listen to the content for free but are invited to pay-what-you-can with all proceeds going directly to the brilliant team who made the work including all the freelance artists. Visit paypal.me/AHistoryOfWater to make a contribution. 
Published 12/18/20
The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. To listen on Spotify click here. Full introduction by Simon Stephens: I first met the playwright, poet, performer, presenter, screenwriter, anthologist and librettist Sabrina Mahfouz in the Houses of Parliament. In 2015 we had been invited by the theatre company Paines Plough to talk about the political nature of and political representation in British...
Published 01/24/20
The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. To listen on Spotify click here. Full introduction by Simon Stephens: One of the challenges of hosting these podcasts is perfecting the art of concision and distillation. There are writers I have had the honour of interviewing whose careers have spanned four, five or even six decades and composing a pithy introduction or marshalling a career interview into...
Published 01/17/20
The following content may contain strong language. Click here to return to the main podcast page. To subscribe via iTunes click here. Full introduction by Simon Stephens: David Ireland is a man whose family names makes writing short essays about his paradoxical national identity, biography and work tremendously complicated. He was born and raised in Belfast at the start of the 80s. He trained, as a young man, as an actor in Glasgow at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. And it was...
Published 01/10/20