Playwright's Podcast

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Some of the world's leading playwrights talk about their lives, their work, and their relationships with the Royal Court. Guests include Jez Butterworth, April de Angelis, Rachel De-lahey, Tanika Gupta, David Hare, Robert Holman, Dennis Kelly, Alistair McDowall, Anthony Neilson, Joe Penhall, Lucy Prebble, Anya Reiss, Polly Stenham and Enda Walsh.

  1. 09/02/2025

    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, in which using only sound and no words, a quartet of performers and Foley artists evoke the lives of two animals – a cow and a deer.

    29 min

  2. 09/02/2025

    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 Court in the year 2000.  Daniel, Jo and Madeleine, reprised their roles in 4.48 Psychosis here at the Royal Court, 25 years on from its debut, directed by original director James Macdonald. The production ran here until 5 July, before embarking on a run at the RSC.

    17 min

  3. 09/02/2025

    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 the Royal Court following an acclaimed national tour, in May 2025.

    30 min

  4. 04/04/2025

    S8 Ep5: Joel Tan talks to Susan Wokoma

    Joel Tan has been described as one of the most exciting Singaporean playwrights of his generation. In Singapore his plays have been produced by leading theatre companies including Checkpoint Theatre and Wild Rice. Recently, his work in the UK includes the Living Newspaper at the Royal Court, as well as Love in the Time of the Ancients, and No Particular Order. Joel's play Scenes from a Repatriation runs at the Royal Court Theatre this April.

    29 min

  5. 02/27/2025

    S8 Ep4: Khawla Ibraheem talks to Susan Wokoma

    Khawla Ibraheem is a playwright, actor and director based in the Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights. She is a regular at many theatres in Palestine and outside of Palestine she has collaborated with many theatres and institutions, including as a fellow at the McDowell, and as an artist in residence at the Sundance Theatre Lab. Khawla's one-woman play, A Knock on the Roof, opens at the Royal Court later this month.

    39 min

  6. 01/30/2025

    S8 Ep3: Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman talk to Susan Wokoma

    Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman make up the award winning theatre company Kandinsky, who make collaborative new work. Their latest project, More Life, has been developed at the New Diorama, National Theatre Studios and the Royal Court, and will debut at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in February 2025.

    31 min

  7. 12/20/2024

    S8 Ep2: Amy Jephta talks to Susan Wokoma

    Amy Jephta is a South African playwright, screenwriter and actor based in Cape Town. She was named one of the Mail and Guardian’s 200 Top Young South Africans in 2013 and is the recipient of South Africa’s highest art accolade - The Standard Bank Young Artist Award. Amy’s play, A Good House, runs at the Royal Court in January 2025.

    33 min

  8. 12/05/2024

    S8 Ep1: Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee talks to Susan Wokoma

    Sutara Gayle is a writer and performer, also known as the award-winning, South London reggae artist Lorna Gee. Last year, her one woman play The Legends of Them, played a highly acclaimed run at Brixton House, produced by the Hackney Showroom. This Christmas it will run in the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs.

    28 min
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Some of the world's leading playwrights talk about their lives, their work, and their relationships with the Royal Court. Guests include Jez Butterworth, April de Angelis, Rachel De-lahey, Tanika Gupta, David Hare, Robert Holman, Dennis Kelly, Alistair McDowall, Anthony Neilson, Joe Penhall, Lucy Prebble, Anya Reiss, Polly Stenham and Enda Walsh.

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