Category Archives: Close_up

Helen Benedict’s play about women in war gets first UK outing

Posted on March 3, 2015 by 17Percent

Hannah Roe interviews Helen Benedict, award-winning journalist, novelist and writer of The Lonely Soldier Monologues, coming to the Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, in May. Continue reading →

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Karis Halsall interview

Posted on January 12, 2015 by 17Percent

Interview with Karis Halsall, performance poet, playwright and Literary Associate at Theatre503. Continue reading →

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Passionate, poetic, political playwright: interview with Sarah Hehir

Posted on November 19, 2014 by 17Percent

Sarah Hehir is a Medway based poet and playwright whose first radio play, Bang Up, won the BBC Writers Prize in 2013. For the past two years she has collaborated with Sam Hall, 17Percent’s founder, to write short plays which … Continue reading →

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New interview with Katherine Rodden

Posted on February 6, 2013 by 17Percent

A new interview with Katherine Rodden. Continue reading →

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Women on the verge of a nervous breakthrough: we’re coming out from the sidelines

Posted on January 7, 2013 by 17Percent

New interviews in the Close-Up section with Leila Khan, Katherine Mitchell and Julia Streets. Continue reading →

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New Close-Up Q+A with Anya Reiss

Posted on November 27, 2012 by 17Percent

Read our new Q+A with Anya Reiss. Continue reading →

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